Sexuality Now 3rd Edition by Janell Carroll

Exercise 6

Th e vaccine Gardasil, which protects women from strains of HPV that can cause cervical cancer, has been available for a few years now. If you had daughters, would you get them vaccinated? Health care providers are recommending vaccinating girls as young as 9 years. If you would give your daughter the vaccine, at what age do you think you'd want her to have it and why? If it were available for boys and men, would you want your son to have it? At what age?