Should boys be vaccinated against HPV? This is the new hot button question after the Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil use in men last week. The New York Times recently reported that advisory groups recommended boys between the ages of 9 and 25 soldier into doctor's offices and get injected with the costly, but effective, shot. Sex Does A Body Good

Gardasil, on the market since 2006, was previously just recommended for women as it protects against two strains of HPV that if undetected can lead to 90 percent of cervical cancer cases. While the shot prevents … Read More

Okeedokee then, a new party will be sitting in the White House come January 20th. Congratulations to Barack Obama. Also, the Dems also picked up a few seats in the Senate, so change of some kind is inevitable. We're not sure what happened to the House, who can keep up with the Commoners anyway?

It wasn't all good news on the liberal voting front, as of now California's Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage) looks to pass. The LA Times reports that the 'Yes' votes are slightly ahead of the 'No' votes with 92% of the ballots tallied. We're … Read More

The reality of living with an STD is a painful one, and one that people deal with everyday. The American Social Health Association reports that more than half of all people will contract an STD at some point in their lives, so how do couples make it work when their love can literally be painful or plagued with disease?

After contracting herpes from having oral sex with her then boyfriend, one writer on Nerve.com describes her journey trying to understand her STD and find love. She meets Mike (he has HPV … Read More

Hey, remember when big pharma came out with a drug that was a vaccine against HPV/ cervical cancer? And the only reason not to take it was that maybe it was an encouragement to have sex, possibly sans protection. It was sort of a red state/ blue state issue along the lines of abstinence-only sex ed. But curiously, we never heard about any of the negative effects of the drug. Oh, there has to be side-effects, right? Even cold medication has that sweet medicine-head side-effect. Beer helps people make bad decisions, et cetera. What gives, wonder drug?

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Yayer! According to Perez Hilton a German company has invented a spray-on condom. Condom Consultancy has a means by which a prophylactic enthusiast pumps liquid latex onto their dong and 20 to 25 seconds later they've got a custom jimmy hat. And the thing peels off just like a regular old raincoat.

Sure, 20 to 25 seconds is a long time to wait for some people particularly if the whole act is only going to last about that long or there's a risk of things, um, going south while watching the paint dry, so Condom Consultancy working on … Read More

Shnikees. We’ve been hearing that HPV is bad news bears for a while. Not only does the Human Papillomavirus leave unsightly GENITAL WARTS but can cause some serious (re: deadly) health problems, like cervical cancer (or cancer of the lady business, as we call anything to do with the female reproductive zone). And then we heard that the people are getting throat cancer for genital warts and we were like 'whaaa? How is that even possible?' And then a high school health teacher explained it us and we were like, 'Whoa. How is that fair? Oral sex … Read More

While tomfoolery generally gets all the attention today, the first of April, there are other observances to be aware of this month. April serves as Sports Eye Safety Month, National Welding Month and, a least favorite for ranidaphobes like myself, National Frog Month.

Perhaps most importantly, with the CDC recently reporting that one in four teenage girls has at least one sexually transmitted disease (STD), April is the time of year for (STD) awareness. Out of the nearly 850 girls aged 14-19 who participated in the CDC's study, 18% tested positive for human papillomavirus (HPV), … Read More

Gardasil is the newish vaccine for HPV (Human Papillomavirus/ Genital Warts). There was some semblance of a fracas last year about some regions requiring pubescent girls to get the shot because HPV can cause cervical cancer (and possibly throat cancer, it’s that kind of party). The concerns were twofold: 1) Some folks were a little uneasy about protecting kids against STDs when abstinence should suffice. 2) A few people in the medical community were a little uneasy with the long-term effects the vaccine.

But what about those little shavers out there? … Read More

From Bloomberg News By Michelle Fay Cortez

The virus that causes cervical cancer may be linked to throat cancer in those who engage in oral sex, a report says.

A study in 300 adults found that those infected with the human papillomavirus, or HPV, who had oral sex with more than six partners, were 3 times more likely to get throat cancer. The research was included in a package of studies and commentary on the virus reported in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

The throat cancer study did not explore whether Gardasil, the Merck & Co. HPV vaccine approved … Read More