Why Sex In Space Is Inevitable

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. And more countries than ever are now venturing into space, with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata slated to become Japan's first long-duration space flyer this year and China gearing up for its first spacewalk scheduled for October.

Things will get even more interesting with future long-duration missions envisioned for the moon, Mars and beyond.

"To say that astronauts are some superior beings who cannot have interests in any kind of sexual feelings for three years ... I just don't buy it," said Jason Kring of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Kring also pointed out the possibly negative consequences of pregnancies in a microgravity environment.

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[mamacat]

Prepare to rendezvous.
Mission accomplished.
Prepare to uncouple.

Is that a banana in your spacesuit, or are you just glad to see me?

Did you hear the one about the astronomer and the hydroponocist's daughter?

Freud probably never realised one can slip in outer space.

[mamacat]

Gives new meaning to the phrase, " I will love you to the moon and back, and all the way around the world!"

[dac253]

It already gets into her eyes and hair here on Earth, do we really want this stuff floating around the cabin?

[singlemalt]

Laura Woodmansee wrote a book called Sex in Space--talks about the potential, if it's already happened and host of other stuff. Good read.

[dgscol]

you may make love, but will it survive back on earth? there are psychological aspects.

[mamacat]

"But will you still respect me when we're in the Space Shuttle?"

[Rjmartinelli]

There are health aspects. Imagine delivering a baby in space.

[walk0nwalls]

Push, push, aaaaannnd... catch the baby. Quick somebody catch the baby it's floating away.

[NYCBear]

And how is this post anything but an obvious fact?

It's like saying "People will eat in Space!!!!"

[dgscol]

we are all star stuff

[wadenelson1]

It's not inevitable. It's history. Get a clue.

[wmholt]

Yep - already happened.

[swift_goat_pet_for_truth]

Why would anyone think it is not happening now?

Some astronauts are in the International Space Station for months at a time...

[ibsteve2u]

Puts a whole new spin on thruster, doesn't it?

[ejay579]

Does this mean they are taking applications for the "10,000 Mile High" Club?

[cindyw]

And they're riding in a huge phallic symbol.