I was told in 1973 that I had herpes. I remember having a painful groin that hurt when I went to urinate, and I had some sore on the crack of my buttocks. I divorced my husband over it, but he swore (even to this day) that he never had herpes and was told by his physician that it was a case of crabs.
I had a fever for at least a month, and found urinating very painful. I cried and cried over it. At the time herpes was the worst thing you could get for an STD. Now, in the light of the AIDS epidemic, it doesn’t seem so bad. I had one other outbreak of herpes (I think, it was so long ...
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