Comment by apparent
2 months ago
> I decided years ago I’d do this because I was going to have girls and I wanted to minimize my daughters’ risk of cancer.
I don't understand: how would your daughters be more/less likely to get cancer based on whether you were vaccinated? There's obviously the (hopefully extremely) roundabout way in which there is a direct path of sexual partners leading from you to your future daughters, but is there something else I'm missing?
And if you don't have it by age 35 (and married, per your comment below), how likely are you to even get it at this point? Are you thinking you could hypothetically pass it to them by kissing your babies on the mouth, after contracting it in the future?
The vaccine is likely to do very little damage to me, but cervical cancer is a big bad. I think I'm just accounting for some risk that we discover a non-sexual mode of transmission.
Seems unlikely that there's a way for fathers to accidentally give HPV to their daughters and we haven't figured it out yet.
I would think that kissing a baby on the lips would be the best chance, and if that were the case it'd be super obvious because there'd be a bunch of toddlers with HPV, which would cause alarm.
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