On another board I made a long post about STDs primarily using information on the CDC website. What appears below is taken from that post. As can be seen, HPV is very common.
Posts about chicas having STDs seem to create a lot of controversy. Obviously there are PLMs who make such posts to keep chicas for themselves. However, there are also guys who donโt want to face the fact that mongering is dangerous. They live denial and want to kill the messenger to preserve a false sense of security.
I neither willโnor canโโpass judgmentโ on this report. What I will say, however, is based on the laws of probability I believe from time to time both mongers and chicas contract STDs in the ZN.
Personally I'd rather see mongers "name names." If a chia has a problem I want to know about it before it becomes my problem too. I consider myself--and most other mongers--able to spot "self serving" posts so I don't think they harm a chica's reputation. When obviously false reports are made IMHO the only person to suffer is the PLM who loses the respect of other mongers. So again, I prefer to see mongers "name names."
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) - Genital Warts
Genital HPV infection is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Human papillomavirus is the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types. More than 30 of these viruses are sexually transmitted, and they can infect the genital area of men and women including the skin of the penis, vulva (area outside the vagina), or anus, and the linings of the vagina, cervix, or rectum. Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own.
Some of these viruses are called "high-risk" types, and may cause abnormal Pap tests. They may also lead to cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, or penis. Others are called "low-risk" types, and they may cause mild Pap test abnormalities or genital warts. Genital warts are single or multiple growths or bumps that appear in the genital area, and sometimes are cauliflower shaped.
Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year.
The types of HPV that infect the genital area are spread primarily through genital contact. Most HPV infections have no signs or symptoms; therefore, most infected persons are unaware they are infected, yet they can transmit the virus to a sex partner. Rarely does a pregnant woman pass HPV to her baby.
Most women are diagnosed with HPV on the basis of abnormal Pap tests. No HPV tests are currently available for men.
Most people who have a genital HPV infection do not know they are infected. The virus lives in the skin or mucous membranes and usually causes no symptoms. Some people get visible genital warts, or have pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Very rarely, HPV infection results in anal or genital cancers.
Genital warts usually appear as soft, moist, pink, or flesh-colored swellings, usually in the genital area. They can be raised or flat, single or multiple, small or large, and sometimes cauliflower shaped. They can appear on the vulva, in or around the vagina or anus, on the cervix, and on the penis, scrotum, groin, or thigh. After sexual contact with an infected person, warts may appear within weeks or months, or not at all.
Genital warts are diagnosed by visual inspection. Visible genital warts can be removed by medications the patient applies, or by treatments performed by a health care provider. Some individuals choose to forego treatment to see if the warts will disappear on their own. No treatment regimen for genital warts is better than another, and no one treatment regimen is ideal for all cases.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm