• Home
  • Victims
    • Vaccine Victims Memorial
    • Gardasil & Silgard
      • G / S Australasia
        • G / S Australia
        • G / S New Zealand
      • G / S Europe
        • G / S Czech Republic
        • G / S Denmark
        • G / S France
        • G / S Germany
        • G / S Ireland
        • G / S Italy
        • G / S Norway
        • G / S Scotland
        • G / S Spain
        • G / S United Kingdom
      • G / S N. America
        • G / S Canada
        • G / S Mexico
        • G / S United States
      • G / S S. America
        • G / S Brazil
        • G/S Colombia
    • Cervarix
      • Cervarix Asia
        • Cervarix India
        • Cervarix Philippines
      • Cervarix Europe
        • Cervarix Czech
        • Cervarix Netherlands
        • Cervarix Scotland
        • Cervarix Slovakia
        • Cervarix Spain
        • Cervarix UK
      • Cervarix N. America
        • Cervarix Mexico
  • Resources
    • HPV Testing Resources
      • Pre-HPV Vaccination
      • Post-HPV Vaccination
    • Medical Professionals
    • Vaccine Injury Attorneys
    • Political Action Groups
    • Vaccine Groups
    • Vaccine Victims Hotline
  • SANE Vax Press Releases
  • Videos
    • Vaccine Safety Videos
    • Vaccine Victim Videos
    • Pharma Videos
  • About
    • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Press Releases
    • SANE Vax in the News
    • Contact Us

SaneVax, Inc.

The First International HPV Vaccine Information Clearinghouse

  • NEWS
    • Government Agencies
      • African
      • Asian
      • Australasian
      • European
      • North American
      • South American
      • United Nations
      • WHO
    • Pharmaceutical Companies
      • CSL Biotherapies
      • GlaxoSmithKline
      • Inovio Pharmaceuticals
      • Liquidia Technologies
      • Merck & Co.
      • Novartis
      • Pfizer
      • Qiagen
      • Sanofi Aventis
      • Sanofi Pasteur MSD spmsd
      • Wyeth Laboratories
    • Science & Medicine
      • Cancer
      • Clinical Trials
      • Environmental Health
      • Heavy Metal Toxicity
      • HPV Science
      • Influenza
      • Meningitis
      • Pertussis
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Rotavirus
      • STD’s
      • Vaccine Science
      • Women’s Health
    • Vaccine Adverse Events
    • Vaccine Injury Reporting
      • VAERS
      • VAMPSS
    • Vaccine Litigation
    • Vaccine Marketing
    • Vaccine Politics/People
    • Vaccine Victims
      • Cervarix Injuries
      • DTP/DTaP Injuries
      • Fluvax Injuries
      • Fluzone Injuries
      • Gardasil / Silgard Injuries
      • Menomune Injuries
      • MMR Injuries
      • Polio Vaccine Injuries
      • Synflorix Injuries
      • Yellow Fever Vaccine
    • Vaccines
      • Anthrax
      • Breast Cancer
      • Chicken Pox
      • Cholera
      • Combination Vaccines
      • Diphtheria
      • Hepatitis B
      • HPV
      • Influenza Vaccines
      • Malaria
      • Measles
      • Meningitis Vaccines
      • MRSA
      • Mumps
      • Norovirus
      • Pertussis Vaccines
      • Pneumococcal Disease
      • Polio
      • Rotavirus Vaccines
      • Shingles
      • Smallpox
      • TB
      • Tetanus
      • Typhoid
      • Yellow Fever Vaccine
    • Vaccines and the Media
  • WORLD NEWS
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Australasia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • South America
  • RESEARCH
    • Cancer Research
    • Cervarix Vaccine
    • Gardasil/Silgard Vaccine
    • Human Pap. Research
    • Immunization Practices
    • Neurology
    • Vaccine Adjuvants
    • Vac. Ingredient Research
    • Vaccine Injuries
    • Vaccine Preservatives
    • Vaccine Related Research
    • Vaccine Safety
  • CITIZENS SPEAK
    • Cervical Cancer Debate
    • HPV Vax
      • Australian Concerns
      • Canadian Concerns
      • Irish Concerns
      • Spain Concerns
      • UK Concerns
      • United States Concerns
You are here: Home / NEWS . . . . . . . . / Vaccines / HPV / Gardasil / Silgard / Can We Have the HPV Vaccine Without the Sexism and the Homophobia?

Can We Have the HPV Vaccine Without the Sexism and the Homophobia?

October 31, 2011 By Jonathan 1 Comment

Ms. Magazine

October 27, 2011 by Adina Nack ·

I respect that some of you are anti-vaccines–or just anti-Gardasil—but I hope that some Ms. readers will join me in cheering what I consider a better-late-than-never decision by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It has officially recommendedthat boys and men ages 13-to-21 be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted disease HPV (human papillomavirus) to protect from anal and throat cancers.

