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Just so everyone knows, you are so much more than your herpes. You are still beautiful. You are still a loving daughter, a fantastic friend, a supportive brother, a goofy dad. People still love you, your true friends are not going to cut you off, a significant other who truly loves you is not going to leave you.

If someone doesn’t want to be in your life because of a rash you get sometimes then you don’t want them in your life anyways! Surround yourself with your true friends, your true loves, because they’re going to love you no matter what.

hsvhippie

“The only 100%, foolproof “safe sex” there is, is no sex whatsoever. So to find yourself “smarter” or “better” than someone with an STD is downright cracked, sex shaming egotism.”

— (via herpesandhappy)

hardtoflex

Sometimes it’s exhausting being the punchline of others insensitive jokes.

Before I was diagnosed I didn’t realize that just how common STI jokes were. Like it was genuinely something I never even notice but now it’s everywhere and everyone has a laugh about it. And while I think I can take some pretty good jokes I think it’s interesting the way we are stepping on our own necks by continuing this weird phase of not feeling comfortable enough to actually talk about it but feeling way too comfortable joking about it. Our society loves hookup culture more than ever but the only way we can talk about STIs is through jokes that spread misinformation and a horrible stigma. Anyway…

livingwithhsv

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A post shared by Emily L. Depasse MSW MEd (@sexelducation)

Everytime someone asks me for bare anything I ask if they’re ok if I have herpes 😂 so many of them reply & say “as long as you’re medicated” or the most recent “as long as you’re not in the middle of an outbreak”….like these mfs really don’t give a fuck! I would NEVER do bare‼️

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