Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you.

I'm going to open the show just talking a little bit about what's going on with monkeypox.

I want to really advocate for those that meet the criteria to definitely go get vaccinated. I think it's very important.

I want to just spend a couple minutes talking about what the local health organizations are kind of saying in terms of activity risk.

And I think this is important.

You know, we're always trying to normalize sexual health and wellness, the transparency of possibility of transmitting something to someone and disclosing whatever someone might come in contact with as a sexual or romantic partner.

You know, it's part of sexual health and wellness is asking questions and feeling safe,

answering questions honestly.

And I'm always trying to help us reduce the stigma by talking about these topics.

I say this always lovingly, but if you're not ready or confident enough to ask questions,

you're probably not ready or confident enough to have sex or come in certain kinds of intimate

contact with others we have to practice these conversations and the way we do that is by getting

more familiar hearing the discussions being had so again the information is always getting updated

and we can only report you know based on where. But again, I'm recommending people that meet the

criteria to please go get vaccinated. And right now, they're really talking about those that are,

you know, have had STDs or STIs in the past couple weeks, maybe have come in contact with

or attended some kind of sex party or event that included sexuality and eroticism.

But again, let's talk about risk transmission.

So the most risky in terms of, again, the monkeypox transmission would be direct contact

with someone who has rashes, scabs, or body fluids.

Also sexual or intimate contact.

And of course, we're making note that condoms do not protect against monkey pox

...