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Would you enter a relationship with someone with genital herpes?

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  • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

    66% of people have oral herpes

    13% of people have genital herpes

    https://www.who.int/news/item/01-05-2020-massive-proportion-world-population-living-with-herpes-infection

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    Then you have someone give their partner head and no one can tell which kind of herpes they have without tests, because as far as I know they supposedly present the same.

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    • viking@infosec.pubV [email protected]

      I got a vasectomy, so in a committed relationship, I don't care.

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      You see that is rather pertinent information.

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      • fryd@sh.itjust.worksF [email protected]

        Edit: Oh geez. I guess I might’ve just gotten worked up on just the stigma. Hell, I wonder if I gave it to her now. I’ve slept around way more than her.

        Edit 2: I cut out the whole long story because I’m a bit embarrassed to have overthought it so much and I guess it’s not really relevant. I’ll leave the post up so maybe other anxious people can see the responses.

        The spark notes version is: I loved a girl and let her go and when she came back, she and I worried about her having herpes.

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        It’s ridiculous that we don’t have a cure or at least a vaccine for Herpes at this point. Some scientists believe it’s a major contributor to Alzheimer’s.

        https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181022-there-is-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-leads-to-alzheimers

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        • fryd@sh.itjust.worksF [email protected]

          Edit: Oh geez. I guess I might’ve just gotten worked up on just the stigma. Hell, I wonder if I gave it to her now. I’ve slept around way more than her.

          Edit 2: I cut out the whole long story because I’m a bit embarrassed to have overthought it so much and I guess it’s not really relevant. I’ll leave the post up so maybe other anxious people can see the responses.

          The spark notes version is: I loved a girl and let her go and when she came back, she and I worried about her having herpes.

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          I wanted to date a girl that had it in college so I just talked to her about it, come to find out it's not that big of a deal.

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          • fryd@sh.itjust.worksF [email protected]

            Edit: Oh geez. I guess I might’ve just gotten worked up on just the stigma. Hell, I wonder if I gave it to her now. I’ve slept around way more than her.

            Edit 2: I cut out the whole long story because I’m a bit embarrassed to have overthought it so much and I guess it’s not really relevant. I’ll leave the post up so maybe other anxious people can see the responses.

            The spark notes version is: I loved a girl and let her go and when she came back, she and I worried about her having herpes.

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            I've you have ever made out with someone, you are already likely a carrier even if you aren't showing symptoms of any sort. It's actually on the rarer side for there to be active sores.

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              Not the genital one

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              It's been a long time since I read about this, but aren't they really just the same thing in different places?

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                Then you have someone give their partner head and no one can tell which kind of herpes they have without tests, because as far as I know they supposedly present the same.

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                Well unless it starts showing itself downstairs

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                  It’s ridiculous that we don’t have a cure or at least a vaccine for Herpes at this point. Some scientists believe it’s a major contributor to Alzheimer’s.

                  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181022-there-is-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-leads-to-alzheimers

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                  I mean, it infects your nerve cells. That's a tricky place for medicine for obvious reasons.

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                  • R [email protected]

                    Well unless it starts showing itself downstairs

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                    Both kinds can infect anywhere on the body, they just each have a zonal preference.

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                    • liz@midwest.socialL [email protected]

                      Both kinds can infect anywhere on the body, they just each have a zonal preference.

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                      Right but only 13% have it down in that zone.

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                      • R [email protected]

                        Right but only 13% have it down in that zone.

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                        No, only 13% have the kind that specializes in your genitals. Where they have it and the other kind is not a part of the static. (However it's pretty likely the numbers sort of self-balance and it ends up that about 13% of people have one of the herpes virus on/near their junk.)

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                          You see that is rather pertinent information.

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                          Why? We were talking about STDs, that's the only thing my comment aims at. Plenty of ways to ensure no pregnancy happens.

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