Well this isn’t the kind of headline you wanna read right before you search for booty, but it is important! Apparently us sexually active Americans need a reminder to practice safe sex, cause we have a big STD problem doing on.

Via Gizmodo:

Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing annual rise in STDs. Preliminary data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia all went up last year.

Oh, and don’t forget monkeypox:

If all this isn’t bad enough, 2022 has also seen the widespread global emergence of human monkeypox. Though the viral illness can spread to others through any form of prolonged contact, the current epidemic is primarily being transmitted through contact during sex, most often among men who have sex with men with multiple recent partners. The future of monkeypox is uncertain, but many experts fear that it will become a new regularly occurring STD, albeit one that can be managed with an effective vaccine and antiviral treatments.

So, what the hell can we do to stop this crisis?

Mena argued that there are still steps that can be taken to reduce the incidence of STDs. These include reducing the stigma associated with STDs, educating and convincing people to adopt safe sex practices like condoms, and making it easier and cheaper for people to get tested. One important way to improve testing, he added, would be the development of at-home tests, similar to those now widely available for covid-19 or pregnancy.

You read that right guys – STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED CASUAL SEX! I’m talking to you, guys who insist you don’t like condoms. Knock it off.