>Get BJ on prom night
>Week later massive red spot on cock
>Herpes
>Fuck
>doctor say this shit is
uncurable
>No woman will want me
>Struggle with shame and depression
>Lose all interest in sex
>Go years without being with a woman
>Finally regain some self confidence
>Brainwave.exe
>Need woman who already has the disease
>Find old hooker on craigslist
>Looks pretty ragged on the blurred photo
>Has probably had a million diseased cocks in her
>Call her up
>Explain I have herpes
>Tell her I presume she has it too
>Silence
>Then she hangs up
I dont know where to go from here brosFinally some actually rare Pepe’s
I got HSV-2 after my longtime partner cheated on me, and it’s absolutely miserable. I wouldn’t recommend anyone take it as lightly as some people do. During the first outbreak I couldn’t pee at all because it was blocking my urinary tract, and it felt like I had a horrible flu. I get outbreaks constantly and they’re so painful that it’s hard to sit at my computer at work. The daily pills are massive and give me a stomach ache, and only reduce the frequency of the outbreaks but don’t prevent them entirely.
I never asked for this, I was never promiscuous, I only did not use protection because we were in a monogamous relationship for 4 years. Dating is hard enough because I’m trans and ugly, so I’ve resigned myself to just never having sex again.
I’m so sorry :(
This happened to my wife, FWIW, from an old horrible partner (abusive too, v cool). Her outbreaks got milder over time to where now they’re a minor inconvenience at most. And they don’t get in our way, so to speak.
Even though, yes, some folks are now preemptively and permanently out of your dating pool, I’d argue that a lot of the people self-excluding in that way have done you a favor.
Love is strong stuff! I can imagine how low you feel about this, but I hope you allow space for it to improve over time and you don’t give up on having a sex life or romantic partners. You’re worthy of love, this dumb (and seriously common) disease can’t change that :)
Be careful with those greentexts.
Now that the source has run out, they’re irreplaceable artifacts.I’m rationing my greentexts. I only read one line a day
It’s fine, I can easily search 8chan and find greentexts an order of magnitude more deranged. This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg, thankfully/unfortunately
8chan still exists?
Even when it didn’t exist, it was still there, insidiously, silently lurking within the confines of /b/ by actively posting most of the content on /b/. Now, they hide in the shadows of their public website where they scheme, hypothesize, plot, and ponder about why they don’t have girlfriends and why women should be gutted on sight for the glory of Q. Devilishly subtle bunch
“why savor a fine bordeux when the local liquor store has horse tranquilizer in plastic jugs” mfer
Back in the day I thought that of /b/.
Those were simpler times. A more… civilized age.Back when /b/ was a containment board, not the whitehouse
I’m surprised it’s still down (just checked)
I’m not. The site was running on old software a decade ago and hasn’t been touched. I’d be surprised if they don’t swipe another chan software and just slapped a coat of paint on it, but I don’t expect them to be rushing to get the site back online after they got entirely rinsed.
Pretty sure there are sites specifically for and sites that have filters for people who have certain STDs (HSV1, HSV2, AIDS, etc.) so affected people can still get together without worrying about spreading diseases.
I forget which one it is, but even one of the mainstream sites had an option for this years ago when I was dating. OK Cupid? Plenty of Fish? I think it might’ve been one of those.
Literally ⅔ of all humanity has at least one type of HSV. It is not the end of the world.
is it? i honestly have no idea?
what are the implications on quality of life of various STDs? how “bad” is it to catch herpes? is it even worth avoiding it? (as i read somewhere that most people catch it eventually anyways.)
There’s two variants. One is extremely harmless and is generally oral. This is the one that nearly everyone has and no one really notices. The other variant is generally genital (though either one can be in either place) and is more severe and less common. The first outbreak can be really bad, subsequent ones less so. An estimated 1 in 10 adults in the US have it, though I’d imagine it skews a lot more towards highly sexually active communities. It can be transmitted even if you don’t actively have sores, though that’s much rather. Condoms also don’t prevent transmission, though again they make it much more unlikely. While getting it certainly doesn’t have to be the end of the world it is worse than they generally say.
Here’s the really fun part of the above stat: the majority of those cases are spread via family members kissing.
