I have genital herpes and so does my partner. It seems every few times we have sex he has an outbreak, I have never had any symptoms. Is having sex with me causing him to have outbreaks? If I am shedding the virus is that going to cause him to have an outbreak? His first outbreak was in January, he was in Cairo for 5 months, came home and had an outbreak after about 4-5 times of having sex, then he is having another now after we had sex only 3 times after his last. Seems like sex is causing it.