Sex

I do hope that got your attention. I realise sex is talked about waaaay too much already in our society, but it would be a little sad if it didn’t get a second look as a blog headline. Also, this isn’t one of those tricky posts where one puts a headline up that SOUNDS provocative but really has a tame other-meaning attached to it--I’m not just going to talk about gender, I’m not talking about cows mating or something, this is the real deal. A little sex talk.

OK, maybe I’m holding out on you a LITTLE. I’m not sharing any juicy details about my own or anyone else’s super-sexy private life--I’m not sure that I’d be able to fill a whole blog post with that, anyway. I have kind of an ulterior motive...but it’s a good one, I promise.

Here are two points I want to make.
a) Sex can cause cancer.
b) You can win some pretty nice prizes by blogging about that.

a) You may already know, but most cervical cancer is linked to the HPV virus, which is sexually transmitted. Now, before you sigh and ask if AIDS, herpes, genital warts, and syphilis weren’t enough to take the glamour out of sex, don’t be discouraged. There’s always abstinence! No, it gets better. Because abstinence hopefully isn’t a terminal condition, and because EVEN MARRIED PEOPLE IN UTAH (previous marriage? previous indiscretion? current indiscretion(shame on you)?) can get STDs, some kind scientists developed an HPV vaccine. It’s pretty safe and effective and if you’re a chick you should probably get it. (Guys can’t get one yet, but I believe there are future plans for that).
a) http://www.cancerutah.org/prevent/ Please visit this link. And then blog. You were going to blog about something, right? Make it useful for a change. If you’re lazy, you can just use Twitter. And you really can win some cool prizes. I helped choose them. Including the spa package. I recommended the spa. It’s really wonderful. And I can’t enter the contest because of the fine print rules and my job. So you should.

Again: http://www.cancerutah.org/prevent/ Click on the big “Cervical Cancer Prevention Contest” link at the top.