I think one reason they are trying to set the age requirement so low is so that people DON'T associate it with sexual activity. You said it yourself, HPV is usually (not always) sexually transmitted, meaning there are other ways of contracting it. It also means that if the girl ever DOES have a sexual relationship (even when married) she could still contract it.

The main issue everyone has with this vaccine is that it *could possibly* be associated with sexual activity. The fact that someone is trying to dictate what people do with their own bodies in even a remote way relating to the reproductive organs is a hot spot that sets people off. If this were for any other form of cancer, people would be all for someone having it be a requirement to get into school. It's just like the flu shot, Hep A, Hep B, and numerous other vaccines, this one just has an effect on a disease that happens to be sexually transmitted.

I wonder if you would feel the same if there were a preventative medicine to stop HIV in its sexually transmitted form...

I'm not for or against it, because it doesn't affect me or anyone of my gender, but the fact that it immediately sounds like a bad idea just because it's reproductive in nature sounds like a knee jerk reaction to me.

* sits down and waits for the change on his 2 cents*