Hey, it’s 1 in 10 for the genital version in the U.S. Not common. When someone dismissively says “oh it’s not that bad, it’s not the end of the world”, they’re not the ones who had to deal with pain of taking shits with sores in their ass. To deal with having a hard time being able to tell the difference between gas, liquid, and solids knocking at the door while on stool softeners to help make shits less painful. They’re not the ones who have to have the downright humiliating “oh by the way I have herpes, are you ok with that” talk. (They never are).The fact is, it’s debilitated me mentally and physically. The scarring from it has taken all the pleasure away from anal for me, and it still hurts to shit half the time. Don’t treat it so fucking lightly.
i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience and i don’t mean to diminish what you’re don’t through, but it’s also very important to note that this is far from the normal for the very large majority of people
fear doesn’t help sexual health… all sex comes with risks, and unprotected sex comes with significantly increased risk but the reality is by and large this is not what HSV looks like without other factors effecting it
downplaying risks is bad, but equally bad is people thinking a condition is worse than it is. this leads to more risky behaviour, because if they get the “scary” thing and it’s not as bad as they expect, they can take risky behaviour because they discount all their other education
it also only reinforces stigmas. this is particularly common with HIV-positive people: these days, if you have an undetectable viral load (if you take your daily medications) you can not pass on HIV… however the stigma remains, and people still often choose to not have sex with someone with an undetectable HIV infection (again, undetectable IS UNTRANSMITTABLE)
muddying the waters is very bad at scale
calm, unbiased information is what is required for public health. individual anecdotes about worst case scenarios do not serve to make people’s lives better
Telling people it’s no big deal is doing them a direct misservice. By all means it should be destimized but you should also be honest about the risks and realities of what it can mean. What happened to me might be a worse case scenario but the average first breakout is still way worse than you would have people believe, and people should know what can actually happen. I’m so sick of people being dismissive of it.
Half the time when I’m confiding in a friend about how my life has and is still going downhill and I tell them about the herpes the first words out of their mouth is “it’s no big deal, everyone has it” and it makes me feel so alone. It can be a big deal and it’s not as common as people make out.
1/3 club 😎🤏
And it’s not infectious when it’s asymptomatic.
Thats false! “Transmission may still occur when symptoms are not present.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes
And it’s asymptomatic most of the time. 😚
Where can I find more info on this? You’ve peaked my curiosity and I want to learn more about HSV and how it works.
- piqued my curiosity…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/pique-vs-peak-vs-peek
Nah, OP has reached peak curiosity, it’s all downhill from here.
i choose this explanation. nothing is or will be as interesting as this question I asked at 3am
It works by making fucking ugly sore blisters on/around my mouth a couple times a year. they dry out and crust off after a week or so and i get on with my life.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simplex-virus
Huh, either I dont know I have it or I got lucky. Thats crazy. I imagine an STD test would pick up HSV-2 but I wonder if it also picks up the oral variant. Ive never actually noticed any symptoms on myself. This is actually crazy though I didnt know this, I feel like more people should. TIL lol
No one tests for HSV1 ever unless you have a bad active outbreak.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47447/
Worldwide, ∼90% of people have one or both viruses. HSV-1 is the more prevalent virus, with 65% of persons in the United States having antibodies to HSV-1 (Xu et al., 2002). The epidemiology in Europe is similar, with at least half of the population seropositive for HSV-1. In the developing world, HSV-1 is almost universal, and usually acquired from intimate contact with family in early childhood
2/3 of the population UNDER 50 have some form of HSV, but virtually every person autopsied that died over the age of 60 will have HSV-1. It’s THAT common. That’s why they don’t test.
I got tested once and the doctor told me testing for herpes is pointless because most everyone has the antibodies in their body due to how common it is. The test gives false positives most of the time.
You can totally also be asymptomatic for your whole life and not know it. It is also useful to know that “oral herpes” doesn’t exclusively affect your mouth, and “genital herpes” doesn’t exclusively affect your genitals. Just more often. Both types can appear in both locations. The hypothetical person from the greentext would likely have contracted oral herpes. I’m not sure how that works with STD tests, though.
