I was part of the first cohort in 2008. There were a number of girls at my school whose parents didn't give permission, calling it the "slut jab". I remember boys in our year going round deliberately punching our arms on jab days and calling us slags. At least it was worth it in the end.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Teenaged boys are idiots, but parents really should know better. Or the permission slip should be better at explaining what's happening.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They knew. They knew that it prevented something that a woman could get during sex. So obviously getting it would just encourage girls to have sex, because they knew they were safe!

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If only they had known that it is also something that men can get from sex.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

That’s the part that I think perhaps wasn’t communicated well enough. So much focus is put on the women getting it that their little pea brains decided that women were the only ones affected.

…Or maybe not. They disapprove of sex outside of marriage for men too… officially.

In reality they have a much more complicated relationship with it; a man who doesn’t sleep around isn’t virile enough, but in their eyes marriage is sacred, so boys are told ‘don’t have sex before marriage’, with a pretty hefty nudge-nudge-wink-wink and boys-will-be-boys attached.

But if they get sick for it, oh well, they were warned!