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Edit: Oh geez. I guess I might’ve just gotten worked up on just the stigma. Hell, I wonder if I gave it to her now. I’ve slept around way more than her.

Edit 2: I cut out the whole long story because I’m a bit embarrassed to have overthought it so much and I guess it’s not really relevant. I’ll leave the post up so maybe other anxious people can see the responses.

The spark notes version is: I loved a girl and let her go and when she came back, she and I worried about her having herpes.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, who gives a fuck? more people have it than don't.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Above someone posted a stat that only 13% have genital herpes

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wikipedia says 60-95% of adults

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are we reading the same article?

In 2015, about 846 million people (12% of the world population) had genital herpes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genital_herpes

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, I was looking at the page for Herpes in general. My bad. Have a look at that if you're interested.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the thread overall has a lot of people talking about herpes in general instead of specifically genital herpes. I wonder if OP edited the title or what

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Same answer for me still. Most people who have it are asymptomatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4VcOQzQm0

[–] FRYD@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah sorry, I did edit the title from just herpes to genital herpes after like the first two comments. I didn’t want the post to just be all edit notes. I don’t know which type she has and I didn’t initially understand the distinction. I know she has it down there and takes daily antivirals. I think the general information is still useful however because there’s a heavy stigma and the uniformed wouldn’t likely understand the distinctions like me.