Condoms and Cervical Cancer

Human Papilloma Virus is a sexually transmitted disease that is the cause of almost all cervical cancer. Unlike other STDs, it can be spread through contact with skin surrounding the genital area. This means that condoms don't always prevent its transmission. These are undisputed, but strikingly under-reported, medical facts.

Planned Parenthood wants us to know that although 5,000,000 people contract HPV every year, not every strain of HPV causes cervical cancer. And only one in 1000 women who contract that strain will actually come down with cervical cancer. That is not because the other 999 get better all by themselves; it's because many of them have precancerous conditions (cervical dysplasia) detected by pap smears, and subsequently treated.

What I do not see on this Planned Parenthood page is a reminder that both precancerous conditions of the cervix and their treatment , which can destroy the cervix's ability to produce the mucus necessary for sperm mobility, can lead to infertility.

Most women who contract HPV don't get cervical cancer, just as most smokers don't get lung cancer. But faithful monogamy is almost 100% effective in preventing cervical cancer. I would like to see these facts taught to our children. Once again, the health of women is being sacrificed to the ideals of the sexual revolution.

Comments

[Teresa]

I am, as I write, working on the latest directives by insurance companies for all general practitioners. How depressing is this, starting at 13 years of age:

Cervical cancer: screening (or Pap smear) by age 21 or within 3 years of onset of sexual activity; then every 3 years after two consecutive normal tests in low-risk population (low-risk are women who have first sexual intercourse after age 18, first childbearing after age 21 and fewer than 3 sexual partners per lifetime).

There you have it in black and white ladies -- if you are promiscuous, you are a recognized risk to the insurance companies.

Even more depressing was having to place in the FIVE - TWELVE years of age!!!:

Chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV: annual screening of all sexually active adolescents and other at-risk persons, even if asymptomatic, beginning at age 11.

Have we all gone mad? Gonorrhea in a FIVE year old?! If a doctor finds a five year old with gonorrhea, that patient has a bigger problem than the gonorrhea!!

[Abigail]

I also find that gynecologists have no category for monogamy. They will tell you that "any sexually active woman" is at risk for HPV. There's no category for a faithful wife married to a trustworthy man.

[Teresa]

Oh Abigail, I don't have daughters, (for whom it must be worse), I have sons. My fifteen year old needed a physical and I was told that I was no longer permitted in the room for examination and consultation. I understood this, out of dignity for my son. He's getting older and needs to transition to listening to his doctor and expressing health care issues on his own. But with the work I do, I suddenly panicked. I took him aside before he went in and told him when the subject of sexual activity comes up, the doctor is going to give you all condoms and no abstinance. You nod your head and tell him, "My parents and I have already spoken on this. Don't try to insist to him that you believe in abstinance. He might not believe you or he may be forced to have to just give you the party line over and over." Sure enough, that was his experience.