Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Normal dating with herpes

I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE AN STD wrote in recently. She wanted to date but didn't know when to tell and how to tell. Here are some thoughts.

SAMANTHA: I'm a 25-year-old girl who was diagnosed with genital herpes when I was 18. I got it from receiving oral sex, which is something the majority of the public doesn't know is possible. One in five people carry the herpes virus, and many of them don't have any symptoms. The man I got herpes from thought his sore was a small burn mark on his lip!

For a couple of years after getting this disease, I felt very much like the woman who wrote to you, ICBIHASTD. Did this stop me from dating? Absolutely not. I found out very quickly that …

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