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Sunday, November, 22, 2009
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Sex with herpes

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I'm 21 years old, trying to cope.

I'm 21 and have lived a normal life before I found out. I've made...

Alley_Cat

Thursday, July 09, 2009
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I was just told that I have herpes. I'm  so scared because I'm only 21 and now I feel like I can't enjoy the sexual liberation (with protection of course) that twenty-somethings get to enjoy. Will I ever be able to have sex without a condom again? Will I ever be able to have oral sex performed on me? What about manual sex? This seems like a whole other world. I'm so upset, this seems surreal. Why did this have to happen to me? Why am I suddenly the statistic? Why am I the one people have to make an example out of?

This is just so heartbreaking.

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There are two types of HSV, HSV type 1 and 2, and both can cause genital herpes.

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