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Topic: What would you do?
Derekkye Joined Sat 12/22/07 Posts: 3427	Wed 07/30/08 08:14 PM
If you started seeing someone, and before any real developments took place were informed by this person that they had hpv - human papilomma virus?

merlin2525 Joined Sun 06/17/07 Posts: 2819	Wed 07/30/08 08:14 PM
wear a condom

stardust50 Joined Tue 06/03/08 Posts: 542	Wed 07/30/08 08:15 PM
Bummer but say no thanks.

ljcc1964 Joined Fri 10/19/07 Posts: 8298	Wed 07/30/08 08:15 PM
I'd do the Robot.

Riding_Dubz Joined Wed 05/21/08 Posts: 22110	Wed 07/30/08 08:15 PM
1-800-wrap-it-up no glove no love,

redhead44613 Joined Fri 01/18/08 Posts: 12976	Wed 07/30/08 08:15 PM
bye!

RKISIT Joined Tue 01/08/08 Posts: 16721	Wed 07/30/08 08:16 PM
I'd do the Robot. i still gotta see that

RKISIT Joined Tue 01/08/08 Posts: 16721	Wed 07/30/08 08:17 PM
i would rlh

the_guy_45 Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 5	Wed 07/30/08 08:18 PM
There are many kinds of HPV... I assume you're talking about Genital Warts... Just say no dude!!! Otherwise, most people have some form of HPV. They're warts... Yeah their unsightly, but mostly harmless.

eunice49508 Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 172	Wed 07/30/08 08:19 PM
Be glad she told you....lots of folks out there just spreading stuff around, but ultimately you take responsibility for YOUR actions and behaviors!!

yayforchae Joined Sun 01/13/08 Posts: 3135	Wed 07/30/08 08:20 PM Edited by yayforchae on Wed 07/30/08 08:22 PM
I used to be a peer health ed counselor so I know my stuff... condoms don't protect against HPV. It's a skin to skin transmitted std it depends on the strand. There are hundreds. Some cause warts, some can cause cancer, some have no symptoms at all, some just make women have abnormal papsmears... The noncancer or wart causing onces leave your system within 2 years.. so really it depends on the strand...

the_guy_45 Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 5	Wed 07/30/08 08:21 PM
Yeah, what she said

merlin2525 Joined Sun 06/17/07 Posts: 2819	Wed 07/30/08 08:21 PM
condoms don't protect against HPV. it depends on the strand. There are hundreds. Some cause warts, some can cause cancer, some have no symptoms at all, some just make women have abnormal papsmears... The noncancer or wart causing onces leave your system within 2 years.. so really it depends on the strand... now I know to just get oral

Dangerous_Kitchen Joined Mon 06/02/08 Posts: 2897	Wed 07/30/08 08:26 PM
go for it! a little texture is nice

Riding_Dubz Joined Wed 05/21/08 Posts: 22110	Wed 07/30/08 08:26 PM Edited by Riding_Dubz on Wed 07/30/08 08:27 PM
now I know to just get oral

907daydreamer Joined Thu 06/19/08 Posts: 2829	Wed 07/30/08 08:31 PM
Protection does not prevent the spread of HPV. Every person carries an inactive strain of the virus and many people carry an active strain but never show physical symptoms. Men can carry the virus, never show a physical symptom, test negative and still pass it on to a sexual partner who may or may not show physical symptoms. So don't advise people to simply "wear a condom" or "wrap it up". To answer the question...I would have to make it clear that there would be no physical relationship.

YamilethJ Joined Thu 11/01/07 Posts: 463	Wed 07/30/08 08:33 PM
If you started seeing someone, and before any real developments took place were informed by this person that they had hpv - human papilomma virus? I think this person it is responsible enough to let you know that ...there's people would not even care about spreading disease to you ...i think it is very brave from this person to let you know before anything happen...you must consider also that it must be difficult to let you know that being affraid of the rejection.

writer_gurl Joined Sat 03/01/08 Posts: 7673	Wed 07/30/08 08:43 PM
My reaction: DuDe,that sucks!!

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Wed 07/30/08 08:56 PM
Men can carry the virus, never show a physical symptom, test negative and still pass it on to a sexual partner who may or may not show physical symptoms. Umm...according to this....unless you simply aren't told..you aren't looking at physical contact with ANYONE...EVER....lol I mean....sheesh....even if he tests clean...it's still there right??? lol

907daydreamer Joined Thu 06/19/08 Posts: 2829	Wed 07/30/08 11:20 PM
Men can carry the virus, never show a physical symptom, test negative and still pass it on to a sexual partner who may or may not show physical symptoms. Umm...according to this....unless you simply aren't told..you aren't looking at physical contact with ANYONE...EVER....lol I mean....sheesh....even if he tests clean...it's still there right??? lol Yeah one of my girlfriends was in the exact situation posed by the OP. She started dating a guy who told her he had HPV, so we called the CDC and spoke with a nurse who explained exactly how contagious HPV is. I asked her to clarify that point exactly like 3 times in the hour we kept her on the phone getting answers to questions we have never had the nerve to ask anyone else. There aren't hundreds of strands of the virus, more like 30 something. Guardisil, the vaccine that has been distributed predominantly to those who haven't become sexually active yet, protects against 4 of those strands, the two that are most likely to cause cervical cancer and the two that are most prone to cause the display of physical symptoms.