Small group of people who only have
sex among themselves presumably to help lower their risk of STIs, HIV, Monkeypox, COVID, etc. Pod members monitor symptoms after last exposure and limit sexual partners to other pod members.
Initially adapted from POZ.COM article, "
Six Ways We Can Have Safer Sex in the
Time of Monkeypox" by Nicholas Diamond, Joe Osmundson, and
Grant Roth. Featured on info-graphics from Gay Sexuality & Social Policy Initiative at University of Southern California Los Angles Luskin.