https://thenewamerican.com/researchers-yes-gay-sex-not-skin-contact-is-fueling-monkeypox/
Is the monkeypox scare narrative already beginning to crumble?
While the prevailing opinion from public health officials on monkeypox (MPX) has thus far been that the disease is primarily being transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, a growing number of experts now believe the outbreak is, in fact, chiefly driven by man-on-man sex itself — both anal and oral sex.
Even the skin contact that is involved in sex, the experts say, is far less a factor than the sex itself.
This new opinion is based on an increasing pool of evidence that includes three studies published in peer-reviewed journals (see here, here, and here), as well as widely circulated reports.
The ramifications of the evidence are immense, as knowledge of the disease’s transmission forms the basis for developing guidelines and policies to counteract its spread.
“A growing body of evidence supports that sexual transmission, particularly through seminal fluids, is occurring with the current MPX outbreak,” Dr. Aniruddha Hazra, medical director of the University of Chicago Sexual Wellness Clinic, told NBC News in reference to studies that found the monkeypox virus in semen.
As a result of the new insights, scientists told NBC News that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health authorities should accordingly update their resources to emphasize the crucial role in transmission played by the sexual relations of homosexual and bisexual men.