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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t bother. I also think it’s way more than 60% have it—I always thought it was one of those things almost everyone has which is why no one really talks about it. [/quote]

I don't know anyone that has it. Why would you think more than 60 percent have it? [/quote]

CDC data.  60% of people age 40-49 have it, it's about 75% of people age 50 and up.[/quote]

Post link--those numbers seem high. Oh and OP, yes, you do need to disclose instead of assuming almost everyone has it.[/quote]

OP here

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db304.htm

It's in figure 1.

Hopkins says its 50-80%, perhaps as high as 90%.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/herpes-hsv1-and-hsv2/oral-herpes

My doctor was surprisingly nonchalant about it, said most people have it, everyone who makes it to 80 will get it, and looked at me like I had 2 heads when I asked about disclosing it.

While my last stretch of being single was in my mid-late 20s, I literally had not one person disclose to me, which is interesting since at least half the people I hooked up with had it.  That's why I am posing the question, seems odd no one ever discloses this, is it because most people who have it don't know.

And yes, I am leaning towards disclosure before oral for sure.[/quote]

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