Sex in Space
We ask all the wrong questions
I read these two articles this week:
The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream
I realize that when presented in this manner, the two articles seem a little bit more tawdry than they were probably intended.
Or are they?
My question after reading these, and following up with a bit more research, is this:
“Has anyone—or, more appropriately, “Have any two (or more)—ever had sex in space?
If you tell me that you haven’t wondered this, or even at least thought about it for a second, then you are lying to me. You can’t tell me that you can think about what it would be like to float through 0-gravity attached to a makeshift medicine ball of your own design without thinking: I wonder if it would be difficult to stay engaged while copulating at 0-G’s.
Or maybe that is just what I think about when people start talking about “games” aboard the International Space Station and “whipped cream in space.”
Come on people. Lighten up. We went through the whole “space toilet: everybody poops” scenario about 15 years ago. I think that it is high time that we discuss the realities of performing “the deed” while floating, unencumbered through the void.
And, if none of the ISS crew nor any Soyuz or space shuttle crew from the USA was ever done it, I will eat my words. But, if this is the case, then we have a whole new—and really fascinating—set of experiments to carry out, don’t we?
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This may or may not answer your questions, depending on wether you understand it or not…
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,521806,00.html
Anyways: How are you doing?
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Well, at least someone else in the world is interested in this topic. I love the way they frame: “Is it even possible for men to get and erection in space?”
I’m sure it’s not a problem.
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The Russians, probably. The “Right Stuff” generation, not so likely. But on some of those early broadcasts of co-ed American missions, there were some awfully wide grins. And these are highly intelligent extroverts in peak physical condition.