Reply #10: CDC STD Fact Sheet: HPV and Men [View All]

[progdonkey]

http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV-and-men.htm

Long story short: men don't really have to worry about HPV, as it's usually at most a nuisance (and even then only if it's a strain that causes warts). The only concern for men is infecting their female partners. Since women are the ones primarily at risk of actually dying from HPV, treatment and prevention should be focused on them.

Also, consider how much more difficult it would be to convince the general male population to get a vaccination that will only really benefit their female partners than to convince women that a vaccination will reduce their risk of cervical cancer drastically? I'd have no problem, since I have no worries about needles and I'll be vaccinated for anything, but there are plenty of guys who would simply refuse, either out of fear of needles, vaccination "worries," or because they're just asses who don't see why they need to take something to prevent them from contracting something that is harmless to them.