In my experience most standard STD panels will test for HSV-2 but not 1, usually you’d have to special request it
a full STI screen is for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhoea
blood test - for syphilis, HIV throat swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea anal swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea urine - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea
afaik they sometimes tack on general biochemistry (sodium, potassium, etc) to the blood test, as well as some other things like mycoplasma genitalium but these are not standard 3-monthly tests
afaik it’s very rare to test for HSV at all, for various reasons
And even when you ask about it, your doc will probably say that the test isn’t worth doing because of how common HSV is and how inaccurate the test is.
- source - one of my partners just requested a full STI panel and the doc told her that
The important and nastiest part of HSV is some strains cause cervical cancer in women, so men with HSV must take care not to spread something that has the potential to kill their partner. There is a vaccine, but it doesn’t work 100%.
the vaccine is very effective, and also that’s HPV
Are you sure that you don’t mean HPV?
Indeed, the cancer thing applies to women with HPV, a virus that most people have also been affected with (though the vast majority of cases do not lead to cancer which still leaves tens of million of women at risk).
Men can get cancers from HPV too, it’s a good idea for everyone to get vaccinated.
And even without the risk of cancer you still just lower the risk for any warts appearing
Or spreading it to others.
Well, yeah, I seem to mess them up - HPV is the one with vaccine, HPS is similar in that it can be a cause of cervical cancer, but the matter is less researched and I don’t know about a vaccine.
Nah, cervical cancer is down to such an extent in the vaccinated cohorts that we can confidently say that it was the HPV causing it. Those vaccinations have been a massive, massive success. Much more than expected by public health scientists.
Also throat cancer in men.
You are both talking about HPV, not HSV.
Yep, sorry, they can both cause cancer, but HPV is the one people can get vaccinated against.
Tell me you have herpes without saying you have herpes.
1/3 gang represent. Passed midlife, still clean. I didn’t find my penis in the trash bin.
I didn’t find my penis in the trash bin.
but have you looked behind the couch?
That’s like saying blood out of your ass happens to everyone when most cases are just hemorrhoids and some are cancer.
Anon, who’d you get the BJ from? They can’t give it to you again…
This is a common misconception and the leading cause of Turbo herpes outbreaks.
Stay safe kids
Source?
Um, it happened to a friend of mine
it’s the same with turbo aids and turbo autism
I had two autistic roommates in college, and somehow I got out of there with only a mild infection.
Make sure you sign up to be an organ donor. If you ever get hit by a bus, RFK can eat your corpse so the worm can study your immunity and move us one step closer to a cure.
Turbo AIDS? You know that is just a made up name, right?
Everyone knows it’s called Super AIDS™
You can’t get it multiple times from the same partner unless it’s hsv-1,and even then it’s rare after you’ve built up a resistance to the virus and they’d need to be in an active outbreak.
But yes, you can migrate the location of hsv1, the most common herpes type (incorrectly referred to as oral herpes). You want to be especially careful if it migrates to your facial area beyond your mouth/lips as occular herpes can cause blindness, and if it spreads to your nose and brain, there’s a real chance you could die.
These are rare in first world countries though and are typically seen in places without access to clean water and sanitation.
Source? The same cock they sucked the first time, obviously
Fake: Anon getting a blowjob Gay: Anon pretending to have a disease as explanation of never touching a women
HSV2 dating sites be lit though.
Do you ask a woman before kissing here if she has any diseases?
I ask to inspect her anus with a flashlight. Halogen preferred.
Is this not a common courting technique?
Most people use less harsh lighting.
thats hot!
If they don’t have a sore, they
aren’t infectiousare less infectious, but frankly, if this isn’t something she tells you before it gets intimate, that’s a red flag in my book. One of my exes had HSV and she disclosed everything to me beforehand. I kinda freaked out internally at first and considered breaking it off, but then I actually researched it and found out there’s not a risk if they’re not having a breakout (still use protection of course).Things didn’t work out because of other reasons, but it was a pretty good relationship while it lasted and I don’t regret it. I still have a clean bill of health, no infections so if you meet someone that has HSV, try to keep in mind it doesn’t necessarily have to be a deal breaker as long as your partner is honest with you and you take precautions.
Edited to correct a factual error.
“Transmission may still occur when symptoms are not present.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes
Good to know. Wrap your jimmy and use lots of lube, that’s what we did and I never got infected. That’s just good general advice when it comes to sex though.
Also there are different Herpes strains.
Where does GT go? Outside, and stop being a pussy, making up bullshit on the internet.
