Hooray for science!
HOORAY FOR SEX!
Lying appears to be a right wing value they embrace; they believe that lying is acceptable if it accomplishes their goals --- and their goals and values are failures.
Those who promote ignorance only sex ed believe that if you don't tell kids about sex, they won't learn bad information elsewhere on their own, and they won't be able to figure it out by themselves either. Those who opposed the HPV vaccine would prefer to risk illness than prevent it, if sex might be involved.
Who opposes the HPV vaccine? The Family Research Council - the same people who supported genital electroshock to un-gay people; the Concerned Women for America -- who aren't concerned about disease, just concerned that people might be having sex - they want to stop that; and the ignorant, failure promoting Abstinence Clearing House; and assorted right wing religious web sites that promote the same fact-averse error-filled medically inaccurate information adored by the right.
The right just LOVES being wrong, when they're being ideologically right wing. It doesn't matter who dies - so long as they hang on tight to their ideology, and the heck with facts. The right doesn't believe facts, they don't trust facts; so this new study will be wasted on the right. They will simply grab onto their wrong ideas even harder because of being challenged by facts.
But people also get HPV - both boys and girls, men and women -- without having sex, although it can be and often is sexually transmitted. So long as sex MIGHT be involved, vaccination is a taboo.
If sex weren't possibly involved, I doubt the right would give a healthy goddamn about the vaccination.
That is of course, ridiculous, and very, very wrong. Abstinence only sex ed doesn't stop kids from having sex, it doesn't discourage kids from having sex. Abstinence only sex ed is a total failure at preventing or reducing the incidence of unwanted teen pregnancies and the transmission of STDs. Those countries which mandate the religious right-driven fallacies about abstinence only have the highest rates of both teen pregnancies and STDs.
Abstinence only sex ed, as education, is a total failure. It is a right wing obsession; they push it every chance they get, because they're phobic about sex. They see sex as dirty, not as an expression of love or joy or delight in a partner.
They see it as a forbidden thing for which people are punished, punished with pregnancy, punished with disease, punished with guilt and unhappiness.
That is because they define sex badly; it is a bad holdover from Puritanism.
Minnesota embarrassment, ignorance on a stick Michele Bachmann, famously misrepresented the facts about HPV Vaccination when she claimed it would lead to mental retardation. Apparently, mental retardation is something Bachmann views as another one of those punishments from God for being bad (like having sex, or preparing to have sex at some point in your later life, because the intent is as bad as the action for the radical religious right).
So it should come as no surprise that the HPV vaccine is a success, and that the current Puritans were wrong about it leading to rampant promiscuity and earlier sex. They'd rather people DIED than had sex, those 'value' Right wing nuts. They have such BAD values, such FAILED ideas, because they have the wrong fears. Disease is a bacterial or viral process; it is not a punishment from God for having sex -- and being protected from disease is not the reason people have sex (or don't have sex).
BOTH boys and girls should be vaccinated, because both can contract HPV.
From MSN and NBC news:
The HPV vaccine does not send teenage girls out seeking sex, contrary to the protests of some parents
who worried about immunizing young girls against a sexually transmitted virus, researchers reported Monday.
While several surveys of teen girls suggested they would not feel free to have sex just because they’d been vaccinated against the virus, this is the first one to make sure that girls were not, in fact, more likely to engage in sexual activity after vaccination.
“We wanted to do an objective clinical survey using data,” said Robert Bednarczyk of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and Emory University in Atlanta, who led the study.
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the main cause of cervical cancer, as well as genital warts. It can also cause other cancers, including cancer of the mouth, head and neck, penis and anus. The vaccine protects against the main cancer-causing strains.
“In 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all US girls aged 11 to 12 receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, with catch-up vaccination recommended through age 26, and administration permitted as young as 9 years,” Bednarczyk’s team wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics.
Many parents were dubious about vaccinating such young girls against a sexually transmitted disease. A few, and some religious groups, said the vaccine would even encourage sexual activity.
