Allen Carbon wrote:
Who here has it?

is non of yours bisiness that i have her peas

Laura UnBound wrote:
You think MM is a safe environment to disclose a highly stigmatized STD?







Thats cute.

well if most people have it then the stigma should be defeated?

r T p wrote:


is non of yours bisiness that i have her peas

i needs to know

Allen Carbon wrote:

well if most people have it then the stigma should be defeated?

What should happen and what does happen are two completely different things

r T p wrote:


is non of yours bisiness that i have her peas

ahaha

Laura UnBound wrote:
What should happen and what does happen are two completely different things

agreed

just one more means of sex shaming in this country :sigh:

it doesnt matter if we all have it or all are doing it,  if theres a fictitious moral high ground to be forged,  there will always be people clawing to the top and pointing fingers down below

Laura UnBound wrote:

What should happen and what does happen are two completely different things

Seems like one person here is perpetuating the stigma while the other doesn't really care about it and just wants to post an interesting fact.

hmm

Allen Carbon wrote:

Seems like one person here is perpetuating the stigma while the other doesn't really care about it and just wants to post an interesting fact.

hmm

You didn't just post a fun fact, you asked people to disclose personal sexual information to the public under the guise that mm is a safe and judge-free environment to do so.

One of us is just being realistic.

Laura UnBound wrote:
under the guise that mm is a safe and judge-free environment to do so.

YOU MEAN IT'S NOT?

JadeDRed wrote:
Never been tested but I reckon I've caught at least two herpes virus and one of them is very likely to be HSV1.

As I have mentioned before most people are asymptomatic, which is not the same as not being infected.

And chicken pox is herpes.

(Oh shit guys, it's almost two in the morning, don't get me started researching infectious diseases again, too interesting for the early hours of the morning)

and cold sores

Allen Carbon wrote:
In the U.S: 54% of 14-49 people have Herpes simplex 1.

HSV-1 is the principal cause of cold sores.

Worldwide: 60%-90%

That's HSV-1, not HSV-2, the principal cause of genital herpes.

80% of people with Herpes don't know about it.

That's because HSV-1 is an innocuous infection in the great majority of people.

haha! Who here has it?

I'm sure you do.

These statistics have been known for decades, so I don't see the point of bringing it up.

Laura UnBound wrote:
You think MM is a safe environment to disclose a highly stigmatized STD?







Thats cute.

I think you ought get your facts straight about herpes.

Cherrystone wrote:

I think you ought get your facts straight about herpes.

What, exactly, are the facts she's missing about herpes?

Laura UnBound wrote:
You didn't just post a fun fact, you asked people to disclose personal sexual information to the public under the guise that mm is a safe and judge-free environment to do so.

One of us is just being realistic.

lol mm isn't a safe and judge-free environment?! crap! i have been mislead

Tony-S wrote:

Allen Carbon wrote:
In the U.S: 54% of 14-49 people have Herpes simplex 1.

HSV-1 is the principal cause of cold sores.

Worldwide: 60%-90%

That's HSV-1, not HSV-2, the principal cause of genital herpes.

80% of people with Herpes don't know about it.

That's because HSV-1 is an innocuous infection in the great majority of people.


I'm sure you do.

These statistics have been known for decades, so I don't see the point of bringing it up.

Quote 1. okay
Quote 2. I didn't say it wasn't?
Quote 3. Yes thats about right?
Quote 4. Lol no i'm good!

and lastly I just found out about it!

JadeDRed wrote:
Never been tested but I reckon I've caught at least two herpes virus and one of them is very likely to be HSV1.

As I have mentioned before most people are asymptomatic, which is not the same as not being infected.

And chicken pox is herpes.

(Oh shit guys, it's almost two in the morning, don't get me started researching infectious diseases again, too interesting for the early hours of the morning)

Lol is chicken pox herpes?! I didn't know! see everyone. These are fun facts. Let's have fun with them.

