Herpes, Safe Sex and Pornography!

Pornography – just like drink driving and smoking – can wreck lives. Quite apart from the children and young women sold into sexual slavery; quite apart from the women beaten and abused by pimps – is the number of cases of herpes spread because of the porn industry and its almost complete failure to advocate or promote the safe sex message. [...]

Herpes drugs and pregnancy: most common anti-herpetic drugs did not increase risk of birth defect in a new study

A recent study in the August 25 issue of JAMA conducted in Denmark concluded that the use of the three most common herpes drugs; acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir did not increase the risk of major birth defects for mothers who took them during the first trimester of pregnancy. [...]

Herpes & Sex: being over fifty does NOT protect you from herpes or STIs!

Free of the risk of pregnancy and perhaps without a permanent partner, it’s easy just to get into the habit of unprotected sex. But age does not make anyone immune from the risk of herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases. Urology departments are reporting a huge increase in STIs among newly-liberated over 50s [...]