Your buddy is wrong. Herpes is transmitted by person to person contact, not indirectly and absolutely not by a bar of soap. The soap would have inactivated any virus that it came in contact with. You have nothing to worry about. EWH
Does that include the towel as well?
Yes it includes the towel. EWH
So neither soap nor a towel can transmit HSV 2?
Read the response. that is what is says. EWH