little_tippler

She should take it seriously. Really. This is commonly called genital warts. Human Papilloma Virus is a virus that stays, like herpes. you can transmit it or get it even with a condom, because it's not only in the genitals area, it can be in all the surrounding genital skin. You can transmit it even when there are no visible signs of it. You can have it for up to a year and not know. The effects on your sexual health can be pretty bad. Besides the uncomfortable and sometimes painul warts, in women, it can lead to cervical cancer (if you get a bad strain), and you can transmit it to your baby. This in turn can cause them a lifelong illness where they grow warts in their throat and need surgery regularly to remove them. You can get HPV in your throat too, through oral sex (this is rare). I think people who have HPV need to be aware of how this is something you can give to someone else for life, and you should have the responsibility to tell your sexual partners you have this, and also what it could mean for your health. Most people have a less aggressive strain that appears only on the outer labia (for women), and then with some luck they never have a visible sign of it again. But the virus is still there, it never goes away.

can it really be 75% of the world's population? sounds like a lot!

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918