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Sleeping with people with genital herpes?
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--- Quote from: Linds on 21 Feb 2008, 18:06 ---health and human sex class
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I support the title of this class due to its specific title. It implies to me that somewhere in the curriculum is a health and giraffe sex class.
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Health was one class, human sexuality was a different class. The latter was the one I took in college and was definitely the more interesting of the two. Maybe somewhere there is a giraffe sexuality class! You never know.
calenlass:
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--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 21 Feb 2008, 16:25 ---To the best of my knowledge, cold sores are not a permanent condition, whereas genital herpes is. One can lead to the other, allegedly, if you engage in oral sex with someone with cold sores, said cold sores can transmit to genital herpes.
On the other hand, this could very well be one of those sex urban legends. I myself am not willing to try and find out first hand, though.
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Genital herpes are just cold sores on your genitals. Cold sores are just herpes on your mouth. They're both permanent conditions. Once you have herpes, you will always have herpes in you. You may not ever have an outbreak, but you will still have the virus laying dormant inside you.
Two main strains are herpes are simplex 1 and simplex 2. 1 is commonly found orally while 2 is commonly found genitally, but both can infect any area. You can have herpes on your eye.
You can receive genital herpes by receiving oral sex from someone with cold sores, and vice versa.
According to the CDC, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 8 men have genital herpes. It is likely that it male-to-female transmission is easier than female-male transmission. It is likely that someone with herpes doesn't know they have herpes.
Transmission is far less likely between outbreaks than during.
What do they teach kids in school these days anyway? Jesus.
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This is mostly true, I think. However, according to my gynecologist, who may or may not be full of shit, simplex 1 doesn't always "take" if you were to get it in the genital region (i.e., your immune system generally destroys it). I gathered from what he said, although I'm still not clear on it, simplex 1 tends to clear up on its own more often than simplex 2 ever will, like the way there are some kids who manage to get rid of HIV infections somehow.
est:
I would not do this ever and I don't understand why anyone else would. Perhaps if you fell in love with someone and it turned out they had it that could be a different story, but casual sex with someone that has a rather easily-transmittable and incurable STD doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
ForteBass:
It's pretty much a bad idea.
Of course, if you're really into russian roulette, then it's a good idea.
But only if you're really into it.
E. Spaceman:
I am sure we can all agree that purposefully swabbing your dick in herpes is a bad idea
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