By socking it, I presume you meant use a condom. If so, you are wrong. Monkey pox can be spread by any contact, at least if there are actual pox present. You could hold a baby with pox against your bare skin and get it. Maybe sex using a wet suit, so long as no pox on the face. ;-)
Since milk maids of old were unlikely to get smallpox because they often got cow pox, does this mean they also could not get monkey pox if they were ever infected with cow pox? Does this also mean that if a person had monkey pox they would not get smallpox, or at least a very mild case?
The vaccines used against Monkeypox are Smallpox vaccines made from Vaccinia viruses. Orthopox viruses are all very similar as they are DNA viruses that have pretty slow mutation rates. The particular vaccine being used was developed in Ankara, Turkey in the 1960's by German scientists. It has been passed almost 700 times from one chicken culture to another to the point where it can't replicate in mammalian cells. It is much safer than the older Smallpox vaccines that can't be used in people with weakened immune systems.