As we celebrate President Barack Obama's buoyant farewell speech, President-elect Donald Trump is at the center of a scandal that has gone viral. CNN and Buzzfeed published news reports that the Russian government has compromising information about our President-elect, with Buzzfeed publishing the full, unverified intelligence dossier of information that includes supposed evidence of Donald Trump's "sexual perversion”. As expected, there was a massive Twitter freak-out. Also not surprising is that Twitter has led the conversation in the complete wrong direction. While some users were posting selfies of themselves crying in response to Obama's elegant address that at times felt like a eulogy for an era marked by progressive change, others were preoccupied with claims from the report that Donald Trump may or may not be sexually aroused by urination.

Both #Watersportsgate and #GoldenShowers have been trending overnight and this morning, as people are obsessing over an alleged incident described in the report in which Trump supposedly paid women to urinate on a hotel bed at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are said to have once slept.

Golden showers, also known as urolagnia and sometimes called water sports, refer to being turned on by urination in the context of sexual activity. Regardless of how you personally feel about it, there is nothing inherently wrong with golden showers as long as all parties involved have enthusiastically consented to the situation. Twitter and various media publications, however, seem to be missing the point. If allegations are true, and the Russian government does have compromising financial and personal information about Donald Trump, then we should be more concerned about whether or not this will have an effect on his foreign policy — and not laughing at his sexual preferences.

"People are so focused on the 'scandalous' sex act that they're missing the treason," activist and writer Jaclyn Friedman, who speaks on healthy sexuality and consent, tells Teen Vogue. "The big scandal here, which is getting lost in all the pointing and laughing, is that, if these allegations are true, he's compromised U.S. sovereignty by being either blackmailed or blackmailable by Russia."

Instead, the conversation has been driven by the viral scandalizing of Donald Trump's sexual desires.

"When we stigmatize other people's consensual sexual preferences, when we make them feel ashamed, they're less likely to be able to negotiate safer sex freely, or to speak up if they're being abused by a sexual partner," Friedman says. "Millions of people are listening to this conversation. Some of them surely have engaged in urine play before, or want to. Whether Trump is a worthy target or not, other people are being harmed by stigmatizing golden showers."

"It is, of course, scandalous and hella racist that he made a point to defile the bed the Obamas slept in," she adds. Indeed, it is important to distinguish the difference between what's going viral and what's in the document. The former is the concept of someone being sexually excited by pee, which is a sexual preference some people have. The document, on the other hand, contains alleged evidence that President-elect Donald Trump intentionally disrespected the President of the United States, and that he did so in a way that is reminiscent of a long controversial wartime tradition that violates military law. But that is a conversation for another time.

Regardless of whether you were #blessed with sex ed or not, you may remember boys being painfully humiliated for their spontaneous erections mid-math class, or the period shaming that ensued after someone asked for a tampon too loudly. Of course, any adult who has experienced some kind of basic sex education (whether formal or from personal experience) will tell you that erections and periods are perfectly normal and nothing to be embarrassed about.