Unless you are aware that you are being exposed to the genital herpes virus (i.e. knowing that your partner carries the virus and taking that calculated risk responsibly), it can be absolutely terrifying to find out you have contracted vaginal herpes.  The bottom line being that hearing, “You have herpes”, easily translates into having to say, I have herpes, and that can be enormously hard to accept. As an example, in 2004 a survey conducted by the American Social Health Association in 2004 found that 68% of randomly chosen respondents would find being diagnosed with genital herpes as, “very traumatic”.  To put this into perspective, there are more people that fear genital … [Read more...]