sexuallytransmittedinfection
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Whether You Really Need to Pee After Sex, According to Science
If you have a vagina, you’ve probably been told that it’s an absolute must to pee immediately after having sex to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). But it turns out there isn’t a lot of evidence to support this idea. There is shockingly little research on the question of whether this oft-repeated advice actually works.…
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Is Monkeypox a Sexually Transmitted Disease?
In declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organisation on Monday acknowledged that currently this outbreak is concentrated among men who have sex with men. The WHO director-general’s statement followed this by saying that “stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus.”