THE VACCINE MEN AREN’T TALKING ABOUT
THREE YEARS AGO, New York City physician Abraham Aragones, M.D., did two things he thought he would never do: He got divorced from his wife of 14 years, and he got a vaccination to protect himself from HPV.
Dr. Aragones, then 41, had dedicated the previous 15 years of his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to promoting vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV). That’s the rampant virus that’s generally spread via skin-to-skin contact during unprotected sex and is linked to multiple kinds of head, neck, and genital cancers in men. Until his marriage ended, he didn’t think he needed the shot. He’d been with the same partner, after all. But with divorce came reentry into the dating pool and the realization that
