It's always felt normal to me. I learned that it might not had always been like that from the Sopranos.
And it's not an issue unless you're immunocompromised or otherwise highly vulnerable. It's not an issue for most people.
Are you sure? Also a mid-30s male and my PPO insurance covered it fully last year, no copay, coded as preventative. Call your health insurance and ask about “CPT code 90651”.
If anything, I'd be more annoyed about the 3-shots and repeated trips, vice a <200 charge; time is money, too.
NowI'm pretty sure any adult with insurance can get it through any pharmacy that does vaccines. I think the actuarial tables must have changed or the cost of the vaccine decreased.
They seem to be expanding the recommendation to wider and wider groups, was told the insurance company pretty much assumed you had HPV over a certain age and wouldn't cover it.
I was super annoyed as a teen and young adult when they kept opening the window for when you could receive it for a few years younger than me. My understanding is the manufacturers didn’t want to market an STD vaccine so Cervical cancer it was. Never mind men could transmit and harbor it. Guarding all susceptible parties just didn’t work with how they were going to market it.
There's no point to this. Health insurance providers are explicitly exempted from having to be truthful with you about coverage. The better ones will just tell you they don't answer coverage questions at all as a blanket policy; the rest will tell you whatever they think profits them the most.
citation needed? What entity rules that they are explicitly exempted?
It did. It's just a much lower prevalence than cervix cancer so it was framed around preventing cervix cancer, but as that's largely gone away the focus has shifted to preventing throat cancer.
There isn’t really a consensus across studies for what percentage of the population has HSV-1, but all studies agree that it’s “very common”. The reason you don’t see more people with herpes sores around their mouths is because most people with HSV-1 never have an outbreak, and those that do only usually have an outbreak when they are under a lot of stress or ill (because the immune system is occupied with things other than the HS virus).
A few companies are working on vaccines and cures for HSV-2 and even HSV-1 that are based on the COVID 19 RNA vaccines and we might be able to get them in the next decade.
For HPV, my personal opinion is that it is worth it to get vaccinated no matter what age you are, since only certain strains cause cancer and you might not have gotten those strains yet. The medical profession doesn’t agree with me however.
It should be no surprise the US medical establishment wouldn't want to push a vaccine for an STD.
Also, yes, sex practices have changed widely in regard to oral sex, many men considered it to be emasculating to go down on a woman and sex was pretty much just PIV until the man finishes and then done.