More on HPV
Nov. 5th, 2005 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosen...and if I didn't manage to get you angry about the fanatics who think the HPV vaccination is a bad idea, maybe this will.
At times it goes a bit over the top - I don't think we have to put women on quite that much of a pedestal in order to see why protecting them from HPV is important - but I suspect a lot of that is the poster's anger speaking. Some things deserve anger.
If you believe premarital sex is always a bad idea, I'm not going to think less of you for holding that belief. You can live by it, you can attempt to persuade your children of it, and while they remain children you can even use some degree of parental coercion to prevent them from having it.
But the idea of deliberately endangering a child in the hope that it'll deter them from having sex (fat chance!) is nothing more than a genteel, First-World version of the African custom of 'circumcising' one's daughters with bits of broken glass. But at least in Africa, the perpetrators have to witness the blood and pain first-hand.
At times it goes a bit over the top - I don't think we have to put women on quite that much of a pedestal in order to see why protecting them from HPV is important - but I suspect a lot of that is the poster's anger speaking. Some things deserve anger.
If you believe premarital sex is always a bad idea, I'm not going to think less of you for holding that belief. You can live by it, you can attempt to persuade your children of it, and while they remain children you can even use some degree of parental coercion to prevent them from having it.
But the idea of deliberately endangering a child in the hope that it'll deter them from having sex (fat chance!) is nothing more than a genteel, First-World version of the African custom of 'circumcising' one's daughters with bits of broken glass. But at least in Africa, the perpetrators have to witness the blood and pain first-hand.
