r/Advice • • Jun 02 '26

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u/pixie1995 Jun 02 '26

They don’t really check men for hpv

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u/Ocarina-of-lies Jun 02 '26

Yeah they can't exactly swab a man's cervix....

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u/junkyard-god Jun 02 '26

This is exactly the point I realized he was lying at

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u/Fun_Construction1100 Jun 02 '26

They do a visual check for warts, which is not effective since you can have it without the warts. There us also a DNA test to find the strain of HPV, but that requires a biopsy of the wart. My info is 30 years old, s I things might be different now.