I got 3 doses of gardasil at 37 in Norway. I do not want to expose women to a potentially deadly virus (plus I’d also like to avoid having penile cancer and mouth/throat cancer myself). If your doctor is seriously advising you against taking the vaccine, you should consult another doctor for a second opinion.

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pyuser583 3 days ago | parent [-]

I trust my doctor ... he's not some quack. I've looked online (multiple times over the years) and he's simply applying federal guidelines.

Family members have died from cervical cancer so I get it. I also made sure my younger children received this vaccine.

There a ton of vaccines I could seek out. Why HPV specifically?

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rcruzeiro 2 days ago | parent [-]

> There a ton of vaccines I could seek out. Why HPV specifically?

Assuming you are not commenting in bad faith, my reasons are in my original comment: "I do not want to expose women to a potentially deadly virus (plus I’d also like to avoid having penile cancer and mouth/throat cancer myself)."

	▲	pyuser583 a day ago \| parent [-]
		And I really don’t either. Close relatives have died from cervical cancer. I care about it a lot. Ideologically it feels weird, but when the doctor says it’s not recommended, what do I say? I’ve never fallen in the recommended categories. I’ve been to doctors overseas where I do fall in the recommended categories, but even they say to follow the advice off my “home practitioner.” And while I’m at it, how do I generalize the ethics behind this? Which medicines should I ignore doctors advice and take anyway?