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Posted on Jul 25, 2006
Sex in Space
From Vanna Bonta via MSNBC

Experts tell MSNBC that “new devices and data would be needed to hit the zero-G-spot.” An author who has written about the topic says space sex would be “the killer app of space tourism, because every couple…is going to want to try this.”


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LAS VEGAS - Having sex in the weightlessness of outer space is the stuff of urban legends and romantic fantasy ? but experts say that there would be definite downsides as well.

Spacesickness, for instance. And the difficulty of choreographing intimacy. And the potential for sweat and other bodily fluids to, um, get in the way.

“The fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality,” NASA physician Jim Logan said here Sunday at the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2006 conference. Nevertheless, Logan and others say the study of sex and other biological basics in outer space will be crucial to humanity’s long-term push into the final frontier.

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By john meyer, July 1, 2007 at 5:10 am Link to this comment
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Sex isn’t just about weird thrills you dolt. It’s about procreating the human race and if people don’t start doing it off the planet the species is eventually doomed. The illustration of that 2Suit designed by Vanna Bonta that MSNBC was smart enough to broadcast from that conference looks like a great way to watch a movie or read together in z-g too. I hope people will get the idea. Moon settlements, orbit hotels, whatever.

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By Laura Woodmansee, August 1, 2006 at 12:11 pm Link to this comment
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Hi! My new book, “Sex in Space,” is about to hit the bookstores. See http://www.laurawoodmansee.com for details. Enjoy!
- Laura Woodmansee

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By C Quil, July 26, 2006 at 10:17 am Link to this comment
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What is the matter with these people’s sex lives if they have to get their thrills by mating in weird places? If they can’t manage to “fly without wings”, as Boccacio put it, on earth, they ain’t got a hope in hell in space.

It would make a hilarious video though.

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