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Dear Glaxo Smith Kline,

I’ve been meaning to give you some feedback for quite some time and a member that joined our group today has motivated me to take some time to contact you.

I feel, as one of the largest and most respected drug manufacturers, you have a tremendous opportunity to educate the public but you seem to be avoiding the topic in your advertisements. I am one of the moderators of a worldwide support group for those with HSV (herpes simplex virus) and we have seen a disturbing rise in members joining that have HSV1 genitally and contracted it from someone through oral sex when the person honestly believed that it was ‘just a cold sore’.

It would be so awesome if just one company (you?) would have the nerve to identify cold sores / fever blisters as being herpes especially since up to 80% of the population has it and it CAN be transmitted to someone’s genitals.

I just wanted to give you my feedback and, hopefully, you’re listening.
Thank you! – Jennifer

I believe GSK sent back some sort of automated response. So… we decided to go ahead and post this letter via the blog just in case someone high up would see it here. Thanks!

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I was booted from MPWH for something I did OFF the MPWH website. I hadn’t even logged on in months. One good friend of mine also got booted some time ago for mentioning a different herpes organization on another yahoo group message board (not on MPWH). Finally, I don’t know whether you belong to any other yahoo groups, but in the past couple of days, there have been several other stories of people who have been terminated for OFF-MPWH behavior.

The point is a member can get their account terminated even if the “violation” is OFF the MPWH website. The MPWH Terms of Service includes a sentence that reads: “The sole subjective opinion of MPWH Administration will determine whether any action ON or OFF of the MPWH site rises to the level of a TOS violation.” Note specifically the phrase “ON or OFF of the MPWH site.” – Anonymous

So basically no corner of the internet is safe, not even private emails. Thank goodness I never invested my time OR my money into this particular herpes dating site back when I was single. Thank God! In my opinion, MPWH is not a site I would want to spend my time on whatsoever. I feel sorry for those people that have been booted for no good reason at all other than to just try and socialize with other people whom they share common ground with. Sad Indeed.

MPWH the New Big Brother

After 3 days I could have a date. It didn’t work, but it was very interesting. The quality of service for the price is really worth it. Match.com is not responsible for your lack of success. You cannot mix their service and what happens when you date.

Match.com gives you all the tools and everything possible to help you. If you fail, you should question yourself. It’s not an easy task, but being awakened to consciousness can be painful. And nobody wants to suffer.

Anyway, all the people working at Match.com have my affection for their terrific job.

- JT

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MPWH stands for Meet People With Herpes.

For some strange reason I have been getting TONS of feedback on them lately. I think it’s because I provide feedback pages for various sites and products on things. People send me their positive and negative experiences all the time. But lately it’s been A LOT about MPWH and how they run their online dating site.

Take for example the following:

Yeeeeah. I had a situation with them a few months back. I had sent someone a link to like my facebook profile or myspace something, and they blasted me saying no solicitation for other sites. So I argued with them. If I’m paying for a site, whoever I contact, and whatever contact info I decide to provide, is MY business. Pre-H days I was on a few like… ‘pay’ sites for dating. They at least wanted you to correspond with the person maybe a time or two, but hell if you were paying and sent someone a message with your contact info it wasnt like you were being ‘big brothered’ the whole time. So ultimately, I’m paying you to contact other members, and you’re telling me I can’t give them my profile information for like… a social networking site. Which mpwh is NOT. They put fu*%in limits on your socializing. The site is pretty wack actually. But they’re quick to cite how many members they have on their site as some type of testament to their supposed greatness.

So basically what seems to be happening over there is that you pay for the service and while you are trying to meet people with herpes…your private correspondence is monitored and if they do not like what you are saying in private with the people you are trying to meet…they slap your hand OR worse…remove you from the site.

WOW. Most online dating sites don’t do that and ESPECIALLY if you are paying for the service. MOST online dating sites take your payment and then you are on your own to meet, socialize, and correspond with whomever you so choose.

