Alie Ward

So either way, good to get it checked out.

Yeah.

Yeah, don't go straight from the shower to a party.

Yeah, don't do it.

I'm so sorry to burst your bubble bath here, but let your crotch just catch its breath for a second.

And speaking of bursting, let's very quickly, so quickly, just dip into some stomach churners.

So Noah Susan Goblin Prince and Nevin Lawrence asked in Nevin's words, I know there were myths involving bestiality, but like, really?

And Magda Kosowska opened my horrified eyes with the question, is the story about Columbus getting chlamydia from fucking a llama at all plausible?

This question led me down a dark, dark warren of the 2011 Smithsonian article, Case Closed, Columbus Introduced Syphilis to Europe, which begins poetically.

In 1942, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from across the seas, did he bring with him a new disease?

And it continues, new skeletal evidence suggests Columbus and his crew not only introduced the old world to the new world, but brought back syphilis as well, the researchers say.

His legacy continues.

Also for you, very quickly, I found several studies involving contracting infections from barnyard animals.

And that's really all you need to know about that.

There was a 2023 study in the Brazilian Journal of Urology, and it notes that SWA, or sex with animals among men and sexually transmitted infections in Northeast Brazil, prevalence, associated factors, and behavioral aspects divulged that, yeah, it happens, and that SWA, sex with animals,

was associated with increasing age, rural areas, heterosexuality, alcohol use, and the Catholic faith.

So folks living out in the country, drinking beers, going to church, don't go telling city people what to do with their junk because you got plenty of judgment that you can cast real locally.

And that's enough of that.

Anywho, Ariel Van Sant asked Dr. Park, what is your favorite myth to bust?

Let's say that you could have a blimp in the sky that busted some flim flam.