Alie Ward

It's sexually transmitted infections.

Let's practice some erotic medicine with an expert you're going to fall in love with mentally.

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Worth the wait.

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Okay, on to this week's guest.

They are the author of the wonderfully informative, hilarious, boldly authentic science book, Strange Bedfellows, Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs, a book, the cover of which features like crisp, rumpled white sheets and a stuffed crab in it.

And one review for this book puts it very elegantly, whether you have an STI or not, whether you have sex or not, whether you're queer or not,

This is a must-read book for 2020s America.