Can you get herpes from a toilet seat?

It's alive!

The short answer to that would be NO.

You cannot get herpes from a toilet seat. Herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) spread by skin-to-skin contact. In most cases, the virus enters your body through mucous membranes — the type of skin found in your mouth, genitals or anus. The virus can also enter your body through skin that has tiny scrapes or tears.

Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1) is known as oral herpes and Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV2) is known as genital herpes because of the area of the body they effect. This is slightly misleading as someone with oral herpes (a.k.a. The Common Cold-sore) can pass on HSV1 to their partner's genitals through oral sex and someone with genital herpes can pass on HSV2 to their partner's mouth.

Both herpes 1 and 2 are not able to live on a non-living surface, such as a toilet seat. Therefore, unless the toilet seat you happen to be using is alive (which if it is then catching herpes from a toilet seat would be the least of your worries) then it is not possible to contract herpes from a toilet.

The virus that causes herpes is very delicate and it cannot live long or at all on such surfaces. It requires skin-to-skin contact or bodily fluid contact through sexual encounters in order to live and multiply.

The herpes virus dies quickly outside of the body making it virtually impossible to get the infection through contact with toilets used by an infected person.

Don't believe us? Then check with the thousands of members at www.h-ype.com and ask them if they did, but we bet they didn't.

Who's Got Her Peas? (We really mean Herpes)

The general statistics indicate that 1 in 4 people have herpes and 80% of them don't actually realize they do because their symptoms are so mild, if they get any at all.

Therefore that would imply that 1 in 4 celebrities have herpes too. Many names have popped up such as Jason Biggs from "American Pie" who Tweeted his fans about the progress of his developing herpes cold sore.

Here is our take on who's got herpes......oh we mean her peas. Enjoy!

Become More Than Just A Profile Using Social Networking.

Whether you join a dating site for people with herpes or one of the huge commercial dating sites, the end result may still be the same. There may be nobody in your area or the competition may be so huge, it's daunting. So, what do you do to get noticed or pass the time until that perfect one joins? This is where the social networking comes in.

Social networking is the key to your success. It's all in the name. You do what it says on the tin.

Be social and network.

Use networks like H-YPE.com to interact with other members and having fun doing it. Stand out from the crowd without being a prat. It's obvious that a profile with a picture gets more attention than one without a photo right? So what do you do when lots of members have their photo attached to their profile because they feel safer on H-YPE than on most other herpes/HPV dating sites?

Take the next step on the H-YPE Social Network and allow your head to pop above the crowd. Make yourself even more visible to other members by:

• popping into the chat room (best time for that is late evenings after about 9pm)
• attending events, or better still, arrange one yourself
• answer people's questions in the forum or start an interesting thread from scratch
• join a group to meet others with similar interests and if there isn't one you like, then start a new one
• write a blog about whatever you like and comment on other's blogs
• add a video to your profile introducing yourself making sure to keep it short and sweet.

In doing these things you are being proactive. All these things will make you even more visible to the crowd because you are now standing out, and for the right reasons too. Remember, it's "Survival of the Fittest". No-one will do this for you. You have to do it yourself.

Don't be that person that says, "No-one ever emails me." Take control of your situation and go to them.

We have created the stage for you to shine. Use H-YPE as your tool to socialise and network. 

Look at Facebook for example. It's not a dating site but people do meet and date through that social network as they do on the major dating sites. You have friends, wall posts, photos, comments, etc, as you have on H-YPE, so make the most of these facilities.

In a perfect world, you would go online, click a profile and find that perfect person that lives around the corner from you. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case and having herpes and/or HPV doesn’t make it any easier. What social networking does is it opens your search radius and that of others. You may catch the eye of that perfect one, who came across your profile, and lives an only hour away. We know this happens and have the marriages to prove it!

So, don’t be shy, jump in and happy networking!

How To Sweeten Up Telling Someone You Have Herpes

Say it with a cake? If that works for you then great.

On a more serious note though, telling someone you love or are interested in that you have herpes can be very embarrassing. If you've ever had to tell someone you have herpes, how did you do it? Did it go well? What would you do differently if you could?

If you pick the right time and say it the right way, there's a good chance things will work out OK.

Think about how you want your partner to take the news. Do you want it to seem like a huge problem? Of course not, so don't present it that way. If you say, "I have some awful news for you," your partner will likely take it as awful news. Instead, be casual, direct, and unemotional.

If you say, "You're going to freak out when you hear this," or "Don't freak out, but...," you are setting your partner up to panic either way.

Simply say you have herpes, and ask if he or she knows what that means. Be prepared to present the facts.

Choose the most appropriate setting - a relaxing one. Just the two of you. Where there won't be any distractions.

The worst time to tell, other than after having sex, is during foreplay or when your clothes are already off. That would not only spoil the mood, but it could also annoy your partner, starting the conversation on the wrong foot.

