Genital herpes and brazilian wax?
Well, I have my bikini area waxed and I had never given it a second thought – and I have genital herpes. It doesn’t cause outbreaks for me or anything. I don’t see why you should inform them you have genital herpes before they wax you – I never would and never have. Obviously I would cancel if I had an outbreak, but that is for my own comfort. People who get cold sores (oral herpes) don’t inform their dentists, and don’t tell their beautician before she waxes their upper lip – they would never see a need, and neither do I. They aren’t at risk of catching genital herpes from you by touching you, because their genitals are not making contact with your genitals. And one in four women they treat has genital herpes, just like 8 in 10 a dentist sees have oral herpes. That is just the way it is. It doesn’t matter at all.
