<![CDATA[Jezebel: herpes]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: herpes]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/herpes http://jezebel.com/tag/herpes <![CDATA[Ha-Ha Headline Of The Day]]> Science Now reports: "Herpes Never Sleeps." But under the funny heading comes some bad news - herpes may be much easier to transmit that previously believed. [ScienceNow]

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<![CDATA[The Real World: Herpes, Spit, Water, Tears]]> On last night's episode, Ayiiia mocked Emo Joey's oral herpes. In retaliation, he spit on her tacos, and antagonized her by singing her a song. She threw water, getting some in his guitar. This made Emo Joey cry.

Seriously, what a baby. He went on and on about how his expensive guitar was now ruined, although this was just a hunch... and he never bothered to get it repaired in a shop. It was a minimal amount of water. One time, when my boyfriend pissed me off, I put his electric guitar in the tub and peed on it repeatedly, and I had my period, to boot. He got it fixed for $40. I suggest that Joey stop being so Emo, and dry both his eyes and guitar.

Last season, The Real World reverted back to the old days, and the roommates weren't given a mandatory group job. (Personally, I loved the decision. It gave characters their own story lines and allowed them to explore New York City in their own ways.) This season, however is different: Seeing that Cancun has fewer bars - and people - than NYC, the roommates need to explore life beyond their high-end resort and its VIP-designated lounge chairs.

So a group job was arranged for the roomies that is bound to cause a lot of drama and challenges. They're working for a student travel organization, for which they are essentially chaperones for college kids on spring break. The catch? The Real Worlders are not allowed to "fraternize" — meaning hook up — with the students, and worse yet, they are not allowed to be publicly intoxicated, even when they're not working. If they violate these rules, they not only get terminated, but they get sent back home. Ayiiia — one of the two Hooters waitresses living in the house — is totally pissed off about this because she won't be allowed to enter hot body contests or dance on tables.

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<![CDATA[What Insult Did John Corbett Make To Mary Lynn Rajskub?!?]]> Mary Lynn Rajskub from 24 was on The Tonight Show last night discussing her former career as a waitress and a strange run-in with former Northern Exposure actor John Corbett.

Apparently, years ago, when Mary Lynn was working at the Hard Rock Cafe, she once waited on John Corbett, who was then the "hot guy from Northern Exposure." He came in with his "skeleton" girlfriend, and asked Mary Lynn something that was so bad NBC had to bleep it out. Corbett said something along the lines "do you have _______?" (we're thinking it's "herpes," but can't they say that on TV?), which made Mary Lynn "frown inside." The clip ends with Mary Lynn pointing out that "even if I did have ______ I could wait tables!" After this clip, we are left with so many questions. What does she not have? Herpes? Leprosy? A mean tendency to refer to other women as skeletons? We may never know.

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<![CDATA[10 Best Judge Judy Moments of 2008]]> Urinary Tract Infections, abusive husbands and "marginal people" are just a few of the best Judge Judy moments of 2008.

To read more about the cases on the list, and to see longer versions of their corresponding clips, click the links.

10.) "Madam, If You Can Enjoy The Bedroom With Your Boyfriend, You Can Get A Job!"

9.) Judge Judy Says "Whatevs" To Spreading Herpes On The Internet

8.) A Stoner's Love For Judge Judy Is Unrequited

7.) Judge Judy Hates Screaming When She Has Laryngitis

6.) The Judge Judy Earthquake Episode

5.) Judge Judy To Crazy Eyes Lady: "Stop Looking At Me Like That!"

4.) Judge Judy Explains The Difference Between An "Accident" And "On Purpose" To Confused Litigant

3.) Judge Judy And The Case Of The Urinary Tract Infection

2.) Judge Judy Is Totally Justified In Calling This Woman A Moron Three Times

1.) Judge Judy Teaches Wife Beater To Have Respect For Women

Bonus clips!
These are two of my favorite Judge Judy episodes of all time, but they aired at the tail end of 2007. Still, they are too awesome to not mention here.

Judge Judy And The Lady Who Bit Off The Other Lady's Pinky Finger

Judge Judy And The Lady Who Eats Roadkill

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<![CDATA[20 Best Reality TV Show Moments Of 2008]]> From ANTM's menstrual cramps, to Bobby Brown's farts, to drunk women urinating on couches, we bring you the 20 Best (meaning, sometimes horrifying) Reality TV Show Moments of 2008.



20.) Bobby Brown Farts On Carnie Wilson, Pees On Dee Snider
Bobby Brown took a half-hearted stab at earning a pay check and having a country music career via the reality show Gone Country, in which he lived with other out-of-work celebs down South and competed for a record contract. In this clip, he gets drunk, eats ribs, farts and pees.


