Of course, if you take that position to its extreme it means that every person that gets cold sores has a responsibility to inform anyone they kiss (even their grandmother), or anyone they share a drink with that they’re at risk of contracting a communicable disease.

What really chaps my ass is that nobody makes that big of deal about “cold sores”. If the guy had oral HSV, he never would have been kicked off the show. And yet, there is probably a non-trivial likelihood that oral HSV could transfer into an abrasion or cut on someone’s body. Why is that?

It’s like the disease itself doesn’t matter, it’s all about how you get it.

And by the way, it wasn’t an analogy. It was an example. And it wasn’t asinine. It clearly demonstrated my point: you wouldn’t call oral herpes a “sexually transmitted disease” or even a “communicable disease” even though it is both.

I don’t think we really disagree regarding an individual’s responsibility. I think we disagree about terminology and social conventions.

What a completely asinine analogy. If you know you have a sexually transmitted disease(herpes), it’s your obligation to tell your sexual partners about it. If you know you have a communicable disease(herpes), it’s your obligation to tell your training partners about it. There’s no gray zone. Throwing out %’s about who or who not may have it is just a red herring. That’s the bottom line but feel free to keep spewing your bullshit to try and muddy the subject.

War Paul Bradley!!!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89418330

This is just more Herpes bullshit. The level of ignorance and denial in our society surrounding Herpes Simplex Virus is simply astounding. People don’t give a shit about “cold sores” but get all freaked out about “sexually transmitted” herpes. What a fucking farce.

Paul Bradley is wrong on two counts: First, Herpes Gladiatorum is usually caused by HSV-I. Second, to describe HSV-I as “sexually transmitted”, while describing what he has (probably incorrectly described as HSV-II) as “transferred from the skin” is a misrepresentation. Technically all HSV infections (including what he has) could be sexually transmitted and ultimately, all of it is “transferred from the skin”. Obviously he’s saying it this way to change people’s perception of what he carries, but it’s simply dishonest (or more likely, ignorant).

HSV-I and HSV-II are basically the same thing. The principle difference is where they prefer to establish themselves in your body. HSV-I prefers the mouth while HSV-II tends to prefer the genitals. Note that I said “prefer” as there is no guarantee that genital herpes are type II nor that cold sores are type I.

The dude has HSV. Guess what? You probably do too.

One out of every five adults has HSV-II (genital, oral or elsewhere).
Three out of every five adults has HSV-I (genital, oral or elsewhere).
Two out of three of those people have symptoms too mild to notice.

Guess we all better stop rolling.

Next time you go down on someone (assuming you do that), remember that you could contract oral HSV (either I or II). When you start showing symptoms, would you tell people “Yeah dude, I totally got this sexually transmitted disease from that person”? Enough with the bullshit. Let’s just call it what it is: Herpes.

Read this:
http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html