Herpes Doctor

As I read the posts on here, I continue to come across people saying things about herpes and sleeping around, or being "slutty", (which only refers to women, but that's another story). One that really caught my eye was a woman who said that she was intelligent, and "could come from Stuff magazine" and said she hated men, because a man gave her the virus (it's not a disease, but a virus, like the Flu) and he had been with women who "probably had it because they were so slutty." Things being said like that is the reason that everyone feels so damn shitty when they contract this virus. I got it from my live-in boyfriend of five years. I also am intelligent and attractive, but I'm not going around saying that the women he was with previously are "sluts" and that's why he got it. By reading this post, I believe that this woman had other issues that keep her from having fulfilling relationships with men, and now that she's had the same bad luck we all have, she's using that to lash out. Doesn't she see that by saying that about other women that she's saying about herself, as well? She even said that the guy was only "a friend with benefits," but she herself was not a slut, just the other women she was mad at.

People making comments like that one is the reasons why it is so hard to tell a partner about the virus. Even if the partners themselves have not voiced the same opinion, you know they are thinking of all the others they have heard saying things like that. The truth is-if people would stop being so fucking mean and judgmental, maybe there wouldn't be all of these mean stereotypes associated with this virus, and we wouldn't feel like it is impossible to have a loving relationship with someone. I did it, and now I have two children, and a man that loves me very much. Whom, by the way, only just recently caught it from me, and he doesn't care. It's not the end of the world, just a little inconvenient and uncomfortable at times.