I understand being cautious about mistakes made during the AIDS crisis but you do a disservice to gay men by coddling them and not educating them on the risks they face, which are unique in this case. While skin to skin contact with a lesion can happen, it's a rare form of transmission. People with open sores don't tend to be walking around in public and touching other people. What is far more common is sexual contact between men or multiple men where one is hiding an infection or lesion. Or has a lesion he doesn't know he has - perhaps in his anus, for instance. Or mouth.
Facts are facts. The vast majority of transmission is coming from gay men, or men who have sex with men. If you are not having sexual contact with men who have sex with men, your risk of contract monkeypox is exceptionally low. If you're a women it's even lower.
Which means that gay men/men who have sex with men should be told to wear a fukking condom and avoid sex parties.