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by prepend 882 days ago
Yes, you’re right, sorry.

The vaccine prevents against up to 9 HPV, including many genital wart [0] strains.

So I was wrong about herpes but my point was that it protects males against STIs and is just a handy vaccine to protect sexually active men against something they don’t want (some genital warts) and that seems like a greater motivator than reducing transmission to protect women from cervical cancer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine