Comment by timr

> The situation is pretty clear when you're a woman who got cancer from her boyfriend who knew he had HPV and didn't tell her

You can make up “just so” stories to justify anything.

The point is, the story you’re telling isn’t likely to occur if the woman is vaccinated.

The vaccine is incredibly effective in young women, and only borderline effective if administered in older men and women who have never been infected. Long-term efficacy in young men is less certain than for young women.

> Low-risk ones cause genital warts that continue causing warts throughout your lifetime.

Again, no. Most infections clear on their own. You are correct that rarely some infections are persistent or dormant, and that these sometimes lead to cancer. But these are the minority.