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Would you enter a relationship with someone with genital herpes?
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66% of people have oral herpes
13% of people have genital herpes
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-05-2020-massive-proportion-world-population-living-with-herpes-infection
Then you have someone give their partner head and no one can tell which kind of herpes they have without tests, because as far as I know they supposedly present the same.
Well unless it starts showing itself downstairs
Both kinds can infect anywhere on the body, they just each have a zonal preference.
Right but only 13% have it down in that zone.
No, only 13% have the kind that specializes in your genitals. Where they have it and the other kind is not a part of the static. (However it's pretty likely the numbers sort of self-balance and it ends up that about 13% of people have one of the herpes virus on/near their junk.)