There are many reasons this makes good sense. As I wrote in the Winter 2010 issue of Ms., there’s overwhelming evidence that HPV can lead to deadly oral, anal and penile cancers–all of which affect men and all of which are collectively responsible for twice as many deaths in the U.S. each year as cervical cancer. However, vaccines are a touchy topic, and I want to be clear that I’m not advocating in favor of or against anyone’s decision to get an HPV vaccination. I do strongly advocate for boys and girls, men and women, to have equal access to Gardasil and any other FDA-approved vaccine. Private insurers are required to cover HPV vaccines for girls and young women with no co-pay under the 2010 health reform legislation, and with this decision, that coverage requirement will extend to boys and young men, effective one year after the date of the recommendation. And, whether or not you or your loved ones get vaccinated against HPV, we will all benefit from more vaccinations, considering the extent of this sexually transmitted epidemic/pandemic, which affects as many as 75 percent of adult Americans and can be spread by skin-to-skin genital or oral contact (yes, that includes “French kissing”).

However, the media coverage of the recommendation includes a line of reasoning that I, as a sexual health educator and researcher, find offensive, ignorant, and inaccurate. The New York Times wrote: “Many of the cancers in men result from homosexual sex.” Really? What counts as “homosexual sex”? Most public health experts and HIV/AIDS researchers view “homosexuality” primarily as a sexual orientation, sometimes as a social or political identity, but not as a type of intercourse. Anyone who studies U.S. sexual norms knows that oral sex and anal sex–the behaviors cited as increasing risks of HPV-related oral and anal cancers–are not restricted to men who have sex with men. In fact, the NYT article itself asserts, “A growing body of evidence suggests that HPV also causes throat cancers in men and women as a result of oral sex” –so you don’t have to identify as a “homosexual” man to be at risk; you don’t even have to be a man.

Nevertheless, the New York Times goes on to muse that “vaccinating homosexual boys would be far more cost effective than vaccinating all boys, since the burden of disease is far higher in homosexuals.” Thankfully, the author also thought to check this idea with a member of the CDC committee, who seemed to grasp the ethical and practical challenges of making a recommendation based on a boy’s or man’s “homosexuality.” Kristen R. Ehresmann, Minnesota Department of Health and ACIP member, is quoted as cautioning, “But it’s not necessarily effective or perhaps even appropriate to be making those determinations at the 11- to 12-year-old age.”

Read Full Article….

Please take the time to post your comments about this article to the Ms. blog.  We need to educate a new audience about the dangers of Gardasil. Interesting that Pharma got to the ‘feminists.’

 

Related

Filed Under: Gardasil / Silgard, United States, Vaccine Marketing, Vaccine Politics/People, Women's Health Tagged With: adverse events, Cervical Cancer HPV, FDA, Gardasil/Silgard, HPV, HPV vaccine, HPV VACCINES, vaccinations, Vaccine Adverse Reactions

Comments

  1. kristen says

    October 31, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Of course! I mean it’s definitely not fair to kill & mame only our little girls. We should definitely throw the little boys in the mix as well. I mean the poor Pharm was missing out on 1/2 the profits they could have been making. We wouldn’t want that!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Follow Us

SaneVax on FacebookSaneVax on TwitterSaneVax on LinkedInSaneVax on YoutubeSaneVax RSS Feed

Help Support SaneVax

Notice: We need your support. This massive research & presentation comes from a team of volunteers. We need your help to keep this critical information available.



SaneVax relies on support from participants like you. We are a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation, donations are tax deductible. Help keep this venue available and support the spirit – Thank you!

This Week’s Survivor

Raquel from Spain

Categories

Links

  • Creating an HPV Industry
  • File a VAERS Report
  • Gardasil and Unexplained Deaths
  • HPV Industry Timeline
  • HPV Mechanisms of Action in Women
  • HPV Vaccine Fact Sheet
  • Petition: Rescind HPV Vaccine Approval
  • Presentation to the FDA
  • Supreme Court Arguments

HPV Vaccine VAERS Reports

Description 12/14/2019  TOTAL
Disabled 3,092
Deaths 523
Did Not Recover 13,072
Abnormal Smear 695
Cervical Cancer 186
Infertility 52
Life-threatening 1,001
Emergency Room 15,419
Hospitalized 6,448
Extended Hosp. Stay 304
Serious 9,497
Total Adverse Events 64,270

Access expanded report here.

Related

Subscribe2


 

Log In

Featured Video

Gardasil Vaccine Victims and Death – Did You Know?

News

SaneVax News Blog!
News

Videos

Safety • Victims • Pharma
No Genetic Epidemic

Contact

Contact S.A.N.E.Vax
S.A.N.E.VAX log thumbnail

Copyright © 2022 SaneVax, Inc. · Site by TheWebElves.com a div. of KalaRhythms.org · Log in

 

Loading Comments...