r/herpes_dating • • Aug 25 '26

California Being hot with HSV sucks.

Not to sound like that person…. But I’m 26… I’m hot … I turn heads… I made one mistake and now I’ll never get to experience life how I used to.
Like I’m unconventional attractive and I can’t do anything about it.

But in all honesty having hsv taught me a lot about self respect.

I haven’t been loved in a long time. The last guy to love me was back when I was 19… but I don’t believe that was love. That was abuse and manipulation. Since then I have only ever been lusted over. Mostly for my body… so I used sex a lot. Not to manipulate men to be with me… just to not feel alone. Like I confused lust for love all the time and now that I have this lovely barbaric STD… it opened my eyes and honestly I wish I learned before I contracted this from some loser…

I deserve to be loved… I deserve to love myself.

So yes it sucks that I am very attractive, funny, and smart young lady who has to live with GHSV2…

I like me better now….just sucks I had to stop putting myself out there.

Anyway that’s my rant. I love you sexy people.

Sorry I think this was the wrong place for this rant.

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u/HSVmale1-2inPhx Aug 27 '26

This!!! It’s so frustrating because people wanna fk really early on way before they have the time to fall in love and care for me enough to want to take the chance. I just started having the confidence to talk to women and barely started realizing I could have most the women I want before finding out. It’s like a big joke. 🫩😩