If it were me… I wouldn’t give such a site the time of day. I’ve actually heard through the grapevine that you can not correspond freely and if you mention other sites or social gatherings you get slapped on the hand or your membership removed. WOW.

It would be like Walmart turning me away for shopping at Target the previous day. OR Walmart refusing to check me out because I mentioned an item I had bought at Target OR vice versa.

I think if somebody is paying for something then they should get what they pay for instead of every piece of private correspondence monitored and as this individual said, “big brothered.”

I was booted from MPWH

Obamacare: What number will you be?

Talk About Telling – My opinion, when I found out I had H in 2001, I continued to date men that did not have it…

The St. Pete National Beach Event is a big annual gathering for the H community, that is generally attended by between 200-300 people each year. Like all the national H events, it’s more fun than a barrel of chimpanzees!

This year, it will be held Thursday – Sunday of the first weekend in
November in its usual location: gorgeous St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

This year, for everyone’s security, participants will need to REGISTER
to attend St. Pete 2009.

WHERE CAN I REGISTER AND GET MORE INFORMATION?

The official website is launched!

But first, we must ask, for security’s sake, that you don’t share any
information you find there, except the WEBSITE ADDRESS. But do post the website address wherever and whenever the spirit moves you!

(Again, we urge you to make sure you follow the rules of whatever site you’re posting on, for your own sake.)

Start getting your costume together! Dust off your steel-stringed
guitar! Blow up your pool toys! Book your airfare! Enough talk -
here’s the website – go there now!

www.stpetebeachevent.org

(See you on the beach!)

Cat >”<
Lead Planner
St. Pete 2009

I’ll be discussing the rest over on Domestic Divapalooza.

“One of the reasons that I want to go slow is that I have herpes. If we have sex I want to do it conscientiously and intelligently. It’s harder for a man to get herpes from a woman and I am on medication which decreases the chances more, but it’s still possible.”

He said something about using condoms and I told him that that’s not 100% but that I have a couple of friends who have been in long-term relationships with men who haven’t gotten it. Then he said that he really liked me and it was ok.

I took him home and we had a great make-out session!

Back then, and for many, many years after, the main way to find out
about the events was through the Yahoo Groups – the main form of social communication among the members of the H community. The events were also usually announced through the local support and social groups, in
their meetings and via their email lists. The whole H community hung
together and helped one another, like a giant, country-wide family. The leaders of each organization collaborated and cooperated with one another to get the word out. We attended one another’s events, met lifelong friends, and even the loves of our lives.

To a large extent, this is still happening today!

It’s in this spirit of solidarity and camaraderie that the planners of
St. Pete 2009 are organizing and focusing this year’s St. Pete national beach event. Everyone is welcome, regardless of where you’re from, and to whom your “allegiances” lie. We hope your true allegiance is to the H community as a whole, and that you’ll come out to meet and play with the 200-300 of us who usually attend St. Pete in November!

The St. Pete 2009 website will be launched in a very few days, and
another post will follow with its web address soon. Hang in – we’re
almost there!

MPWH MEMBERS: AN ALERT

As a courtesy to MPwH, I must inform MPwH members about a communication I received from MPwH administration, implying a connection between the St. Pete event and potential termination of your MPwH account.

As I had difficulty understanding the exact meaning of these statements, as well as the exact behavior of MPwH members that violates the MPwH Terms of Service, I wrote MPwH for clarification 7 days ago, but never received an answer. Therefore, I urge MPwH members to find out for sure, yourselves, what MPwH does not allow you to do, ON AND OFF the MPwH website, regarding St. Pete, or any other non-MPwH activity.

Be safe, happy, and in love with life! I hope to see many members of
the H community on the beaches and ballrooms of St. Pete in November!

So excited I can hardly stand it…

Cat >”<
Lead Planner, St. Pete 2009