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Originally Posted by good times
In regards to genital Herpes, I would personally be surprised if the actual statistic among swingers was more than 1 in 100. I have often wondered after reading a lot of studies on this, how they come up with these numbers. My only conclusion is the obvious, that they pick them out of thin air. The reason I say that is because none of the studies, or even all of the studies combined to date, have studied enough of the general population to come up with a statistic that is even close to being a reliable number.
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Well the numbers here (which are exaggerated its closer to 18%) are real, kinda....
That number is the number of people who are serropositive, in other words they have anti-bodies to HSV-2 in their system. This does not mean they have herpes only that they were exposed to it at some point.
The EXPRESSED incidence of genital herpes 2 is 1.8-.4% of the population.
So your guess isn't too off. If swingers are part of the 'general' population, somewhere between 1-2 in 100 swingers will have HSV-2.