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[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It can be administered at anytime. It's usually given at 14 because most people aren't sexually active before then.

If you are older, it can still help. If you are a man without contact with HPV, you could become immune.

I could be wrong, but I got it at 30 even after having partners.

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[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20's or 30's).

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[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I got it because it was free for me and I was pretty confident I didn't have it. Seemed like a no downside thing.

Better at 14, but you can still do it later

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It wasn't required for millennial men to get the vaccine. It's only recently they started pushing for everyone to get it.

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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

There was also a lot of scare-mongering when it was introduced. My parents' church said that HPV was punishment from god for casual sex, and the vaccine would guarantee I'd go to hell, so they didn't let me get it.

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry your parents failed you there.