You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at Savage. Love.

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. If you could get a shot, a safe shot that cuts, it cuts your risk of developing a very common

and often deadly cancer by 90%. Would you get that shot? You would. You listen to my podcast.

That means you're a sensible person with good judgment. Maybe you even subscribe. That makes you a super sensible person with unimpeachable judgment. You would definitely get that shot. Now, if you could get your kid a shot that would prevent your child's chances of developing a common cancer and sometimes a deadly cancer in adulthood, cutting their

chances of developing those cancers by 90%. Would you get your kid that shot? Of course you would,

because you are not a monster. You don't want your kid to suffer and die from what is now an

almost entirely avoidable kind of cancer. Or maybe you are a monster and you don't care about your kid,

but not even a monster wants their kid to die at age 35 and then get stuck raising the grandkids.

So you would still get your kid that shot. I'm obviously talking about the HPV vaccine here,

the one you need to get as a kid, a vaccine that protects women and men

from the human papillomavirus. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that. I usually call it the

human papillovirus. That's the virus that causes genital warts and certain kinds of cancer.

Most notably cervical cancer. Also penile cancer, anal cancer, throat cancer. The HPV vaccine is safe and it's effective, and we've

known that for a long time. Dr. Ida Park came back on the show a couple weeks ago to talk about it,

amongst other things. But a blockbuster new study came out in the UK last week,

the study that documents, really for the first, documents just how many cases of cancer the

HPV vaccine is preventing there. And how many lives it's saving and could save all over the

world if everyone got vaccinated against HPV and got vaccinated young. Adult women, the study found,

who got the HPV vaccine between the ages of 12 and 13, women who are now in their 20s, had rates of cervical cancer 87% lower than the rates experienced by women who weren't vaccinated.

Not a lot of women in their 20s get cervical cancer, but 50 women who weren't vaccinated got cervical cancer in the study compared to just five who

were vaccinated. Cervical cancer rates were lower by 62% for adult women who were vaccinated

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