Sex In Space
June 11th 2008 10:52
According to media reports several couples have been in contact with American based Virgin Galactic hoping to be the first to have sex in space. They quotes are alleged to come from the president of the company, as saying, "We've had a variety of people inquire about it. One got in touch about a charter flight so they could be the first to have intercourse in space and get in the Guinness Book of Records."
Noted science journalist Laura Woodmansee (author of "Sex in Space") says this curiosity is to be expected. "Many have wondered what it might be like to make love in space. The passionate couples who book flights to the very first space hotel will be more than excited to try zero-g sex."
Virgin's first planned space tourism flight is expected to take place in 2009.
Its been done before
According to unofficial sources the US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published recently.
Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is too sensitive and considered taboo for NASA and Moscow to discuss, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.
"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."
Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs then tested under real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped but are considered so sensitive that even NASA was only given a censored version."
Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.
Mr Kohler says: "One of the principal findings was that the classic missionary position, which is so easy on earth with the aid of gravity, is simply not possible in space."
Personally Sex in space would be frustrating added with the amount of energy expended under limited resources in space would be better directed to using other methods
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