Getting Close

Aidan Wharton
aidanfwreads@gmail.com (+1 verified host & producer email)

Booking Overview

Getting Close is a relationship-and-identity podcast where host Aidan Wharton talks with culture-shaping voices about queerness, sex, connection, and community. Each episode mixes practical insight with lived experience, making it a strong fit for human-interest and values-driven PR pitches.

Metrics

Episodes: 20

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 52.0k followers

30s Ad: 51 - 57, 60s Ad: 60 - 67

Contact Form

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Host

Aidan Wharton - Host of Getting Close. He sits down with culture-shaping voices to explore how people connect, love, and build relationships in the modern world—especially around relationships, queerness, sex, con...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Culture-shaping writers/creators, LGBTQ historians/advocates, and accessible experts in sexual health/relationships (often with recognizable media credibility or published work). Many guests have public-facing authorship and/or established media audiences.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or memoir/essay collections, Bylines in major publications, Award-winning or widely recognized podcast/film/TV work, Clinic or education brand with credible subject-matter expertise, Documented advocacy or community impact projects

Recent Guest Discussions

Rachel Karp - Queer Bar History And Gentrification; Lesbian Bar Preservation; Community And Access In LGBTQ Spaces.

Chris Bustamante - Performance Anxiety; Testosterone/sexual Health; Porn Habits And Expectations; Sexting Pitfalls; Comfort And Sexual Communication.

John Paul Brammer - Happiness And Advice-giving; Loneliness In Community; Autonomy; Thought/mental Hygiene; Trust And Discomfort In Relationships.

Recent Topics

Queerness, Relationships, Sex, Community, Connection, Identity, Mental Health, Dating, Sexual Health, LGBTQ

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Getting Close
:

Lesbian Bar Historian — on Windows as Protest, Queer Bar Gentrification, and How You Can Save Them

May 19, 2026

If a gay bar you love has ever shut down, you must listen to this episode.In this episode, Rachel Karp and I get into her incredible road trip where she visited every lesbian bar in the country with her wife and best friend. She takes us on a tour of Queer bar history, complete with a legal fight to wear pants, how windows are actually a sign of progress, the difference between blue state bars and red, how bars are changing to keep up with the times, and four ways you can actually help your f...

Gay Bulge Expert (on Performance Anxiety, Holetox, & Sexting Pitfalls)

May 12, 2026

If you’ve ever avoided sex because you were scared of what might happen, this episode is for you.In this episode, nurse aesthetician and founder of Lushful Aesthetics, Chris Bustamante, and I explore all things dick-related. We get into why performance anxiety happens, what your testosterone is doing in your body, how your porn habits might be affecting sex, and why your sexting habits might need to change. CHRIS BUSTAMANTE is an aesthetic nurse practitioner and received his doctorate of Nurs...

3 Lessons To Make You Happier with JP Brammer

May 05, 2026

If you’re tired of all the noise and want three simple tips to find a little more happiness, this is the episode for you. Today, you and I are sitting down with JP Brammer as he reveals three lessons that are making him genuinely happier right now. We learn how to ask for what you need, why you need to wash your thoughts like dishes, why you might feel lonely in a group of gays, the corrosive effects of comfort, and how to really trust what’s best for you.John Paul Brammer is an award-winnin...

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