Sex in space is serious business, scientists report

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Originally published at: Sex in space is serious business, scientists report | Boing Boing

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and develop and disseminate inseminate best practice approaches

The Finbarr Saunders in me couldn’t resist, sorry.

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Of any reason for building a gravity restoring carousel on a space ship should we be greatly surprised if this turns out to be in the top three? (artificial gravity / 2001 film carousel)

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Sex in a carousel aboard a spaceship might be technically sex in space, and it’s sort of equivalent to the people who have sex in airplanes (the Hundred-Mile High Club?): they do it because it’s unusual. But – assuming the carousel provides a full 1G equivalent, it wouldn’t be that different from sex on the ground. At that point, it’s purely about location (*); the desire to say that you have boldly cum where no man (or woman) has cum before.

What no one has (officially) tried yet is sex in micro-gravity, which would actually be a fully novel experience. I’m with the people who say that “weightless” sex would probably be both impractical and unenjoyable (**). Nevertheless, you know that someone (or some two) wants to be the first.

(*) I assume that someone holds a record for “highest-altitude sex” or “sex in the fastest-moving vehicle”; there may be similar records for “deepest sex” (sex in a bathyscaphe, anyone?).

(**) Penetrative sex is probably challenging in microgravity, thanks to the buzzkill known as Newton’s Third Law. Other forms of sex might be easier to accomplish, and perhaps even pleasurable.

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I’m definitely blaming any erectile dysfunction on Newton’s Third Law in the vain hope my partner feels sorry for me and doesn’t ask me to explain it in any detail.

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Becoming an astronaut requires a tremendous amount of discipline, and a healthy respect for proper procedure.

With that said, if I’m these people, at some point to my fellow crew members: “Hey, don’t y’all want to go to the flight deck for a while and talk amongst yourselves for a bit? We’ll just…be back here.”

Best. Honeymoon. EVER.

Edit: Bonus content: article on the same topic by former Boinger Maggie Koerth!

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The traditional music makes it difficult.

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“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.”

― John Varley, Titan

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When I read the words “sex in space”, in my head it was voiced by the same guy who did the “Pigs In Spaaaaaaace” Muppet Show voiceovers.

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