Alie Ward

And they do it so well.

so good.

So slip into something more comfortable and open your ears for sores, muffs, condoms, testing schedules, titillating vaccine developments, difficult conversations, resilience, HIV magic, stepping out versus opening up, toilet seats, antibiotics, new scientific shockers about bacterial vaginosis.

crotch crickets, conservative obstructions, the secrets of Columbus, and most importantly, how to stay horny, true to yourself, and safe with researcher, MD, sex positive, sexual health advocate, author, and venereologist, Dr. Ina Park.

There's no treatment for a syphilis tattoo, but there is treatment for syphilis, right?

And I will also have you say your first and last name and your pronouns just to make sure I say everything right.

Ina Park.

She, her.

And as I was saying before we started recording, Dr. Park.

But you said if you're seeing me for a vaginal or erectile exam, then I can call you doctor.

Other than that, it's Ina.

Other than that, it's Ina.

That's right.

Okay.

I'm so excited to have you on.

This is a topic that just fresh off of the title, I think a lot of people grew up thinking STDs.

Now we call them STIs.

Can you explain a little bit about that change?

And as you may have learned in our recent Venusology episode about the fascinating planet of love with the galactically charming Dr. Vicki Hansen, Venus is, was the Roman goddess of love, and hence venereal means of or pertaining to sexual desire or intercourse.

Hell yeah, people who've had sexually transmitted infections for untold millennia.