One of my exe's got herpes.. It's not clear whether she got it while we were still together (I found out cheating was not uncommon for her) or after the breakup, but I used condoms everytime (Still do.. I advise you guys to do so too) and I got no symptoms whatsoever.. And I think I'd be able to see rash on my penis
I don't know about the media tho, if it's overestimated or not... I'd just watch out, use condoms.. Pretty much everthing you can do, really
That's thinking the condom prevents every STD or STI.
HIV / AIDS, herpes, chlamydia, mononucleosis, ... those are pretty scary names (at least they were/are? for me) ...
I had a classmate saying she got mononucleosis just by speaking too close with a female friend (saliva exchanged), she got one month in bed (it lowers your energy apparently).
Apparently, the only effect of chlamydia is to lower the fertility of a woman, so no dangerous to men. (taken from one of Jimmy Carr dvd, so maybe not true)
Yeah, I also heard about some cases, when somebody caught mononucleosis "just by breathing air".
Mononucleosis is strange illness... You can have it, have absolutely no syptoms, no danger, but you can infect somebody else who may suffer symptoms.
Yeah the condoms and HIV is pretty interesting topic, since they claim HIV virus is smaller then the holes in the condom (Yes, condom's surface has little holes - sperm is much bigger than those, so it doesn't go through). But thing is, there's been no real 100% HIV virus photo, none as far as I know...
Also my uncle who's been in war in Africa etc, he's got some vaccines he's not been told what it's for.. He himself suspects it may be secret vaccine against some diseases.
Yeah Herpes is dangerous but it's not life-threatening. It just makes your genitals look like shit sometime and it hurts, when the rash (or whatever it's called) comes...
Just some info you guys may not come across..