Guides
Everything here is opened by hand and dated, so you can see how fresh it is rather than taking our word for it. Nothing on this page diagnoses anything or tells you whether a situation is safe — those questions belong with a clinician.
- Condoms and Herpes: What They Protect and What They Cannot Cover
Do condoms protect against herpes? See what they cover, why risk remains, what two HSV-2 studies found, and which questions belong with a clinician.
- Dating With Herpes: What Actually Changes and What Does Not
What a herpes diagnosis changes about dating in practice — when to bring it up, what tends to happen when people do, and which worries turn out not to match how it goes.
- The First Night After a Herpes Diagnosis
What you can reasonably do tonight, what can wait until tomorrow, and why the urge to explain yourself to someone right now is worth sitting on for a few hours.
- Herpes Dating Sites: How to Choose Without Guessing
An independent comparison of herpes dating sites and mainstream apps, including public prices, privacy terms, data retention, and practical trade-offs.
- Herpes Support Groups Near Me: How to Vet One
Find and evaluate herpes support groups near you by format, privacy, cost, sales pressure, facilitator background, and current activity.
- Living With Herpes: A Practical Guide to Daily Life and Dating
A non-medical guide to living with herpes — daily routines, telling a partner, dating someone with HSV-1, testing questions, and pregnancy care.
- What to Ask the Clinic (and What They Often Do Not Tell You)
The questions worth writing down before your next appointment, grouped by what each one actually settles — and which ones no clinic can answer.
- How to Tell a Partner You Have Herpes: Words for the Conversation
How to tell someone you have herpes — when to talk, what to say in person or by text, how to answer common reactions, and how to handle rejection without shame.
That is everything published so far. We add a guide when we have actually checked something, not on a schedule.