Word: riccio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like the Boy Scouts, we're prepared," saidChief Petty Officer Art Riccio...
...puzzle, an enigma," says Dr. John Grossman, a Washington, D.C., gynecologist. "The medical community doesn't do very well with viruses anyway, and with this one, our bodies aren't able to give us any assistance in killing it." All by itself, says New York Group Therapist Dominick Riccio, herpes has changed the uneasy balance between sex for pleasure and sex for commitment. "People are beginning to realize that romance is what relationships are all about," Riccio says. "They're disillusioned with free sex and terrified of getting herpes and having it forever...
This balming of the sore by the psyche may be the best palliative. Once anger and aggression are dealt with, says Therapist Riccio, a herpes sufferer can develop the kind of psychological calm that makes recurrences milder and rarer. Most manage that within six months, according to Fordham Professor Oscar Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York Help chapter. "Given the appropriate information," Gillespie says, "90% of herpes sufferers will adjust after the initial crisis...