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Cancer vaccine about saving girls’ lives, not about sex
By Margery Eagan February 4, 2007...At a basketball game last week I watched two 11-year-old girls text-messaging on cell phones. They wore body-hugging Solo pants and the palest hint of lip gloss. One wore Uggs, the fur-lined boots you should wait until 16 to own, or at least until your feet stop growing. But why should she worry? The Uggs were a present. They were fun. And what a fun night this was, in the stands with her girlfriend and her snow cone, the courtside buzzer blaring, fans screaming, text messaging - perhaps? - to those cute boys a few rows away. OK, the idea that pediatricians will soon be giving such giggling little girls a vaccine to keep sexually transmitted diseases - and cervical cancer, at bay - well, it made me nostalgic for pre-Paris Hilton days, for ignorance-is-bliss time. That would be before the Milton Academy Shocker, 2005, when many of us head-in-the-sand types first learned that to 13-year-olds “hooking up” did not mean meeting at the mall. Read more at bostonherald.com |