Genital warts are not the end of the world... you'll come to find this out. If you're healthy and have a strong immune system, your body should clear the virus out on its own within a year. As the others said, it's nothing to be beating yourself up over. Maybe the reason you're being "shot down" is because you're freaking out about it, so these girls will obviously freak out about it too. Most people I know with HPV say they haven't had an issue with partners if they take the time to tell them about HPV and discuss the positives about it... especially if you tell them that most sexually active people out there will contract a strain of it in their lifetime. Most of my girlfriends have HPV or have had a strain of it... and that's only the ones who have had physical symptoms, whether it be warts or pre-cancerous cells. Not everyone who has it shows signs of it, but they can still pass it off to their partners. So if most of us are walking around with this and only some exhibit symptoms... then anyone who is having sex is at risk of getting it because you simply can't always know. It's the most common STI out there. That makes it sound a little less brutal, doesn't it?