The Herpes Thread!

Arthur - confessing it, or not, talking about it is a good thing all around.

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This thread explains a lot...

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littlek wrote:

Arthur - confessing it, or not, talking about it is a good thing all around.

I agree wholeheartedly. It can be a difficult thing to discuss, but the word needs to get out.
Pardon the intrusion. Please carry on.

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littlek wrote:

Chai, tis true. good work being careful. How long were you married for?

A little less than 2 years.

divorced him.....oh....in 1993. Rmarried in 1994

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Here is a government statistic on herpes, but not broken down into states

http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/tables/table47.htm

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I had a friend in college, way prior to the Internet, who used to start conversations (threads) about otherwise taboo topics, like STD's, cocaine addiction, sexual deviancy... etc. He always had lots of good looking women hanging around him. It didn't take much thought to realize that the reason they clung to him was because he discussed problems they were experiencing.... eewww.... grosss... just nasty.

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littlek wrote:

Would the vaccine for chicken pox be more effective for preventing herpes than having had chicken pox as a child? Both would build your immunities, but would they build the same way?

No littlek, as the VZV lays dormant after having had chickenpox and
can (doesn't have to) resurface in later years as shingles.

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Well, then, that's good news, Calamity!

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CalamityJane wrote:

Here is a government statistic on herpes, but not broken down into states

Those are some pretty good sized spikes in genital herpes in '77 and '91. I wonder what happened there.

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cjhsa wrote:

I had a friend in college, way prior to the Internet, who used to start conversations (threads) about otherwise taboo topics, like STD's, cocaine addiction, sexual deviancy... etc. He always had lots of good looking women hanging around him. It didn't take much thought to realize that the reason they clung to him was because he discussed problems they were experiencing.... eewww.... grosss... just nasty.

cj - please.

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100% true.

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I hope so, littlek!

We'll see what the statistics say in 10 - 15 years.

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cj - I think the story is fine. But, I'd like this to be a place where people can talk about the disease, whether they have it or not, without outbursts on herpes sufferers' 'grossness'.

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Head lice is still stigmatized so it is easy to understand why herpes is.

Somehow, someway I dodged the herpes bullet because I know that one lover had it and he was honest and we were careful but there might have been some others who might not have been so honest.

Honest and careful are the operative words in that sentence. People go to great lenghts to be with people they are attracted to, herpes is but a stubbed toe on the road to life.

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Right..... openness, honesty, trust, being careful. The problem is that all people can't abide by those rules. I'd like to see a herpes vaccine. Actually, I think there was one out there, in the test stage. I wonder what happened to it.

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It's probably laying dormant in the FDA basement.

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The key to everything in life is education, and as long as sex education
and STD's is a tabu subject in American schools, there won't be an
adequate prevention of herpes or any other STD's, despite possible vaccinations. Sad to say, but true!

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Education is one key, Calamity. But human nature, being impetuous and sexual, makes it so I think we need a back up plan. A vaccine would be good just to get the numbers down quickly. Reintroducing condom-use into sex ed would be a huge improvement. But, condom use is never popular. People don't like to use them.

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Especially not the pope. He hates using them.

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cj's visit here, along with this post from his hunting thread,

cjhsa wrote:

Does your baloney have an STD?

, is the exact attitude and reason why so many people with herpes feel ashamed and hide their infection. Since the rate is so high and indiscriminatory, there is a pretty good chance that he'll have a case in his family, or that a boyfriend or girlfriend of his kid or kids will. Hopefully, if that happens, he'll learn to be a little more understanding and kind.

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