Hooking Up with Dr. B & Rasheed
Oct 1, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
Dr. B & Rasheed show us how protection can be sexy. While we can all agree that STIs are never sexy, the good news is that we can be tested for them and treated, and we learn how all that works. And…
Adele Schwartz BenzakenHost
Rasheed GongaHost
So for today's Just the Tip, I have a story about an ex of mine that was on vacation in DR and apparently the men are really hot in DR and he had some fun and came back and suspected that he had gonorrhea of the throat.
And so for a long time, not a long time, for a couple days, he was like, we can't do anything.
We're not gonna kiss, we're not gonna do anything, because I just don't want to expose you.
And I think that was one of the first experiences that I had of someone openly talking about STIs.
open freely with your partner and bring him also to the service to be tested.
So the second tip, Rashid, is that people has to know that when they got to the health service, they have to take sample from different sites of the body.
And depending of what kind of sex you do, very often is all the sites involved, you know that? And because of that, they have to know that they have to take samples from the trove, from the anal area, and also from the urethral area.
And for women, we cannot forget that some women, they have anal sex too.
And so we have to take samples not only from the anal area, but also from the cervix from the woman.
call here three-site testing, right? So there's the throat, and for us men, it's urine, and then the rectal swab.
Yeah, for urine, if we compare, for example, the publications about what is more sensitive, if it's urine or to collect from the Rita.
So for today's Just the Tip, I have a story about an ex of mine that was on vacation in DR and apparently the men are really hot in DR and he had some fun and came back and suspected that he had gonorrhea of the throat.
And so for a long time, not a long time, for a couple days, he was like, we can't do anything.
We're not gonna kiss, we're not gonna do anything, because I just don't want to expose you.
And I think that was one of the first experiences that I had of someone openly talking about STIs.
open freely with your partner and bring him also to the service to be tested.
So the second tip, Rashid, is that people has to know that when they got to the health service, they have to take sample from different sites of the body.
And depending of what kind of sex you do, very often is all the sites involved, you know that? And because of that, they have to know that they have to take samples from the trove, from the anal area, and also from the urethral area.
And for women, we cannot forget that some women, they have anal sex too.
And so we have to take samples not only from the anal area, but also from the cervix from the woman.
call here three-site testing, right? So there's the throat, and for us men, it's urine, and then the rectal swab.
Yeah, for urine, if we compare, for example, the publications about what is more sensitive, if it's urine or to collect from the Rita.
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