Jonathan Van Ness would like to talk to you about butt health
Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness.Last December, during one of his tour appearances in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Ness shared with the audience that he’d recently had a fistula.
He didn’t go into great detail and didn’t plan to talk more about it. However, now that he’s recovered, he began to think how taboo it is to talk about such health issues.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.He decided to devote an episode of his Getting Curious podcast to the subject of fistulas (an “evil Kellyanne Conway of an ailment”) and general anal health. “I wasn’t going to talk about it but then I realized, we need to talk about anal health, because it affects so many people whether you indulge in anal sex or not,” Van Ness says on the show.
To help him, he is joined by Dr. Evan Goldstein, an expert in all matters butt-related. Goldstein is also the founder of Bespoke Surgical and Co-founder of Future Method, which produces products to support good butt health.
In an Instagram post to promote the show, Van Ness says he was “so stressed” late last year that he “grew a second butthole called a fistula.”A post shared by Getting Curious With JVN (@curiouswithjvn)If you have little knowledge about fistulas and fissures, here are the basics.A fissure is a fancy word for a tear.
