Quote Originally Posted by aot871 View Post
The trouble with with your answer , is that it's not an STD, in the proper sence . If you use a towel or lay in the same bed as some with it that's where you catch it from , it's body contact as opposed to body fluids
You're right that monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease in the classic sense in that it’s not spread through semen or only via sex, but behaves similarly to one by affecting individuals who have had close physical contact.
I understand that it spreads through bodily fluids, that's why I said it will definitely impact gay saunas (which were one of the earliest hotspots in Europe) and hotels might even adopt a "no visitors" policy, but that's only if the outbreak is really big and the media makes a big case out of it. It doesn't seem to be the case so far in Thailand.

What's not really fully understood is if monkeypox spreads asymptomatically, but the viral load is definitely higher when they symptoms appear.
Who knows, maybe a practice of mutual skin examination before sex will start out of this