But HPV is extremely common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million people become newly infected each year. For most, the virus clears their system on its own, but at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women are infected at some point in their lives. Some estimates range as high as 80 percent.
“About one-third of 14- to 19-year-olds are positive for at least one HPV strain,” Bednarczyk said. And a study published in August found some girls were infected even if they'd never had sex.
Cervical cancer kills 3,870 women a year in the United States and 300,000 globally. There are two commercial vaccines -- Merck’s Gardasil and its rival, GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix. The idea behind starting to vaccinate 11- and 12-year-olds is to allow full immunity to build long before they ever have any kind of sexual contact for the first time.
It is possible that girls might be confused about the protection provided by the vaccine, Bednarczyk said. They might mistakenly believe it protects them against all sexually transmitted diseases, or even against pregnancy. So he sought cold, hard data on what girls actually did after they got vaccinated.
Bednarczyk and colleagues went through the medical records of nearly 1,400 girls who got either the HPV or another immunization such as the meningitis vaccine. They followed them for three years after vaccination.
“We looked for the first occurrence of any testing or diagnoses related to pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections or any counseling on contraceptive use,” Bednarczyk said in a telephone interview.
“We got up to age 16 which, in some surveys, is where you start seeing more sexual activity among adolescents.”
There were no differences between girls who got HPV vaccine and girls who got other vaccines but not HPV, the team found. “Overall, what we found through the whole follow-up study was among 1,400 girls only eight actual cases of either pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection,” Bednarczyk said.
The rates were identical in the HPV vaccine and non-HPV-vaccine groups. “We feel this is reassuring,” he said. “We can start to move beyond these concerns.”
Rates of sexual activity are going down among school-aged children. The CDC says while 39 percent of all 15- to 17-year-olds had had sex in 1995, the rate fell to 27 percent by 2010. But around 3 percent of girls report they started having sex before the age of 13.
HOORAY FOR SEX!
Lying appears to be a right wing value they embrace; they believe that lying is acceptable if it accomplishes their goals --- and their goals and values are failures.
Those who promote ignorance only sex ed believe that if you don't tell kids about sex, they won't learn bad information elsewhere on their own, and they won't be able to figure it out by themselves either. Those who opposed the HPV vaccine would prefer to risk illness than prevent it, if sex might be involved.
Who opposes the HPV vaccine? The Family Research Council - the same people who supported genital electroshock to un-gay people; the Concerned Women for America -- who aren't concerned about disease, just concerned that people might be having sex - they want to stop that; and the ignorant, failure promoting Abstinence Clearing House; and assorted right wing religious web sites that promote the same fact-averse error-filled medically inaccurate information adored by the right.
The right just LOVES being wrong, when they're being ideologically right wing. It doesn't matter who dies - so long as they hang on tight to their ideology, and the heck with facts. The right doesn't believe facts, they don't trust facts; so this new study will be wasted on the right. They will simply grab onto their wrong ideas even harder because of being challenged by facts.
But people also get HPV - both boys and girls, men and women -- without having sex, although it can be and often is sexually transmitted. So long as sex MIGHT be involved, vaccination is a taboo.
If sex weren't possibly involved, I doubt the right would give a healthy goddamn about the vaccination.
That is of course, ridiculous, and very, very wrong. Abstinence only sex ed doesn't stop kids from having sex, it doesn't discourage kids from having sex. Abstinence only sex ed is a total failure at preventing or reducing the incidence of unwanted teen pregnancies and the transmission of STDs. Those countries which mandate the religious right-driven fallacies about abstinence only have the highest rates of both teen pregnancies and STDs.
Abstinence only sex ed, as education, is a total failure. It is a right wing obsession; they push it every chance they get, because they're phobic about sex. They see sex as dirty, not as an expression of love or joy or delight in a partner.
They see it as a forbidden thing for which people are punished, punished with pregnancy, punished with disease, punished with guilt and unhappiness.
