Sex is not allowed in space.
At least according to NASA.
The media was interested in whether the first couple to have sex in space would be married. There was a minor scandal for the space agency after the event. The agency has denied that sex has ever occurred in space.
Even before the couple launched on their mission, 277 astronauts had already flown into space, and they could have been having sex with each other up there.
Why not? If a man and a woman could have sex in space, why not two men or two women, or any other combination of horny astronauts?
It makes sense that there have been articles, TV shows, and movies depicting space sex. It is a fascinating and steamy topic, and a key expression of the universal experience of pleasure. With the rise of the 21st century space race and conversations about colonizing Mars and the Moon being taken more seriously, the topic of extraterrestrial reproduction is more relevant than ever.
Gay space sex is still a huge blindspot.
If we treat straight space sex as an inevitability, we need to treat queer space sex the same way. It is ridiculous that we haven't done it already. The first multi-crewed spaceship was launched by the Soviet Union in 1964. There is no reason those guys couldn't have been in the sky.
The mechanics are likely to be trivial. Dr. Alex Layendecker, a US Air Force pilot and researcher into human sexuality and reproduction in off- Earth environments, suggests that gay space sex might be easier to accomplish than hetereosexual intercourse.
Layendecker explained to Futurism that it would be easier for a homosexual couple to have similar mass sizes. If you have two males that are roughly the same size and weight, they will have the same centers of gravity, so it will be easier for them to interact.
The technique would play a role here too. spooning or doggy-style would be easier to achieve than missionary position because it is easier for one to hold onto the other.
Space sex is perfect for those who like to engage in sexual activity with other people. Since there is no leverage in a microgravity environment, one or both partners would likely need to be strapped in or secured in some way; otherwise they would run the risk of awkwardly floating away mid-thrust. NASA has a solution to that.
According to Layendecker, astronauts use duct tape to secure someone on the floor. You can use holsters or something similar to anchor at least one partner, and then the other one can too.
Are you a fan of the show? You could be a perfect candidate for gay space sex.
Even though sex in space is gay or straight, there is still little being done to research and develop systems for sex in space. The fact that NASA is politically bound has a lot to do with this. He said that many lawmakers who approve the agency's budget are hesitant about putting resources towards space sex research because of conservative elements tied to their funding.
The agency has a fraught relationship with the LGBT community. NASA has had a hostile approach to queer employees.
The US Air Force released the Aeromedical Evaluation for Space Pilots in 1963, just a few years after NASA was founded, to give recruits the physical and mental benchmarks they would need to become astronauts. The heterosexuality scale used to measure prospective astronauts' sexual orientation was questionable at best.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, got through despite the agency trying to remove gay astronauts. She didn't come out as a lesbian until her death in 2012 but she did come out as a lesbian in her obituary.
Sally didn't feel comfortable coming out as who she was because she knew the conservative nature of that institution that she was a part of. Both NASA and the federal government were very conservative.
Evans is a space historian and an advocate for the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community. NASA's culture has remained the same. Since Ride, only two other astronauts have come out of the closet.
They were all lesbians. There has never been a male Astronaut who has come out of the closet. There is yet to be a publicly non-binary or trans astronauts.
More astronauts will likely hide their queer identities, and will continue to do so. That is not speculation, but a statistical certainty.
The 10 percent of Americans who are gay is a disputed figure. Of the 574 people who have gone into space, about 57 were probably gay. If you use the most recent Gallup poll conducted in 2020 you can see that about 32% of Americans wouldn't have been straight if they identified as LGBT.
Are we to believe that only three astronauts in the history of international space travel have been queer? It is almost impossible.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, despite the fact that little is being done to research and develop systems for sex in space regardless of orientation. Layendecker and Evans are hopeful that private entities like Blue Origin will be more willing to invest in space sex research than the public ones.
When that happens, we will hopefully see space sex innovations that are accessible to all astronauts. It is more than a logistical problem that we will have to contend with if we want to colonize the galaxy. Pleasure is a fundamental part of being a human. Even after they leave the planet, anyone who wants to should be able to get off.
Evans said that this is not just about populating beyond the Earth. Sex is one of the things that you need to have outlets for.
Scientists have discovered a creature that never has sex.
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