The answer would be the same if you asked in the year 2000, or in the year 2o50. The well-known and well-established methods of transmission and science behind outbreaks are not suddenly going to change.
Have you been diagnosed with herpes?
Herpes infects nerve groups. If you have genital herpes, it infects the sacral ganglia. This means that it can not affect any other part of your body, and can not travel to any other part of your body. It will stay in areas affected by that nerve group.
You can get outbreaks anywhere in the area that boxer shorts cover, but you won't suddenly get them on your arms, back, etc.
If you have oral herpes, it infects the trigeminal nerve, and can get outbreaks on/in the mouth, nose, eye. You won't suddenly get that traveling to your arm or back, either.
We've always known that. I don't see that question from you in 2016, and your account was created in 2017.