What's funny is the US initially only vaccinated women against HPV because "men can't get cervical cancer". Then it turned out lots of men were getting oral/throat cancers from oral HPV acquired from oral sex. Oops!
The trail of bread crumbs seems to be there. - HPV - Hep C - Human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus (HTLV)
I recall there being a sudden, loud push 10ish years ago, for everyone to get the HPV vaccine.
There were some anti-vax arguments against it for the same reason as there's resistance to sex ed; but no "men can't get cervical cancer" arguments, that I recall.
> Vaccination of secondary target populations e.g. females aged ≥15 years or males, is only recommended if feasible, affordable, cost-effective and does not divert resources from vaccinating primary target population or from effective cervical cancer screening programmes.
> HPV-related throat cancer is on the rise, and the typical patient is a male in his 50s or 60s.