It is easily carried by males as well. There are some other minor mechanisms of transmission beling looked at, but overwhemingly, the vast majority of people get it through sexual contact. In the US they estimate that as many as 70 % (this number is quoted differently by different sources running from 50 -80%) of the entire US population will have had HPV at some point in their lives. You can see that it is a very ubiquious virus if that many millions of people are going to have it at some point in their lives. Thankfully out of the over 100 vaireties of HPV, only a handful are capable of producing malignancies. Multiple sexula partners increases risk, but it only takes one....