19.) Teen Bathes, Then Bonds With Senior Citizen
Baby Borrowers was a social experiment in the form of a reality show that was supposed to teach teenagers how hard it is to raise a family and run a household. For some reason, one of the episodes called for the teens to care for senior citizens, maybe to scare them off of the burden of dealing with elderly parents later on down the road. In this clip, a teen has to bathe her senior ward, and then they have a touching conversation about the generational differences of filing nails square or rounded.


18.) Meet The Two Most Effective Forms Of Birth Control
Some episodes of Supernanny are scarier than horror movies. In this clip, two little terrors defiantly pick their noses and wipe the boogers on a wall, physically abuse their mother and say terrifying things like, "I have a dick and a weenie in my weenie," and "I'm gonna fuck you in your privates one day!"


17.) Vagina Insults Are The New "Ya Momma"
MTV's That's Amore — the spin-off of Shot at Love with Tila Tequila — featured women who incessantly talked about other women's vaginas.


16.) American Idol Contestant Who Looks Like Willem Dafoe With Face Glitter
Alexis Cohen was one of those "bad" auditions featured during the open-call leg of American Idol. They're always easy targets, but her working knowledge of the English language and her literal glittery attempt at polishing a turd made her the best of the worst.


15.) Stage Mom Has Violent, Psychotic Outburst
Rocky, stage mother to Haley, from VH1's I Know My Kid's a star first won our hearts when she asked her daughter if her tampon string was visibly hanging below her miniskirt. This freak out sealed the deal.


14.) Woman With A Half Wig Cries About It
Kim from Real Housewives of Atlanta attracted attention and confusion over her hair — an obvious wig that did not match the color of the natural bangs in the front. Her attempt at clearing the matter up (she had cancer!) only confused everyone more (wait, she only thought she had cancer!).


13.) Pussylicious
The reality show in which women compete for a spot (that's actually never given to them) in the the Pussycat Dolls lineup was called Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, which obviously needed to be shortened to "pussylicious." Especially after one girl's introduction included her saying, "I'm Cassandra. I'm from Aurora, Illinois, I live in Chicago now, and I have a tattoo of cherries on my hoo-ha." Later, another girl gets injured and is forced to dance in her wheelchair.


12.) Women Past Their Prime Audition For Modeling Competition
She's Got the Look was supposed to be America's Next Top Model for the over-35 set. In this clip its obvious that there were reasons beyond their age that have kept these women from working the runway.


11.) Corey Haim Doesn't Understand Why Everyone He Knows Wants Him To Go To Rehab
It's always ridiculous/sad when addicts who can't fully open their eyes or articulate words think that they are fooling everyone. It's double ridiculous when it's someone like Corey Haim who has had a long public history of drug addiction.


10.) Is This Lady's Husband Gay?
Alex and her husband Simon were the breakout stars of Real Housewives of New York. They were attached at the hip, obsessed with teaching their uncooperative children French, and dropped $20k on opera tickets even though their Brooklyn brownstone was literally falling apart. But the question on everyone's mind was whether or not Speedo-wearing Simon is gay or just simply European.


9.) Women Get Wasted, Puke, Break Dishes, & Hock Loogies
This scene from Charm School: Rock of Love was the most entertaining display of drunken behavior since Bret took the girls to Vegas on season one.


8.) Stripper Mom And Porn Star Have Threesome With Dude, While Another Girl Mistakes Couch For Toilet
Scratch that! This is the was the most entertaining display of drunken behavior, brought to us by those classy roommates of Bad Girls Club.


7.) Flavor Flav Draws The Line At Herpes
As though he doesn't have the virus himself.


6.) The Matchmaker & The Mafia
Intervention is supposed to be a poignant, serious show about addiction, however, some of the characters — like this Italian woman who comes from a family who is part of "The Family" — make us smile.


5.) Denise Richards Calls A Celebrity Journalist A Cunt
As much as Denise Richards: It's Complicated sucked, it was fun to see the real reason behind why the tabloids are so hard on her.


4.) Brooke Hogan Is A Sexist Moron
The irony of her show being titled Brooke Knows Best escaped no one. In this clip, she reveals that her thoughts on politics, and how women's menstrual cycles makes them unfit to serve as President.


3.) America's Next Top Model Is A Menstrual Show
Per Tyra Banks' advice, women should bend over and wince in pain, as though they have menstrual cramps, in order to look "editorial."


2.) Terrifying Texas Mom Shows "Pansy" Husband Who's Boss
Wife Swap is a reliable source when looking to investigate the weirdos of America.


1.) Bikini Corie
The best elimination speech in competition-based reality TV programming ever, courtesy of Paris Hilton's My New BFF.






