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Wash Post article requires a subscription. I disagree  that almost everyone has herpes and no need to test. You cite an older research  article from  1994 when this infection was in fact more common. And in fact it states “The seroprevalence of HSV-2 was higher in persons with HSV-1 antibody”. Just the opposite of what you say. hsv1 is just as common the cause of genital herpes as hsv2. The more recent research from 2016 shows it’s now 35% hsv1 positive in white male population, for example. This happened due to raising awareness, testing and anti vitals use. [b]Yes if you add up US totals for all races it’s more than 50%[/b]. But people more commonly date within their own race than inter racially. For Asians hsv1 rate it’s under 10%  as they tend to date/marry within their race which historically had very low % of hsv. 
What I’m trying to say is that people should try to minimize the exposures to infections when dating, and not date based on premise than “everyone has it”. Not everyone has either herpes -  I met many people who don’t (I date white men). These people did test regularly and used protection or were in long marriages. In some  couples  one spouse is positive but they are careful so the other spouse remains negative. I hate it when someone positive tries to present my need to be protected as something abnormal and coerces into types of sex I don’t want at early dating stages, just because they could have an infection.
 And hopefully herpes vaccine comes soon.[/quote]

Not sure you can add percentages of vastly different population sizes [/quote]

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