No, it is NOT just a skin condition. I had a primary outbreak SO bad I had urinary retention to the point I was stuck w a catheter for a week or two. The trauma of the whole experience gave me literal PTSD. I have constant painful nerve pain and outbreaks every other week and I'm 8 years in. Who the heck is going to have or be able to "have" sex with me in this constant state, consider yourself lucky for yourself that for your body, "it is just skin condition". What you exp is not everyone's experience. I am poisonous to a partner for the rest of my life until I get this under control and meds are giving me side effects more dangering than the outbreak itself to a partner. I'm at a loss. I WISH I could have what you have w your outbreaks. I'd give anything for dormancy and to stop reliving constant flashbacks of my ex screaming at me and abusing me and getting this off of him without my consent. THAT is why people feel the way they do.