LOS ANGELES — With monkeypox on the rise, Lady Kay decided to hold off on meeting clients in hotel rooms or private dungeons.
The 32-year-old dominatrix had already been taking precautions to protect herself from the coronavirus, insisting that clients show that they were vaccinated against COVID-19 or had recently tested negative. Now the South Los Angeles resident was worried about the newest outbreak — an infectious virus that can travel through skin-to-skin contact and has spread in intimate encounters.
"I want to get more into making sure my limbs are covered," added Lady Kay, a transgender woman who asked to go by the pseudonym that she uses for sex work. "And I definitely want to more judiciously wear gloves — latex gloves. Which adds to the aesthetic anyway."
