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One of the two you mentioned has a vaccine that many get as a teen now and the other is an occasional rash for most carriers.

Obviously everyone should consider the risks associated with having sex with lots of partners but those two particular STD's are pretty low on that list of risks.

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True. I only mentioned then because they're virtually omnipresent and are transmitted from skin to skin contact where a condom offers only partial protection at best.

Many other STDs need some sort of fluid transmission which is at least easier to avoid.

Also, the vaccine only protects from a few of the hundreds(?) of strains of HPV. It protects from those varieties that are most likely to cause cervical cancer, but generally not those that cause genital warts.

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