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I didn’t make this up–I’m not that good. NASA tested 20 sex positions through computer simulation to arrive at the ten best (thanks, Hal!). Then two guinea pigs tested them in zero gravity conditions. Hmm, makes you wonder if the female said, “Ooh, you dirty rat!”
The money quote in the U.K.’s The Guardian:
“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.”
The article is a little dry (wait, does lube work in space?) but it poses some interesting questions: How does gravity affect sex? If you can’t thrust how do you deliver the payload? After a while, will lovers think they’re drifting apart?
Here’s my favorite part of the article. It’s referring to the guinea pigs:
“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.”
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