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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? |
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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? You mean it's safe for me to give myself a bl.. Oh nevermind.. |
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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? You are incorrect. After she told me I checked it out. There are two types of herpes virus, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is typically a cold sore in or around the mouth. However, if someone who has a cold sore and does oral sex, the virus will be transmitted to the the genitals. Herpes type 2 is more severe. I suggest looking the two up on med web sites like I did. |
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Lily0923
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Fri 09/05/08 06:22 PM
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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? You are incorrect. After she told me I checked it out. There are two types of herpes virus, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is typically a cold sore in or around the mouth. However, if someone who has a cold sore and does oral sex, the virus will be transmitted to the the genitals. Herpes type 2 is more severe. I suggest looking the two up on med web sites like I did. Yes, but if you have not been exposed to the virus while in the womb, you are not in any danger of getting it, it is a virus passed from mother to child only... the virus that is, so if your mother did not have a cold sore when she was pregnant with you, you will never get one....My major in college was Community Health Education... |
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From STDWeb.com:
- 30% of all new cases of Genital Herpes results from HSV-1 the virus of "cold sores". - The difference between "genital" Herpes and "oral" Herpes is in location only, not viral type. - 50 to 80% of all Americans carry the antibodies to HSV-1. A staggering number of people, even those who have been infected for years, are unaware that these oral/facial outbreaks are a form of Herpes, and are therefore highly contagious. HSV-1 infection of the genital areas are passed via oral sex with someone who has a cold sore. Many people mistakenly refer to type 2 as "genital herpes," and type 1 as "oral herpes," when in fact, Herpes types 1 and 2 can and do infect either area. While many people have type 1 oral infections and type 1 or 2 genital infections as well, it is extremely rare for a person to have infections with type 1 and type 2 simultaneously in the same location. |
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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? You are incorrect. After she told me I checked it out. There are two types of herpes virus, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is typically a cold sore in or around the mouth. However, if someone who has a cold sore and does oral sex, the virus will be transmitted to the the genitals. Herpes type 2 is more severe. I suggest looking the two up on med web sites like I did. Yes, but if you have not been exposed to the virus while in the womb, you are not in any danger of getting it, it is a virus passed from mother to child only... the virus that is, so if your mother did not have a cold sore when she was pregnant with you, you will never get one....My major in college was Community Health Education... Read the above I posted from STDWeb. You may not have been exposed in the womb, but you are still at risk to catch it from someone who has it. No one is completely immune (carrying herpes anti-bodies is not immunity) from it and their is no cure. How do you account for 1 out of 4 Americans currently having genital herpes with the figures sky-rocketing? |
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I ran into this situation with a very lovely woman on our first date a month ago. She was forthwight and announced to me that she had genital herpes type 1. She said that she caught it from a man who had a cold sore and had oral sex with her. I appreciated her honesty and for giving me the choice rather than hiding it from me. I chose not to see her any further because I just don't want any STD's, especially herpes, the one that "keeps on giving". I feel bad for turning her down because she was so honest about it. Sadly, I know that her honesty and the men who have turned her down have to be very painful for her to endure. It's a situation where one wishes otherwise, but that's all you can do is wish because herpes is not something I or anyone else, I'm sure, would care to catch. You know that those are two totally seperate viruses and can't be contracted that way right? You are incorrect. After she told me I checked it out. There are two types of herpes virus, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is typically a cold sore in or around the mouth. However, if someone who has a cold sore and does oral sex, the virus will be transmitted to the the genitals. Herpes type 2 is more severe. I suggest looking the two up on med web sites like I did. Yes, but if you have not been exposed to the virus while in the womb, you are not in any danger of getting it, it is a virus passed from mother to child only... the virus that is, so if your mother did not have a cold sore when she was pregnant with you, you will never get one....My major in college was Community Health Education... Read the above I posted from STDWeb. You may not have been exposed in the womb, but you are still at risk to catch it from someone who has it. No one is completely immune (carrying herpes anti-bodies is not immunity) from it and their is no cure. How do you account for 1 out of 4 Americans currently having genital herpes with the figures sky-rocketing? the only way you can carry type 1 is if you were exposed to it in the womb.... That is the ONLY way you can carry the virus, now if you are exposed to it and never carried the antibodies you will NEVER get it... If you were exposed to the anitbodies with the amount of people who have it and if you eat yogurt or if you get stressed you have developed one in your lifetime, if you have not chances are you were never exposed to the antibody.... That's how it works... Passed from mother to child.... I am extremely aware of how it works, trust me on that.... I just wrote Kent State Universities ciriculum for the Health Ed department, did my research and did it fully.... |
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I hear what you are saying. The link below the home page for www.herpes.com I certainly don't believe that all of the herpes info sites on the net are wrong.
A quote from this page: "Genital herpes is usually transmitted by sexual intercourse. Direct inoculation of virus occurs through contact with infected secretions or mucosal surfaces. Orogenital contact with a partner with type 1 herpes labialis can also result in genital herpes. Asymptomatic shedding of HSV is the most common mode of transmission of genital herpes infection. It is estimated that more than half of the HSV-2 genital infections are asymptomatic." Also: "It is possible for a person to contract genital herpes if the partner with oral herpes performs oral sex. Oral herpes can be transmitted to the genitals, and vice versa. Symptoms are similar." http://www.herpes.com/genitalinfo.shtml If herpes.com (and the several other sites that are all in agreement about how herpes spreads) is wrong, I think that you should take it up with them. As far as I'm concerned, I won't put myself at risk and neither should anyone else. |
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BobbyJ is right. The guy I was with last had oral herpes and took valtrex, he never had a sore while I was with him, but still. It can definitely be contracted genitially if he had one.
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I would hope that they'd tell me before anything happened.  |
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I got checked after I left him. It's been 2 years, and....clean! yay me for not bein a dumbas*
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I got checked after I left him. It's been 2 years, and....clean! yay me for not bein a dumbas* Whew! That has to be a relief! Congrats! |
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Well I got three or four posts answering the question...
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I'm tellin you, it's dam scary that 1 out of 4 people has some form of herpes. And the fact you're stuck with it if you catch it.
What a major Oops that would be, ya? |
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