Allen Carbon wrote:

Lol is chicken pox herpes?! I didn't know! see everyone. These are fun facts. Let's have fun with them.

Yeah! Discussions about STIs are fun!

Alabaster Crowley wrote:

Yeah! Discussions about STIs are fun!

i think the more we say it, the less power the word will have.

Allen Carbon wrote:

i think the more we say it, the less power the word will have.

It will always be a very personal matter. It will never be "fun."

Alabaster Crowley wrote:

It will always be a very personal matter. It will never be "fun."

Oh wait did we stop being sarcastic? I didn't get the memo.
If 'herpes' is indeed something as small as a chicken pox, then why is it such a personal matter?

Robb Mann wrote:
I regularly give blood. I'm pretty sure they'd tell me if I did.

Just a random question about blood giving. I regularly give blood here in NZ, i'm up to 18. We can only give blood after 3 months.

Is it true you get paid to give blood there? Here it's completely voluntary.

Robb Mann wrote:
I regularly give blood. I'm pretty sure they'd tell me if I did.

Question 10 http://www.blood.ca/CentreApps/Internet … enDocument

Herpes is not blood-borne

http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-b … ed_Disease


And they have no reason to tell you, its not life-threatening, and they dont have time to call up the thousands of donators they get every day to inform them of their various illnesses. If it were HIV, maybe, since you're legally required to report when you test positive. And then you'd probably get the call from the CDC or someone, not the bloodbank.  But not herpes

Allen Carbon wrote:

Oh wait did we stop being sarcastic? I didn't get the memo.
If 'herpes' is indeed something as small as a chicken pox, then why is it such a personal matter?

Not all herpes is chicken pox... What don't you understand?

Allen Carbon wrote:

Just a random question about blood giving. I regularly give blood here in NZ, i'm up to 18. We can only give blood after 3 months.

Is it true you get paid to give blood there? Here it's completely voluntary.

You can get paid, depending on where you donate. I usually give at blood drives at work. I get paid in orange juice and a small pack of dry chocolate chip cookies. Occasionally I get something cool like a red-cross or MASH style insulated bag, but my sister claims those.

Allen Carbon wrote:

Oh wait did we stop being sarcastic? I didn't get the memo.
If 'herpes' is indeed something as small as a chicken pox, then why is it such a personal matter?

Herpes and chicken pox belong to the same family of viruses, but that does not make them the same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpesviridae

And its a personal matter because HSV is largely seen as a sexually transmitted disease, whereas chicken pox, shingles, etc are not. Peoples sexual health is generally seen as personal, especially when theres a possibility of facing ridicule.

Robb Mann wrote:
You can get paid, depending on where you donate. I usually give at blood drives at work. I get paid in orange juice and a small pack of dry chocolate chip cookies. Occasionally I get something cool like a red-cross or MASH style insulated bag, but my sister claims those.

Our high school did blood drives and I tried to do them every time just to get out of class, but I didn't weigh enough at the time. Someone brought doughnuts once

Robb Mann wrote:

You can get paid, depending on where you donate. I usually give at blood drives at work. I get paid in orange juice and a small pack of dry chocolate chip cookies. Occasionally I get something cool like a red-cross or MASH style insulated bag, but my sister claims those.

NZ gives gifts depending on how much you've given. From memory it was,
1. sticker
5. Key Chain
10. Stress ball
15. Cup (That's my last gift sadly )
25. Shirt
50. A car. I don't know I can't remember. I just know what was coming up next and how far away it was.

Vintagevista wrote:
So, a large percentage of the population that have had cold sores are just lumped in those statistics?

Yup, cold sores and/or chicken pox. I really don't know the stats but I would be willing to bet that a significant percentage of people with herpes did not receive it sexually.

Vintagevista wrote:
So, a large percentage of the population that have had cold sores are just lumped in those statistics?

Apparently so.  According to CDC, the rate of genital herpes in Americans 14-49 is about 1 in 6.

And, BTW, chicken pox is a different virus than genital herpes.