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I guess gen z will be immune them, with all their HPV vaccines.



Yes but they'll get other things technically because of it.

For example, you're more likely to get dementia if you had the HPV vaccine vs if you never had HPV in the first place. Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.. but for all the health conscious talk you see, you rarely see that recommended these days.


Nah, i got HPV, the bad version, the one that create "huge buttons" (don't have the english word) on your thighs for 3-5 years from a girl who was basically a virgin, but was a huge swimmer/fencer/horserider. We don't know where it came from, and i was abstinent for like 2 years prior to that.


Ive got some unfortunate news for you....


> Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.

It's better to have no partner at all than to hope for the above condition to be true.


For 16-19 year olds, it's not that hard. Even at 19, I'd say about 15-20% of women haven't had a partner yet. For males it's closer to 40% these days.




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