More afraid of HSV as opposed to HIV/AIDS simply because it's exponentially easier to contract HSV. The overwhelming majority of people that contract HIV do so through the sharing of foreign objects such as needles, NOT sex. Your chances of contracting HIV by sleeping with random women, unprotected, are extremely slim even if you mistakenly had sexual contact with several who are carriers. The use of condoms reduce that risk even more. Herpes on the other hand is highly contagious and condoms won't (not even close) entirely prevent transmission.EastWind said:Also, if you're more scared of getting Herpes than HIV, there's something seriously wrong with your ranking system. The one gives you a rash - admittedly uncomfortable and somewhat embarrassing - and the other one kills you. I know which one I'd chose.
I hope you're aware that around 25% (yes about 1 out of 4) females in the United States carry that herpes bull****. It would be very unwise to see it as nothing more then an inconvenient itch. There's a reason why those who display little to no symptoms are considered "lucky". Did you also know that herpes does in fact make it significantly easier to contract HIV? I'm not going to have a pointless debate about which virus is better having as I'd rather have none. I'll leave that one up to you and your "superior" ranking system.