My Letter to The View

In my own personal situation, I was a stay at home mom of twin boys.  I was a good wife and a good mother who unfortunately married a man with an addiction to women. Through his antics I became "one of those people." Never in a million years did I ever think I would be sitting on this side of the STD wall.

My own vocal ability is NOT a reflection of the majority, but a choice I made initially to ruin my ex's social life. Fortunately over the years, I have taken my vocal ability and can now speak only as an example of millions of my peers who can not because of fear! Even as confident as I have grown in my own skin, I have faced rejection and humiliation. I have also known three individuals who took their own lives because they could not face another day of living with a sexually transmitted disease.

The most common way genital herpes is being spread and/or contracted is through oral sex. People with cold sores are passing the virus on simply because they believe oral sex is safe sex, IT ISN'T!

Rather than take your position and ability to reach a large number of people and using it to condemn, why not take it to help the people who are trying to educate the world on the risks, preventions and treatments of herpes. YES there are ways in which an infected person and a non-infected person can have a happy healthy relationship without spreading the virus. My husband does not have herpes, Why? Because I am educated and KNOW what to do to greatly reduce his risk! But it involved honesty and communication! Not silence such as what you encouraged.

I urge you to reconsider your previous comments for the good of a much larger society and consider doing a show that would combat the stigma rather than encourage it. People with herpes have faces, names, careers, they could easily be your mother, father, son, daughter, sister, teacher, mentor or even your own doctor. People with herpes do have hearts, we bleed and hurt just like everyone else and your comments on the show I saw today were hurtful, vicious and totally uncalled for.

I have taken the time to revise and re-revise this letter to make it as non-flaming as possible, and have been steamed this entire day. Just be thankful I am not oriental, overweight AND have herpes! Since you poked fun at them too!

Regards,

Gayla Baer McCord

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