California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) shamed Americans for leaving their house during covid but says gay men must be free to have sex with as many strangers as they please despite monkeypox being declared a public health emergency.

"If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex," Wiener told the Washington Post on Thursday. "I know people who normally go to sex parties who will not. People will make their own decisions about their own risk levels."

Wiener is overseeing California's monkeypox response as head of the newly-formed Senate Select Committee on Monkeypox.

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