Hi, I'm 22 and on new years eve I decided to shave my pubic hair just for the heck of it. The next day I started to see some small red bumps that itched. I started to worry so I cleaned it and most of it went away but it left 3 bumps around my gential. I been looking up stuff about herpes these past week and I think I have genital herpes. I dunno what to think. I'm really confused. How am I going to tell my girl friend? (we both who are still virgins) How do i cope with this? Do I really have gential? :eek: someone please responed - ConfusedMale

Well if you said that the bumps appeared right after you shaved... then I highly doubt it is herpes. You can contract it from wet towels that an infected person has used or if you have oral herpes and touch your sore and then touch yourself down there, but it seems very unlikely. If you really want to know for sure go and get a blood test for simplex 1 and two. But I highly doubt you have anything.

I think you need to relax a little bit - what is making you think you have genital herpes? Simply your genital symptoms? I agree with the above poster that you are highly likely to be seeing effects from your decision to shave the genital area.

Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease. It is feasibly possible to transmit it in other ways - as the above poster says, from sharing wet towels, for example, but that would be exceptionally rare. If you have never had any kind of sex - and that would include oral sex, as herpes can also be transmitted through oral sex - it is very, very unlikely that you have genital herpes. There is a small possibility, if you have oral herpes, that you have transmitted it to the genitals, but once again, the chances are very low.

Try to put your mind at rest - sounds like bumps from shaving to me - very common. Hair follicles may be infected down there. Is there a small hair inside each bump?

Sounds like you irritated some hair follicles, and then maybe some got infected. Relax.

I agree, relax!! Ask women who shave or wax down there, they get loads of red spots right after and i'd say males would be the same. Aloe vera gel or lavender ointment is very soothing for after shaving/waxing.