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.

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[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Just found your journal today and thought to weigh in on this one.

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The things is, as you probably know by now, a non-infected person is statistically more likely to catch HSV-2 from a person who *doesn't* know they have it, than they are to catch it from someone who knows that they do have it.

What I can't stand (as in, my feelings on the topic) is the hypocricy esposed by otherwise intelligent people who "will never sleep with someone infected becuase it's too risky", but who refuse to educate themselves on the diseases actual infection vectors, and yet who still continue to sleep with people-who-purport-themselves-to-be-disease-free in a blissful ignorance that this somehow makes them 100% free and clear of disease. Honeys, it doesn't work that way.

The best advice I can offer is Love who you Love. One thing having a communicable disease does for you is seperate out those who care unconditionally for your happiness/well-being and those who do not, whatever their selfish motivations. -H...