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<![CDATA[Sores Subject]]> Wanna give someone herpes? Now you can, minus all the resentment, burning and the pricey Valtrex prescription! This company is selling a Giant Microbes Herpes stuffed toy, that's supposedly "soft, cute, durable, well made, and educational." [BWE]

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<![CDATA[A Pot Psychology Summer: Looking Back At The Things You Never Saw]]> Summer will officially be over in a few days. :( So for this installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy, Rich and I take a look back at our favorite things you never saw, and answer some questions that were pretty stupid. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)


A Pot Psychology Summer: Looking Back At The Things You Never Saw from Pot Psychology on Vimeo.

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<![CDATA[Judge Judy Says "Whatevs" To Spreading Herpes On The Internet]]> Judge Judy is always talking about how she doesn't like computers and she doesn't use the internet, but even though she's not technologically savvy, she still seems to have a pretty good grip on the milieu of internet commenting, particularly that of MySpace. In a case today, a man was counter suing a woman who posted on his MySpace page that he has herpes. The glitch is that he told her he did. Basically, according to JJ, we just have to understand that the internet is a place where people will be mean assholes, and they can pretty much say whatever they want, so long as they believe what they are saying is true. Clip above.

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<![CDATA["Is Believing In Creationism Grounds For A Breakup?"]]> It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, Rich, the judge to my Judy, helps me answer questions about golden showers, pizza dough, and affectionate cats. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)








"Is Believing In Creationism Grounds For A Breakup?" from Pot Psychology on Vimeo.

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<![CDATA[Sores Subject]]> Herpes: It's not whatevs to oysters. Apparently there's an outbreak of OsHV-1 (Oyster Herpesvirus type 1) that's killing almost all of the young oysters in France. According to the peeps in the lab coats, it has something to do with the fact that the baby oysters "spent too much energy developing their sexual organs rather than their natural defenses." Heh. Isn't that how most of us contract herpes? [Reuters]

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<![CDATA["If You Punch Someone Really Hard In Their Fake Boob, Will It Explode?"]]> It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Mariah to my Whitney, Rich, and put together a clips reel of outtakes with some of the dumber and more offensive questions. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)

P.S. We like pictures because they're easier than reading, so feel free to send some our way.

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<![CDATA[Sore Subjects]]> OMFG! Word on the street — or on science websites, rather — is that doctors might be close to finding a cure for herpes! Researchers have discovered that a mysterious gene carried by herpes simplex-1 allows the virus to "lay low in the nerves it infects." Now that they've been able to detect this, they feel that it's possible to "wake" up the virus, in order to kill it with standard antiviral drugs. Good news, in no small part because one strain of herpes may cause brain cancer. [Reuters, Science Daily, Sciam]

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<![CDATA[Yeah, People Wore Condoms…When The Naked Gun Was In Theaters!]]> Remember how, like, back in the day people were so super vigilant about wearing condoms? I grew up in the eighties and think I learned about condoms before I learned about sex. But anyhow, times change and a new survey out says 40% of New Yorkers did not use condoms during their last sexual encounter. This shocked my friend Jessica, who immediately IMed me to get my theories. It turned out that I was quite the expert in this sort of…stuff? She posted the IM on her website, and I encourage you to read it, because it is at least as funny as the Herman's Hermits human condom love scene montage from The Naked Gun, which I found for you just in time for the TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY of that movie. Watch it after the jump. [NY Mag]

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<![CDATA[Let's Talk About Sex(ually Transmitted Diseases)]]> I feel like I'm constantly talking about the STDs I have/had, to the point that I'm pretty sure my friends are sick of hearing about it and I'm paranoid that people I first meet (who might know about it, thanks to the internet) give me weird looks when I sit on their furniture. And even though I'm burdened with forever being identified with this onetime blemish outbreak on my vagina (that's really all herpes is, BTW) that happened three years ago, I think it's important to talk about, so I'll continue to do so. However, it would be way easier on me if you all would share your STD stories. (You're all anonymous anyway!) Anyway, I'll get the party started, by going in depth — literally and figuratively!


Assuming that UTIs don't count as STDs (even though it's very similar to Chlamydia, since it's just bacteria, right?), my first STD was the herp. God only knows who I caught it from, but I'm pretty sure it was from one of three bartenders from the same bar I was sleeping with at the time. But it also could've been this dude from this band. Or this 22-year-old unemployed skater dude. Or this other unemployed dude who was a friend of a friend. (I know how to pick 'em!) Anyway, I felt a burning when I peed, which wasn't particularly out of the ordinary, especially for back then, when I was seemingly always recovering from chronic UTIs. I ignored it. Then I noticed this like pimple-y blister thing on my right lip. I was like, FUCK, but, heavily in denial, insisting that it might just be an ingrown hair. But when I was reduced to putting homemade ice packs on my vadge to soothe it and unable to sleep through the night because of the pain, I decided to face my fears and looked at my vadge with a hand mirror. The whole thing was inflamed. I made an emergency appointment to see my gyno, who gave me some Zovorax cream, Valtrex (just a week's worth, never do that one-a-day shit 'cause it'll kill your immune system), and some Ambien.

