Finding Lust Through Emotional Floor Plan

Quote: "...it wasn't that I didn't like the sex that was available to me in my relationship. I knew that like if I could just get there...if I could just get in the mood...that we would have a good time. And yet I couldn't...I was stuck someplace..."

• Emily Nagoski shares a personal anecdote about feeling stuck and unable to access lust in her relationship, even though she enjoyed the sex itself.
• She realized she needed a tool to help her move from her stuck emotional state into a place of lust. This led her to explore affective neuroscience and develop the emotional floor plan.
• Despite her efforts, understanding how human emotion worked was challenging due to lack of consensus. Her research pointed to the model developed by Yock Penkseps.