hpv vaccine...pro or con?

so the big controversy is whether giving the hpv vaccine (a vaccine to help prevent the hpv virus which causes cervical cancer through sexual contact) to young girls is promoting pre-marital sex. i was watching oprah and they were discussing this and the reasons that it's a good idea. evidentally, 85% of us will be exposed to the hpv virus (through skin to skin contact). 95% of our bodies will fight the virus off.

i was really against this before watching this because i don't want my daughter to think it's ok to be having sex, but now that i've seen it, i agree with it under one condition. i would only want her to know that it may help prevent cancer later rather than telling her it's for an std. i think it would be a good idea in the case that, heaven forbid, she's assaulted someday.

texas wants to make this a mandatory vaccine for girls starting at age 9. i do think this is young, but it was also mentioned that it's not as effective when you're older. so, as long as we can tactfully and effectively teach our girls that it is for their good, but not be too explicit, i think it's a good idea. my only drawback now is, since it's in a way boosting the immune system, will it actually be a negative thing for my girls...being prone to lupus?

i smell a rat?

for some reason, i was thinking about all the cliches that compare us to animals and wondered why that is...since i'm sure we were doing these things before we ever noticed animals doing them. here are some of what i'm talking about:

-sly as a fox
-i'm not going to be your guinea pig
-i smell a rat
-sweating like a pig
-fat as a cow
-blind as a bat

you get my gist. i mean i don't know when it was that men found out bats were blind, but i can assume it was not before there were blind people around. shouldn't we say "that cow is as fat as henry". and, seriously, were pigs the first to sweat? i doubt that.

the reason rats smell is that they pee on everything as sort of a personal resume for other rats. so when we use the term "i smell a rat", we are saying we suspect someone of covering something up, when rats actually use their scent to share information about themselves, such as their sex, species, age, social status, reproductive status, and individual.

anyway, that was just something i was thinking about this morning. i think of unusual things while i'm watching dora the explorer.