[EmpyreanPleasur]

Everyone has facts and opinions...here are mine.

First, women who have cervical dysplasia have HSV. Most doctors don't explain this to them. Cervical cancer is almost exclusively caused by HSV. Many women are only diagnosed by having a cervical biopsy when an abnormal pap smear comes up.

On top of that, not only can you be a carrier or an "aymptomatic shedder" but someone can have ONE tiny little lesion and be unaware of it - remember, the lesions are not only located on the genitals but on the cervix as well.

Given this, it is no wonder that most people dont know they have it and how rampantly it is spreading.

Also, you can be a carrier or be infected but it lies dormant for YEARS and then becomes active, so you may never know where or when you contracted it if you've been sexually active with more than one partner in your life.

Herpes carries a stigma to it as it has for many years, but I think we really need to learn to accept it as a part of life. It is a VIRUS. No different from a cold. Just because it is passed on sexually, that does not make it a "dirty" disease or make the person who has it dirty.

Dropping this stigma will make people more open to learning about it, getting themselves diagnosed and treated and even prevent more deaths as cervical cancer is easy to treat IF FOUND EARLY. No one WANTS to have it, but I think society is going to have a bigger problem if they don't start recognizing it and get over the reputation it has because eventually it may become a matter of not IF you get it but WHEN will you get it.