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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
So your advise is to dump the honest well-informed socially responsible chick, and hope if the next girl he dates is in the 25% or whatever that has herpes, she also is well informed and socially responsible enough to tell him?
I'm not advocating he try to catch herpes, I'm saying that this is a pretty ridiculous reason to break up with someone. What if she had the flu? That's contagious...Dump her and get the fuck out? Everyone he has sex with in his whole life is capable of transmitting the STD known as 'child support payments..."
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Seriously.
You've got to give her points for being open and honest about it, because there are a ton of people--women and men--who wouldn't be. And it's not just limited to herpes--HPV is another all-too-common silently passed STD. anonymous, your next partner might not be so up front with you about their history and health.
It is a risk--but every relationship comes with risks, just none so obvious as this. Keep that in mind when you try and put this in perspective. So you have to ask yourself--is it worth the risk? Sometimes the answer is yes, and you step up and roll the dice. Sometimes the answer is no. Or, in this case, the answer could be "let's wait and see where this is really going before getting physical." Only YOU can answer that question. We can give you advice and our take on it until we're blue in the face, but the only person whose opinion REALLY matters is YOURS. Is it worth the risk to you?