“There are no side effects”: HPV’s ill-advised new poster child, Alexa Ray Joel
I had it. But I mean, a lot of people get it from my ex…. I mean it was fine, you know. There are no side effects.
You just go and get it taken care of….
It’s something like, I think the statistics were something like 98% of people will have it.
~ Singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel, 25, daughter of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel, sadly clueless about the human papillomavirus, as quoted by The Daily Mail, October 28
HPV affects “at least half of all sexually active people,” according to the CDC. Along with causing genital warts, “persistent HPV infections are now recognized as the cause of essentially all cervical cancers, as well as most cases of anal cancer,” according to the National Cancer Institute, which also reports it is incurable: “[T]here is currently no medical treatment for HPV infections.”
See Alexa Ray’s full interview (warning: slightly graphic) at XO Jane.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
HPV is a permanent viral infection, like herpes. You can’t just “get it taken care of” and make it go away forever.
Miracles aside, of course.
Sexuality is connected to all kinds of horrors: abortions, babies killed at birth or abandoned in trash cans, and a multitude of sexually transmitted diseases. Yet every time I suggested reasonable, humane ways to reduce sexual activity, such as reviving chaperoned dating or making it easier to avoid face-to-face contact by encouraging education and work from home, people either think I’m making mockery or accuse me of being an extremist.
the vaccine has killed a few people. doesnt sould so safe to me.
But I mean, a lot of people get it from my ex….
We have to do a better job of educating our young people to say no to these creeps! It is young people’s best interest to wait for marriage.
If they are not willing to wait, they are not worthy to date.
her father told her he goes “both ways” ???? shes not getting her good morals from dad.
Some men are carriers of this virus. They are born with it. It gives cervical cancer to the women he sleeps with… Unprotected… Such as his wife. Who will probably discover her cancer shortly after the birth of their first child… And have part of her cervix removed and skin cells burned away… If she doesn’t get the HPV immunization. Thus happens a lot more than you think. Some women don’t catch the cancer in time, and require a hysterectomy at a young age. I’ve never heard of someone dying from getting this injection… And it was probably caused from administration, not the actual dose itself. I have given this injection to both boys and girls. I’m glad to see a world in which young ladies don’t have to get cancer from having sex with their future husband.
The more sexual partners a woman has … Unprotected… The greater her chances are to come in contact with HPV. It only makes sense.
I guess overall I am all for the HPV immunization for both boys (to prevent getting it and passing it to other girls) and girls (so that they don’t get it from other boys or a carrier)
The reality is that people may sleep with a couple of people before choosing their spouse.
Do you have a link that children are born with HPV and are carriers?
” Even men with only one lifetime sex partner can get HPV.” directly from CDC website.
Yes, we know that the one sexual partner he had may have been with one other person… But even as unrealistic as this scenario is… If a husband or wife was a little less than truthful… You could get HPV.
I’m looking for a link for being born with it, I have read it before.
Here’s more in men being carriers:
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-and-men.htm
So the answer to that Carla is no. Realistic is reading into things and making up his/her own scientific data.
Do a little better research Realistic. Girls have died from this. And the vaccine hasn’t so far prevented one single cervical cancer death or been shown to do anything… other than cause autoimmune disorders and death.
This site claims that at least 103 young women have died and documents testimonies and case studies from many young women who claim severe reactions to Gardasil. Read for yourself. A friend’s daughter, not included on this site, was hospitalised with seizures within 48 hrs of her first (and only) injection and two years later still battles a long list of ill effects.
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/
From CDC website, 29,000 people tested Guardasil during trials and 71 died. Thats not counting other bad reactions. Thats deaths. Bet those 71 never realized by agreeing to be guinea pigs they would die.
Guardasil is bad but all in the name of mighty money, we are willing to sacrifice little boys and girls so Big Pharma can make money.
And thats just the testing period. Thats not counting the deaths after Guardasil hit the market.
Go to youtube.
Type in Gardasil Side effects.
Wow.
Why do we have these horrors? Because of partnered sexual activity. We’ve got to do something more than, as my mother once said, “Tell ’em not to screw around!”
On a practical level, what measures can be taken to decrease the activity leading to problem pregnancies and STDs?
From her quote, am I to understand that 98% of us will contract HPV through her ex???
But anyway. I look at it like this: They don’t know for sure that having HPV does in fact cause cancer since many without HPV get cancer and many with HPV do not.
They are using faulty logic. Take this true stat for example… “All pedophiles view porn, but not everyone who views porn is a pedophile.” Now it would be considered “insane” and “theocratic” to round up everyone who views porn and incarcerate them simply because their viewing of porn can be construed, from this true stat, as risk for pedophilia, and it would be against thier constitutional rights (and human rights) to treat them as though they will without a doubt commit this heinous crime and punish them as a “preventative”.
So if we are supposed to “respect” peoples choices to view porn and “understand” that they aren’t ALL pedos or about to become pedos, why is it ok to take the stat of “MANY people with cancer also have HPV but not everyone with HPV gets cancer”, and immediately assume EVERYONE will a: contract HPV and b: get cancer and thus must rush a dangerous unproven vaccine to market and MANDATE that EVERYONE get it whether they are “at risk” or not since it’s just better to assume a 98% population risk and “prevent” the cancer.
See the parallel? It’s the same thing. I hope I’ve gotten my point across. It is against our constitutional and human rights to be MANDATED to inject deadly poisons into ourselves or our daughters. There is no proof she will contract HPV and no proof HPV causes cancer.
Do not call the firemen to a house and have them douse it if there are no flames or smoke or proof of danger. Water damage will destroy everything you were trying to save from fire. Get it???
It’s too bad this dolt was NOT able to inherit ANY of her mom’s good looks. She’s as ugly as her dad’s mug and lack of morals.
Whoever is hitting like is only encouraging it!!!
HPV is now implicated in cardio vascular disease. Women who have no prior risk for heart disease develop a risk when they contract HPV.
The solution is not the vaccine. The solution is to forgo sex until marriage and stay married to your spouse and not cheat.
That’s the solution but apparently it’s too difficult for some people. :(
angel says:
October 30, 2011 at 5:05 pm
HPV is now implicated in cardio vascular disease. Women who have no prior risk for heart disease develop a risk when they contract HPV.The solution is not the vaccine. The solution is to forgo sex until marriage and stay married to your spouse and not cheat.That’s the solution but apparently it’s too difficult for some people.
(Denise) What measures can be taken to make it easier?
I don’t know if Miss Joel addresses this in the article, but she had a very public nervous breakdown due to depression over romantic distress. I remember reading about it while waiting for a doctor’s appointment and feeling so sorry for her pain.
So now to hear that she’s flippantly refering to an STD as not that big of a deal is baffling.
To address an earlier comment: HPV sometimes does go away on its own. I don’t know in what percentages but it’s not always permanent. (Not that I’m agreeing with Miss Joel or anything)
Jennifer, i think that the symptoms (ie warts) can go away on their own, but the virus itself does not? I am not 100% certain on that but I remember learning it. And a person can transmit the virus even when asymptomatic.
Hi Alexandra, I know that sometimes the virus itself goes away, as indicated by a blood test. Again, I don’t know how often it happens and I’m not saying that HPV is “no big deal”. I’m just saying that I know for certain that it has been known to happen. (And of course you are right that it can be transmitted, even when asymptomatic.)