Sex as Emotional Negotiation Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex as Emotional Negotiation from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how sex can become a space where unspoken needs, hopes, limits, and fears are quietly exchanged, how emotional concessions are made in order to sustain connection, and how silence often carries more weight than explicit agreement. We explore the subtle compromises people participate in, the tension between desire and uncertainty, and the emotional residue that lingers when connection is shaped by terms that were never fully named.