In Reply to: Didn't they use clorine? posted by Alan on July 09, 2004 at 14:18:56:
Yeah, I wonder that too. My guess is they weren't being careful enough with their towels. I've lived in homes where the home was divided into the non-herpes and the herpes "sharing" camps and you weren't allowed to cross the lines. But it seemed that all the time it was announced that someone new had just caught herpes so the herpes people had a new person,and that new person had to get a list of who all his or her new sex partners were.
I think you're right that they wouldn't have gotten herpes from pool water, though the thought of all that chlorinated semen floating around the top of the pool is sick enough. Who cares if the sperm were dead if their little sticky corpses were getting into your hair?