Is it possible that a person with genital herpes can engage in un protected sex with some one for long periods
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Yes and yes. Of the 1 in 4 women and 1 in 5 men that have genital herpes, 80% don't know they have it. A quarter of those truly have no symptoms, the others have symptoms so mild they dismiss it as something else, suh as yeast or jock itch. Herpes is more often mild and unnoticeable than it is serious. So many people never, ever know they are infected.
I have heard of couples who have been together for twenty of more years with one of them having herpes, and never having passed it to their partner, even though they are having unprotected sex, just by avoiding outbreaks. Others catch it within the first few weeks or months. When one partner gets herpes after 10 or twenty years together, it often leads to accusations of cheating, but this often is far from the truth as the virus can lie dormant for decades (although the person may still be infectious for a percentage of the time without knowing it).
Herpes in relationships is often the oral kind causing genital herpes. The oral kind is as infectious as genital herpes and can cause genital herpes through oral sex. I caught herpes after seven years with my partner, he had given me oral sex right through that time but it took me seven years to catch it. When I did catch it I was recovering from flu, so my immune system must have been low.
Yeah. But it can take up to a year before your sex partner gets it. I was with some who thought that he hepitis c. So try to use portection everytime you have sex with your sex partner.
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