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For Better or Worse, Sex in Space is Inevitable

livescience.com — For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much. Beyond space tourism as a platform for steamy shenanigans, space missions are the perfect petri dishes for close encounters, and this year NASA certainly has a busy flight schedule, with five missions planned.

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  • ChayesFSS, on 07/07/2008, -2/+53I'm more worried about ensuring I get enough here on earth, can't care about space yet
    • sanman, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6Just remember, if she's wearing astronaut diapers and a wig, it's not for kinky zero-g foreplay. Stay clear of her.
    • dasdef, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7if you're worried then you're doing it wrong
      • Spudster, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4I think that you first have to get to the point where a girl is willing to have sex with you before you can actually "do it wrong."
    • Obzerva, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9Spoken like a true digger.
  • plbogen, on 07/07/2008, -0/+13It appears as if the Soviets may have already had this "problem".
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space#Soviet_U ...
    • craighoxton, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3The Russians sent up all-male crews. And recordings of show tunes.
  • Munez99, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9"Props also could come into play, including a shared elastic waistband or tethers to hold one partner to a stable structure, she writes."

    hahahha!the concluding line is pretty funny..
  • TheDeepFriar, on 07/07/2008, -5/+28*anit-gravity fap fap fap fap*
    • xptoast, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9anti?
    • Obzerva, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9Don't you mean *zero-G fap fap fap*?
    • Spudster, on 07/08/2008, -0/+18Turns out your weightless jizz just clogged the oxygen filters and everyone will die... After decades of planning and tens of billions of dollars, it appears that our Mars mission came to a demise from a single act of spontaneous debasement.

    • pHr34kY, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3Are we on 4chan?
  • eleete, on 07/07/2008, -0/+31Ahhhh the coveted hundred mile high club, always outdoing one another ; )
    • WantToPlay, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2When you think about it, how would it be possible to have sex with zero gravity? That's gotta be pretty hard to do. It sure would be one hell of a workout. But I guess if the urge is there, they'll find a way.... LOL

      I've never had the exciting opportunity to join the mile high club.... Have you, John? ;)
      • Spudster, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4How could having sex in a weightless environment be a workout? You are weightless afterall, so your muscles are resisting nothing.
      • wolferz, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5@spudster: The problem isn't having to work against gravity... it's having to work at simulating the effects of gravity... such as not flying around the cabin willy nilly and not having your partner fly away from you. There are other... more complicated issues as well.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6Ok I don't know the big deal. You grab each others asses and start pumping away pulling each other towards each other with your arms while floating and bouncing all around the cabin.

        Hell...That sounds hella fun!
    • edwartica, on 07/08/2008, -1/+4Space suit is lying On control room
      Pulse rate increasing As the heat factor soars
      Take me, Make me Feel the force
      Ignore the computers We're locked on course
  • skipthefrog, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Power spawning babies in zero gravity- the last sexual frontier.
  • AnotherDiggGuy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+28A couple months ago I saw Youporn.com was giving away $1 million or $10 million to the first couple to have sex in space and film it.
  • lolobean, on 07/07/2008, -1/+24"Last month, before six months of winter darkness descended over Antarctica's McMurdo Station, the research base received a delivery of about 16,500 condoms."

    16500 condoms/178 days = 92 per day? Guess there's not a lot to do down there in the dark. Of course that's assuming they re-up every six months. Which I am sure they do.


    "In "Sex in Space," Woodmansee describes several positions that might work, ranging from the modified missionary position to seated with "interlocking Y legs." "

    Aw yeah! Scissor me space timbers!
    • Theoxenmooving, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1892 per day times ~75 people at the station, assuming a 1:1 male:female ratio (which it's not) that makes 37 couples, and that's 2 and a half times a day, at the least. Probably more.

      God, I need to get a job with Raytheon polar services....
  • chompers66, on 07/08/2008, -1/+23Not if you send a group of Digg users up...
  • Ollin, on 07/08/2008, -8/+4Interlocking Y legs? Sounds like they are scissoring to me. SCISSOR ME TIMBERS.
  • Spudster, on 07/08/2008, -3/+9What's funny is that whoever manages to do it first will actually be really famous. Like I'm not even kidding, their names will be printed in the history books.
    • wolferz, on 07/08/2008, -0/+12hmm... except then why wasn't the first couple to have sex on a plane in a history book? Or how about the first couple to have sex in a submarine?

