{"id":15184,"date":"2009-11-09T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15184"},"modified":"2011-08-08T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:08:11","slug":"guest-post-oral-sex-vaccines-other-dangerous-pursuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/09\/guest-post-oral-sex-vaccines-other-dangerous-pursuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Sex, Vaccines & Other Dangerous Pursuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oral Cancer Foundation<\/a> released this video<\/a> last month, just a couple of weeks before the FDA was scheduled to vote on approval of the ‘male’ Gardasil vaccine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re pro- or anti-vaccine, you might wonder why has FDA testing of and approval for Gardasil\u2019s use on males lagged three years behind<\/a> the female-only \u201ccervical cancer\u201d vaccine? Most of us\u00a0who have followed\u00a0Gardasil\u2019s development were not surprised when the FDA recently voted to approve<\/a> its use on boys and young men\u00a0for the prevention of genital warts. However, this limited focus on male genital warts ignores the growing number of medical studies<\/a> which have shown causal connections between two cervical-cancer causing types of HPV (covered by Gardasil) and a variety of cancers that can have devastating health consequences in female and<\/span> male bodies.<\/p>\n

In light of this body of research, many were dismayed by the fact that the CDC decided against recommending routine use<\/a> of the Gardasil vaccine for boys.\u00a0 A NYT article<\/a> reported that this committee will likely consider data on Gardasil\u2019s ability to protect against male cancers when it meets again in February.<\/p>\n

As more Americans learn about the causal links between HPV strains covered by Gardasil and serious (sometimes fatal) oral and anogenital cancers, it will be interesting to see if U.S. boys\/young men get vaccinated at as high a rate as girls\/young women.<\/p>\n

To educate people about the risk of oral cancer from sexually-transmitted HPV, the Oral Cancer Foundation released this video:<\/p>\n

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Adina Nack is an\u00a0associate\u00a0professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University<\/a> specializing in medical sociology, gender inequality and sexual health.\u00a0 Nack\u2019s book, Damaged Goods?\u00a0 Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases<\/a><\/em> came out in 2008.\u00a0 You can see an earlier post of hers, about sexually transmitted disease and stigma, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Oral Cancer Foundation released this video last month, just a couple of weeks before the FDA was scheduled to vote on approval of the ‘male’ Gardasil vaccine. Whether you\u2019re pro- or anti-vaccine, you might wonder why has FDA testing of and approval for Gardasil\u2019s use on males lagged three years behind the female-only \u201ccervical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,252,304,120],"class_list":["post-15184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-healthmedicine","tag-the-state","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15184"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38422,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions\/38422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}