Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix200 From: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: More Herpes Issues Message-ID: <1866@sdcc6.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 00:01:06 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc6.1866 Posted: Fri Jan 18 00:01:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 04:40:07 EST Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 46 I have been reading the net for about a month now and didn't follow the Herpes issue concerning the kid until it ran up against a more intimate side of my own life. Here's the deal: I have a friend that I have been going out with for some time now. For the most part it has just been recreational (read "no sex") and fun. One evening after making the rounds of a few clubs and such we wound up back at her place and I decided to try to move the relationship in a more intimate direction. It was at this point that she informed me that she has genital herpes, hence the strictly recreational relationship. She was interested in the physical side of a relationship but thought it only fair to let me know what was what. Being rather confused and unsure of how to act, I mellowed out and we talked about it for a while without my coming to any conclusions. Not having been on the net for very long I don't know if this issue has come up in this light before and so I beg your forgivness if it is old hat to some of you. I back-pedaled and read all of the herpes & kids articles that were still available to me and they left me all the more confused. There are two kinds of herpes (as far as i know). One kind that includes cancre sores, cold sores and sty's (sties??) in the eyes. The other kind is genital herpes. The first, herpes simplex one, is something that most everyone contracts at one point or another, I am still subject to it occasionally; no big deal. The other scares me. I intend to do some research on the physical aspects, but would like to do some research on the cultural aspects as well. I think the net would be a good place to start. Therefore I am interested in what you think. Would you date, sleep with, or attempt to carry on a serious relationship with someone that has the disease? Do you have any direct experience with the disease or someone who has it that you would be willing to share? Do you have anything else to contribute on the subject? I realize that this is a very touchy subject and I would rather you reply through the mail if it means keeping your mouth shut out of fear. If I recieve anything worthwhile I will post it and will maintain confidentiallity. -- Bruce "I have just begun considering the possibilities of the next disaster" Jones