      Nope.. it will become forgotten history is what will happen... just like much of the details of the early air travel and undersea travel has... and space travel will.
  • SinisterSaracen, on 07/08/2008, -5/+2Would that be the "Fifty Mile High Club"?
  • Flappy3, on 07/08/2008, -0/+12"Did the Earth move for you?"
  • killq, on 07/08/2008, -17/+0The only people that have had sex in space is ugly scientist libtards that most likely couldn't get laid on earth. Does it really count when people as ugly in body and mind do it? It is almost as it didn't happen because in reality most liberals don't know where to put it.
  • diggenerate, on 07/08/2008, -1/+8Let's just hope they use condoms, I know that i wouldn't want to be floating around on the ship and end up with a pearl necklace or worse.
  • bstockwell, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3you know nasa has done studies of it
  • KIERANMULLEN, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Dr. Holly Goodhead lol
  • nickymouse, on 07/08/2008, -0/+24I'm willing to help out... you know ... for science.
    • EserVerx, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Yes, I too support this on many levels.
    • fquednau, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I woudl be willing to give up any current positions for that move.
  • nolimitdomains, on 07/08/2008, -8/+2They arent talking about it much?
    Im sorry..but arent these supposed to be highly intelligent
    trained professionals who are
    playing around the universe with our taxpayer money?
    Hey, Im sorry but....YOU'RE FIRED!
    We cant date our friggin cute co-workers at 7-11
    BUT...These government welfare recipients can SCREW ON OUR DIME?
    Guess what?
    This is the day and age of "Pay as you go"
    Maybe they need to contribute towards their 1,000,000,000 mile high club adventures!

    *No More FREE RIDES and No More FREE GAS for Government Employees!~
    Plain and Simple.




    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2What in the *****?
    • Renster84, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0nmnnotmyname, You've just said what everyone else is thinking.

      seriously though. What the *****?
  • encore0518, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8well you DO need exercise in space, so this would be the most sensible way.
  • Neorio, on 07/08/2008, -8/+3SEX..... IN..... SPAAAAAAAACCCEEEEEE!
    --- In space, no one can hear you scream in orgasm!
  • ShadowFoxxx, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Right, and I have 2.3 million in my back pocket. But anyway...sex in space...hm...that's an interesting way to conceive your first child. What would you name the child?
  • MaverickSmooth, on 07/08/2008, -4/+3What the ***** are you talking about?
  • bobbknight, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Oh hell, you know old Mike rubbed one out one the dark side of the moon!
  • joshblufs, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3If astronauts have to exercise to keep their muscles from atrophying in space What would that mean for a fetus/infant? seems like conceiving a child in space might not be a problem but if they're on a 3 years mission to mars and there is a pregnancy 3 months in.... hope the condom/pill works.
  • cillwote, on 07/08/2008, -0/+13that husband and wife astronaut team came to my high school and one of my friends (wish it was me) asked them if they had sex in space and they didn't answer the question. i think we all know what that means... bon chick-a-wowow !
  • lvchk2, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2I'm just digging this for the topic being sex in space!
  • atomicashley, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Just remember to slurp up all your floating globs, thx.
  • cerealjynx, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Awesome. Now they should just do the entire process in space, fertilization, incubation and birth. Maybe we'll get some amazing GIANT SPACE BABIES like what happens to vegetables...
  • kushin, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3there is already so much crap up there in space, the last thing we want to see are used condoms.
  • loveandrockets, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5NASA already sent a married couple on the Shuttle at the same time. You're telling me they didn't have sex? Come on. I think it's a coverup by NASA. Seriously. They couldn't spend an hour on the whole mission to get busy? And become the first couple to do so?
  • deflective, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2here i was wondering what the hell had happened to the comic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Better_or_For_Wor ...
  • nmnnotmyname, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4How about masturbation? I mean if they aren't having sex with eachother, then they're masturbating...
  • edwartica, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Anyone else thinking about how in Y: the last man, that astronaut woman made it with BOTH men on the ISS? And then ended up getting pregnant and giving birth to the Russian Czar?
  • craighoxton, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3"I think he's attempting re-entry" - Q, Moonraker (1979)
  • dildoolielly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Watch out or the nutbars will criminalize that too and the next thing you know, we will be number one in imprisoning people in space.
  • M724, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2This reminds me of the debates in the early days of the Internet when people thought "sex on the Internet" was never going to happen. And it technically didn't. Text-based sex (supported by cameras) doesn't count.
  • ShadowMerchant, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Women astronauts: http://www.astronautix.com/articles/womspace.htm

    Some (Hire, Collins, Resnik) are hittable. Well, Resnik is dead, but she definitely WAS hittable.
  • amoirae, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1All these theoretical questions were already answered in Barbarella.
  • charlietuna, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1After which we will have space porn and zero G money shots...
  • Equinox2012, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2They should have combined this with the "Would you have sex with a robot" story. You would have had a resounding YES.
  • glinsvad, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Almost 500 diggs and not a single spaceballs reference!?
  • zosoIV, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Anyone here read The Rise of Endymion?
  • bunji, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1That headline made me picture a VERY strange comic strip for a second.
  • caponumen, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1That hot blond took a load from me on that last shuttle flight..........
  • whitecranberry, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1For better for worse; We don't need NASA to dictate the mechanics of something everyone is quite capable of figuring out.
  • s0rce7, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I haven't seen a porno in zero-gravity yet...
  • neatplants, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0Awesome! I've always wondered about this.
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