Before anyonr says anything : I know about asymptomatic shedding.
I have ohsv 1 since childhood. My bf caught oral hsv1 from me (at least we believe so since he is an annoying ass and kept kissing and drinking from my things when I had a cold sore even though I warned him several times and he said he didn’t care. It’s not a stigma in my country).
But I’m worried about the transmission to our genitals through oral which we have almost weekly… I usually just avoid it when I have a cold sore and a week after as I assumed there’s asymptomatic shedding at that time, when the sore seems to disappear.
We’ve been together for almost 3 years and I never transmitted to him down there using this method.
Has anyone else have the same experience?
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Since he’s already gotten an oral infection from his cavalier carelessness, it’s exceedingly unlikely that either of you will spread it to other sites.
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If both of you already have HSV1 orally, you should be safe from getting it genitally as your immune system already has antibodies to it.