Are you kidding?
ever have a cold sore and/or chicken pox?
congratulations, you've had a virus of the herpes family
hsv2 is the primary sexual one, hsv1 can sometimes affect genitalia, and the rest can cause shit ranging from aforementioned chickenpox/cold sores to pneumonia and mono and even some cancers
x is also correct in "junk herps ain't that bad actually, yo", considering it's basically just chicken pox on your crotch
dickin' pox, dare i say?
so yeah, ~90% of the adult populace has some form of the little bastard in some form or another (usually it's dormant, and often in nerve clusters because the immune system generally won't fuck with nerve cells)