That is because they define sex badly; it is a bad holdover from Puritanism.
Minnesota embarrassment, ignorance on a stick Michele Bachmann, famously misrepresented the facts about HPV Vaccination when she claimed it would lead to mental retardation. Apparently, mental retardation is something Bachmann views as another one of those punishments from God for being bad (like having sex, or preparing to have sex at some point in your later life, because the intent is as bad as the action for the radical religious right).
So it should come as no surprise that the HPV vaccine is a success, and that the current Puritans were wrong about it leading to rampant promiscuity and earlier sex. They'd rather people DIED than had sex, those 'value' Right wing nuts. They have such BAD values, such FAILED ideas, because they have the wrong fears. Disease is a bacterial or viral process; it is not a punishment from God for having sex -- and being protected from disease is not the reason people have sex (or don't have sex).
BOTH boys and girls should be vaccinated, because both can contract HPV.
From MSN and NBC news:
HPV vaccine doesn't spur teen sex, study finds
Carissa Ray / msnbc.com
The HPV vaccine doesn't encourage girls to have sex, a new study says.
who worried about immunizing young girls against a sexually transmitted virus, researchers reported Monday.While several surveys of teen girls suggested they would not feel free to have sex just because they’d been vaccinated against the virus, this is the first one to make sure that girls were not, in fact, more likely to engage in sexual activity after vaccination.
“We wanted to do an objective clinical survey using data,” said Robert Bednarczyk of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and Emory University in Atlanta, who led the study.
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the main cause of cervical cancer, as well as genital warts. It can also cause other cancers, including cancer of the mouth, head and neck, penis and anus. The vaccine protects against the main cancer-causing strains.
“In 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all US girls aged 11 to 12 receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, with catch-up vaccination recommended through age 26, and administration permitted as young as 9 years,” Bednarczyk’s team wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics.
Many parents were dubious about vaccinating such young girls against a sexually transmitted disease. A few, and some religious groups, said the vaccine would even encourage sexual activity.
But HPV is extremely common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million people become newly infected each year. For most, the virus clears their system on its own, but at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women
are infected at some point in their lives. Some estimates range as high as 80 percent.“About one-third of 14- to 19-year-olds are positive for at least one HPV strain,” Bednarczyk said. And a study published in August found some girls were infected even if they'd never had sex.
Cervical cancer kills 3,870 women a year in the United States and 300,000 globally. There are two commercial vaccines -- Merck’s Gardasil and its rival, GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix. The idea behind starting to vaccinate 11- and 12-year-olds is to allow full immunity to build long before they ever have any kind of sexual contact for the first time.
It is possible that girls might be confused about the protection provided by the vaccine, Bednarczyk said. They might mistakenly believe it protects them against all sexually transmitted diseases, or even against pregnancy. So he sought cold, hard data on what girls actually did after they got vaccinated.
Bednarczyk and colleagues went through the medical records of nearly 1,400 girls who got either the HPV or another immunization such as the meningitis vaccine. They followed them for three years after vaccination.
“We looked for the first occurrence of any testing or diagnoses related to pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections or any counseling on contraceptive use,” Bednarczyk said in a telephone interview.
“We got up to age 16 which, in some surveys, is where you start seeing more sexual activity among adolescents.”
There were no differences between girls who got HPV vaccine and girls who got other vaccines but not HPV, the team found. “Overall, what we found through the whole follow-up study was among 1,400 girls only eight actual cases of either pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection,” Bednarczyk said.
The rates were identical in the HPV vaccine and non-HPV-vaccine groups. “We feel this is reassuring,” he said. “We can start to move beyond these concerns.”
Rates of sexual activity are going down among school-aged children. The CDC says while 39 percent of all 15- to 17-year-olds had had sex in 1995, the rate fell to 27 percent by 2010. But around 3 percent of girls report they started having sex before the age of 13.
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