HPV shots

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Hoping that's meant as a joke!

Nope. It's a cost cutting exercise now, yes. However, back in the fifties and predating that, women were blamed for men having affairs, and blamed for the spread of venereal diseases etc. If a man had an extra marital affair, it wasn't his fault, it was blamed on the woman who enticed him away. It was extremely sad, women were very wrongly blamed for many things, expected to be obedient and compliant, whereas men could do as they pleased, and any wrongdoing was given a blind eye.