Women are the ones that require HPV testing, no? But men, are often found to pass this virus along because they rarely get symptoms and they dont get pap smears, so they will never know either way. Unless they get a wart in their bunghole, so my thing is why dont they test the men since they are the ones passing this crap along? Im not saying we women dont contribute, but the men never know, they just keep it going.
2007-03-29 19:50:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Yaya-yes women get the cervical cancer but you never believed in catching the problem before it even starts. MEN DO NOT GET TESTED FOR THIS, therefore they DONT know. So, you cannot know what you dont know, you pass the shyt on to me, then I am in the gynecologist office every six months with my legs wide open and a speculum in there just to see if im getting a cancer. Are you following? lol I dont mean to be funny but its like some man that worked in a lab created this virus, and said "im going to mess with women, cuz I dont like em" and then boom, creates a virus that only WOMEN can get tested for, but wasnt born with. Thats just my logic on things.
2007-03-30 05:55:44 · update #1
Get men tested? lol. They are not responsible enough. I wouldn't trust a man who said he had been tested for ANYTHING!!
Luckily, a wonderful Australian doctor has just brought out a vaccine for HPV. They are about to start vaccinating all girls from the age of 12 here, which is such fantastic news for them, but not so great for those who already have it.
It is a terrible problem with astoundingly high numbers of people infected, many of who have no idea until they have a smear that shows abnormal cell changes.
I agree with you though. Men really need to start taking more responsibility for sexual health.
2007-03-30 03:02:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure men would get tested if they could. But, there is currently NO test for men to detect HPV. Men usually find out they have HPV by developing warts from it. It can take months or even several years for a person to devlop warts. Some men never develop them. So, they end up passing the virus around, unknowingly.
Also, men are not just "carriers" of the virus. Men are directly affected by it, just like women. Obviously men can't develop cervical cancer from it, but they can develop genital warts and RARELY can develop penile and anal cancer from it.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-and-men.htm#test
2007-03-30 01:52:45 · answer #2 · answered by Alli 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's a bummer that men get to carry this disease and infect others with it, but very rarely are affected by it. I realize women pass the infection, too, giving it to men and then the men sleep with someone different and pass it to them. It goes both ways. As far as telling who you got it from, good luck on that unless you've only been with one partner. So it's up to the women to tell the guy (or in most cases, the recent guys for a few years, even though it's been said that it can go back 10+years) she tested positive, then it's up to the guy to do the responsible thing and inform any subsequent partners this information.
2007-03-29 23:45:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, because the ones that are at risk of having cervical cancer are the women. Pap smears detect abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix and is an easy and cheap test. To know if a man have it, will require another kind of test that will cost a lot of money to the patient, and why will someone pay a test that doesn't affect him???
2007-03-29 20:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by yaya27pr 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
men can get std tested by getting a q tip stuffed up them. hpv for them is just genital warts. ovbiosly they only know from an outside break out. Know the status and history of who you sleep with. know your own stats. thats how you stay clean. women are just as fats as men so they pass diseases just as much if not more. prostituites are usually girls
2007-03-30 02:07:59 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs.Vick 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is no accurate test for HPV in men.
2007-03-30 05:03:02 · answer #6 · answered by bugs280 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no test for men.
2007-03-29 20:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by keith c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
as of now there is NO test they can give a man to see if he has a std. lets hope they come up with one soon, we all know they are carriers. you girls are getting it from them and on and on and on.
2007-03-29 19:59:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is only a question for promisuous people who don't know how to keep their legs closed or their pants zipped up.
2007-03-29 19:54:54 · answer #9 · answered by Joe C 5 · 0⤊ 8⤋