Pearl - September 10, 2026


“She Got HERPES After Losing Her Virginity” @JustPearlyThings


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

196.81

Word count

527

Sentence count

13

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

2

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When I was 23, it was just a few months after I had lost my virginity and I was dating someone
00:00:04.880 from a dating app in New York City and I got a horrible rash. I had no idea what it was. We had
00:00:11.000 been using protection. Condoms don't prevent herpes. And I still, I got something. So I went
00:00:16.800 in and I visually got diagnosed by the nurse practitioner saying, looks like you have herpes.
00:00:22.740 traumatizing horrible freaked out so painful flash back to when i was in high school i was a senior
00:00:30.600 and i got a pretty pretty bad rash down there oh so she probably got it before the dude oh and by
00:00:37.160 the way i got diagnosed with herpes one genitally and the guy that i was with also ended up testing
00:00:43.020 positive for it so both of us tested positive both when i was 23 and neither of us knew that
00:00:48.800 we had previously potentially had it. So we don't know who gave it to who. Okay. Then when I was in
00:00:55.560 high school, I had this experience getting this horrible rash and went into the ER because it was
00:01:01.340 so, so painful. And I don't remember if it felt exactly like my, my, that herpes outbreak, but I
00:01:07.120 just remember like excruciating pain. And I went in and they looked at it and said that it could
00:01:14.240 potentially be herpes and mind you I actually don't remember my mom was with me in this appointment
00:01:19.360 because I was in a lot of pain and she remembers it all and she told it to me later um but both of
00:01:25.000 us knew that I wasn't sexually active I was really honest with my parents had a good relationship I
00:01:30.120 was waiting until marriage at that point um at least when it came to intercourse but not to other 1.00
00:01:35.580 things and I had a serious that's what I was saying like women do oral so yeah oh so do I 0.98
00:01:42.700 think she got it from she might have already had it he had um so she might have spread it down
00:01:48.320 there and i now realize and of course i realized this you know before i started my herpes company
00:01:54.500 that when i was learning i realized he easily could have given it to me if he had cold sores
00:01:59.760 as a you know at any point in his life it wasn't something we ever had talked about so it could
00:02:06.460 have been from that and that could have been my first experience and because i didn't even think
00:02:10.740 it was I didn't do anything to like I didn't worry about it I didn't I wasn't all consumed
00:02:17.180 with it because I thought it was a misdiagnosis and or my you know my mom and dad did too and I
00:02:22.740 just went on and moved on with my life and I didn't get the other outbreak or the second outbreak if
00:02:29.700 that was the first until that time that was pretty traumatizing honestly because the experience on
00:02:37.180 losing my virginity in general was traumatizing. So it could have like re-triggered it.