My second STD was Chlamydia. Boring, and easily treatable. Happened about three months after the herp. Then two weeks after that, I got a call from the dude that gave me Chlamydia, to tell me that he had gonorrhea, aka "the clap", aka "the drip." I'd decided that I must've dodged that bullet, but about eight hours after receiving that call, I was squatting over a public toilet and felt something fall out of me and heard a loud thud. I looked down and saw this big, clumpy brownish/yellowish creamy thing on the toilet seat. I called my doctor the next morning and she gave me 500 mg of Cipro and that shit went away right quick. (Seriously, if you're going to get an STD, pray that it's gonorrhea.) Anyway, I took it in stride. I'd already popped my STD cherry with herpes, so everything after that was no biggie. I even made up songs about gonorrhea to the tune of "Make It Clap" by Busta Rhymes featuring Sean John, changing the words to "I got the clap!" And then also, I changed the words of "Da' Dip" by Freak Nasty to "I put my hand up on your hip, when I drip, you drip, we drip."

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<![CDATA["Does The Horrific Taste Of Vagina Become Less Vomitous As I Get Used To Oral?"]]> It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Molly to my Nomi, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like smegma, internet sex, and incest. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)

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<![CDATA[Florida Outlaws Truck Nuts? • Congo Arrests Cock Snatchers]]> bumpernuts042308.JPG• Being a tool just got harder: Florida may fine drivers with truck nuts. • EHarmony ditches one-night stand advice after super-prudes protest. • Pervy dude peeps on roommate using teddy bear camera. • Superstitious Congolese police arrest suspected "penis snatchers"; men must find new excuse for small dicks. • Pasha Grishuk, a former Olympic figure skater, was slipped GHB in hotel bar. • Is schoolyard sexual harassment is more harmful than bullying? • Yet another teenage girl commits suicide after being bullied. • Domestic violence is associated with chronic malnutrition in India. • Indian-Americans use email to get to know future spouses in arranged marriages. • Duh: TMZ uses exciting headlines to get hits on banal videos. • Earth Day = Forced Abortion and Sterilization Day? • Women nurse pain after a break-up by selling jewelry from ex-boyfriends for cash. • Fliering an ex's town accusing her of giving you herpes is a-ok in Florida, as long as the allegations are true.

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<![CDATA[Do You Tell Sex Partners About Your STDs?]]> I have herpes. I've written about it on the internet before, and that fact comes back to bite me in the ass way more frequently than any blisters do. But it's somewhat of a relief that it's out there, because I feel less of a burden of having to tell new people I bang, since these days, the people I sleep with tend to have read up on my sexual history. But I never used to tell people, mainly because I only ever had that one outbreak, so it just didn't really seem like a part of my life. I was with my last boyfriend for a few years and we never wore condoms and he never broke out in blisters. (I also never told him about having herpes until like right before we broke up, after we hadn't slept together for a few months.) But I wonder if anyone tells the people they're sleeping with about their past or presently-dormant STDs. Let's figure it out by taking the poll after the jump!

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<![CDATA["How Do I Tell A Casual Sex Partner I May Have Given Him Herpes?"]]> It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the wind beneath my wings, Rich, and I dole out advice on stuff like low libidos, virgin friends, and how everyone is probably gay. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)

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<![CDATA[ One in four teenage girls has an STD! And...]]> One in four teenage girls has an STD! And the rate isn't much lower for teenage girls who haven't had sex, since...um...not all sexually-transmitted diseases are sexually-transmitted? The math is still sorta fuzzy to us, but one thing is not! It's SINEWY BLACK THUGS who are infecting these virginal young virgins. Or anyway, this is the stock photo CNN used to illustrate this alarming new trend story. [CNN]

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<![CDATA[Flavor Flav Draws The Line At Herpes]]> On last night's episode of Flavor of Love 3, the girls were split into two teams and given the sadistic task of "roasting" one girl of their choice from the opposite team. Thing is, because the roast wasn't coming from a place of love and respect, it was just a bunch of girls telling mean jokes. One of the girls roasted was Hotlanta, and after sitting through jokes about her weight, vagina odor, and career as a stripper, she was then accused of having oral herpes. Flav got freaked out by the whole thing (guess he didn't get the memo that herpes is so whatevs) and had a doctor perform a weird test on her. Weirder than that is the idea that Flav managed to avoid contracting herpes during the first two seasons of this show. Clip above.


Earlier: Contrary To Popular Belief, Herpes Is So Whatevs

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