consider this a poll

[chhotii]

On koshmom's suggestion, I am asking a direct question. I've been too lame to sign up as a paid user, so I don't think I can do an official "poll", but your feedback is requested. (Anonymous ok.)

This is apropos nothing.

Please indicate which of these most closely matches your feelings/opinions on the subject of "herpes" (HSV-2, to be precise):

1. I would never date someone with herpes. Surely a blister on Mr. Happy would be a fate worse than death.

2. If the right person came along, a minor skin condition wouldn't stand between us. Not that I'd rush into being physical with someone with herpes-- better to take things slow, and be sure that they are the right person, before risking anything.

3. I am impervious! I have genitalia of stainless steel! C'mon and ooze all over me, baby!

Thanks.

Comments

[quietann.livejournal.com]

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However, if someone with (genital) herpes didn't tell me they had it, I'd be pretty mad. or, as was the case when I dated a guy with herpes (pre-elbows) and he told me that it was *my* responsibility to not get it from him, that he'd just do whatever he wanted unless I "examined" him and noticed something and told him not to... well, that was just completely unreasonable.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

What an ineffective way to divide up the responsibility. Frankly, your ex sounds like kind of a jerk.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

oh, this was the *least* of his sins. It all makes for an entertaining (at this point, almost 10 years later) "Boyfriend from Hell" story....