So what like got you to be this expert

that you are? Like, how did we get here? Um, A couple things.

One, so I have a background in public health.

So I work in public health and sex ed.

So that's what I do, like, in my day job.

Yeah, a dying breed, also.

Sex ed.

Let's do one more.

So Ashley, I'm really curious from you, from somebody who is HIV negative but acknowledges yourself as HIV possible, why did you get on PrEP, and how did that conversation even come about?

Outside of Sex With Ashley, I work in public health.

So I work in the HIV space as a program coordinator for, for an organization here in Atlanta, Georgia.

So I learned about PrEP through work.

PrEP is, uh, pre-exposure prophylaxis, so pre-, meaning before exposure.

Um, and so what...

So PrEP, I often s- use it, it is like the birth control of HIV.

What's the balancing act between let's, like, decrease the sort of shock value and scare value that we have utilized to try to drive people to have safer sex so that people who are living with a STI are not necessarily as stigmatized, and people aren't as afraid to go to the doctor and get a diagnosis that is going to ruin their perfect, clean record, while also acknowledging that it can and does decrease your quality of life, so we do need to prioritize safe sex because getting an STI is, is not always no big deal?