It would be best to let the topic come up naturally in conversation. That way, it would seem less like a bombshell and more like any other development in your life. For example, you could say, "Just so you know, my doctor called me yesterday with some test results, and said I have the virus that causes genital herpes."

If you've never slept with the person before, it's not impolite to ask if he or she has any sexually transmitted diseases. You could start the conversation by being the first one to ask.

You might be surprised at the number of stories we've heard where immediately after telling someone they have herpes they hear the response, "I have herpes too."

It's possible that he or she might also have been looking for the appropriate moment to tell you they have herpes.

Remember that your partner might take the news badly no matter how well you deliver it. In that case, don't get defensive. Allow him or her some time to think it over in private, calm down, and come to terms with it. It may not be the first challenge you've faced together, and if the relationship is valuable enough to continue, it won't be the last.

If after reading this you still can't bring yourself to have "The Herpes Talk", then you can always try a dedicated herpes and HPV social site like www.H-YPE.com where having the talk is not necessary.

Could Facebook tell you which of your friends has an STD?

As many a Facebook friend will tell you, revealing more about your private life than you would like is an everyday hazard of the web.

But a new concept for an app could see social network users sharing information far more sensitive than a drunken party snap.

Researchers are exploring whether websites such as Facebook could be used to sift through users' friend lists and flag up which of them may be carrying a sexually transmitted infection.

A team at the University of North Carolina's Center for Infectious Diseases hopes this approach can harness the power of increasingly ubiquitous social networks to prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV and chlamydia.

At an international health conference held last month, Dr Peter Leone - the professor leading the research - pointed out how a patient's circle of friends can be a vital clue in identifying who could be at risk of infection.

The theory is that, since social networks mirror our real-life friendship circles, services such as Facebook could be used to contact an entire at-risk group and tell them they may be in danger.

In a previous study Dr Leone tested the sexual partners of newly diagnosed HIV patients and found 20 per cent of them showed up HIV-positive.

His latest research looks at this finding in light of the idea that people who move in similar social circles often have sexual partners in common.

Dr Leone aims to develop a more precise approach to tracking the spread of STDs than simply focusing on at-risk demographics or limiting the search to those with whom the patient has had direct sexual contact.

Speaking to Salon, Dr Leone told of how a syphilis outbreak in North Carolina demonstrated how STDs can thrive within a social circle.

He said: 'When we looked at the networks we could connect many of the cases to sexual encounters, and when we asked who they hung out with, who they knew, we could connect 80 percent of the cases.'

The researchers offer a service whereby newly diagnosed HIV patients can provide a list of past sexual partners and anyone else who could have picked up the virus indirectly. The team then contacts these people, sometimes through Facebook, to let them know the patient is HIV-positive and that they should get themselves tested.

Describing the spread of sexual infections as a 'population-level effect', Dr Leone told Salon: 'It would be no different from someone who goes to a picnic and gets food poisoning. We’re concerned about everyone that was at that picnic.'

Another method being considered is based on an exisiting app for tracking the spread of flu. Developed by genetics professor James Fowler, of the University of California in San Diego, it trawls status updates for certain patterns and keywords, notifying users if their friends' activity indicates that they may be at a higher risk of falling ill.

The problem, of course, is that Facebook users are far less likely to broadcast news of their newly contracted STD than of a sore throat.

Nevertheless, Dr Fowler said social networks remain useful in the fight against STDs.

Not only do the likes of Facebook enable users to spread the message of safe sex, he said, they allow people to set examples to friends and destigmatise sexual health issues.

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The above extract was taken from the Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123914/Why-Facebook-soon-tell-friends-STD.html

One would hope that herpes or HPV would not be one of their targets but it is something to think about.

UK Herpes Dating = H-YPE!

No, we are not changing H-YPE's name to UK Herpes Dating. It is simply another way to find us. The name UK Herpes Dating was created as another way to bring the newly diagnosed members of our society to H-YPE using the keywords that seem to be quite popular on search engines.

Of course it is up to you to choose which of the following you should use:

www.h-ype.com
www.ukherpesdating.com

Rest assured that you will end up in the same wonderful place...H-YPE!

437737 is code for herpes - www.H-YPE.com

Yes it is true.....437737 is code for herpes! If you were to type the word "HERPES" on your phone, the corresponding numbers would actually be 437737.

"So what good does this do for me?", I hear you ask.

Watch this video to find out more...

If herpes dating sites are not for you then try adding the number 437737 to your profile so that others can do a keyword search for you or why not try searching for others yourself? Or you could use this method alongside of herpes dating sites.

If the thought of exposing yourself by adding this number to your regular dating site profile scares you then try using a dedicated herpes dating site like www.H-YPE.com.
Click here to join H-YPE now.