Here's What's Being Advertised When I Watch "Monk"

I’ve probably seen the commercial 20+ times and I never gave it a second thought. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s a commercial for Valtrex.

The commercial starts out with all these hip looking twenty-somethings talking about their herpes while loading a kayak onto their four-runner or doing some other activity that subtly tells me how cool they are.




Usually the supposedly disease-free girlfriend is sitting next to her boyfriend talking openly about his STD—in actuality this girl is much too attractive for me to believe that she would want to have anything to do with some herpe-farm d-bag. Or some other girl is talking about careful she has to be because she has herpes and her boyfriend doesn’t. The guy just sits there smiling like an idiot. Really dude? She has herpes, you don’t, and you’re sticking around? Really? Really?

Whatever. This doesn’t even bother me. Truthfully, I don’t care about any of that at all. In fact, I was just using that as filler to get to what really concerns me. I didn’t want this post to be too short to be taken seriously. This is important.

Here it is. This is in the commercial:

“70% of people with herpes got it when their partner showed no signs of an outbreak.”

Think about this.

This means that that 30% of people with herpes got it when their partner was showing signs of an outbreak. 3 out of 10 people who have herpes saw visible evidence that there was something disgusting going on, and went for it anyway. Sick.

“Yeah bro, she was totally all over me. Chick totally wanted me, so I disregarded the fact that I would almost certainly contract an incurable virus that causes outbreaks of nasty sores on my dong. It was sweet.”

Hey 30%, enjoy your herpes. You deserve them.