Cosigned what steelyEyes says - Nice girls can get HPV too. Males can go around and screw anything they can get their hands on, and they are "Studs."

Girls can have ONE boyfriend, and take the risk of cervical cancer as a result. This makes them "Hootchy Mamas."

The reality of HPV is that something like 2/3's of adults have been exposed. Only the women run the risk of cancer. Make the vaccine available, and give parents information - INFORMED denial / consent is better than outright ignorance any day.

I don't think any kind of vaccine should be given to anyone's child without parental consent, but parents need to get real and understand the world our kids live in today - and C'mon. We're not so far from that world ourselves - I remember the 70's, and I don't recall too many Puritans at my high school.

As it stands today, there is no reason that any woman in a developed nation should ever die from cervical cancer - but cervical dysplasia is a common condition, and that is the result of HPV (Cervical dysplasia is abnormal cells / precancerous cells of the cervix.)

So, the "Stud" gets to go around and infect as many women as he wants to and is essentially asymptomatic (Unless, god willing, he develops genital warts.) Otherwise, some girl who has had ONE boyfriend can develop cancer as a result of choosing a partner who has HPV, because he's such a stud... or even because he had ONE other girlfriend before her. Even a "Nice Boy" can infect a "Nice Girl." It's a disease, not a social condition.

There's dreamland, and then there's the world we really live in.