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{{trope|wppage=Sex in space}}
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{{quote|"''Making love in a zero-g environment
''May not produce the satisfaction we project.
''The proposed erotic possibilities
''Deny Newton's Laws of Motion
''And how they will affect
''Our romantic inclinations...
''In space stations''"
Space. The final frontier. And a completely new environment for indulging in humanity's favorite pastime: [[Recycled in Space|sex!]]
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As of early 2012, this has not been attempted in any actual spacecraft, despite the attempt of a porn studio to hire Spaceship One for the purpose. Virgin Galactic declined the offer, nominally on the grounds that accepting would make their company name exceedingly silly.
{{noreallife|Real Life is not speculative fiction. Also, once it becomes possible in the real world, All The Tropes is not a gossip site.}}
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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "Watch This Space
* ''[[
* Happens to Cherry Poptart multiple times in the story "Space Cookie" in ''[[Cherry Comics]]''.
* Referenced in ''[[Astro City]]: Astra Special'' #2. Astra's boyfriend tries to persuade her to indulge, leading to this exchange:
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'''Astra:''' Sex? They live on planets here, Matt. They do have gravity. Trust me, you're not the first to think of it. They actually have rooms for that, up near the top, where the effect is the strongest. But it's messy, it's awkward, you smack into the walls a lot, and then you have to clean up and it's kinda gross. }}
* Buffy and {{spoiler|[[
* Appears in the ''MILFS on Mars'' pin-up collection from Eros Comix.
* Starfire and Captain Comet indulge in ''[[REBELS]]'' #18.
* Happens in ''[[
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* A decidedly not worksafe, but [[Better Than It Sounds|surprisingly well-written]] ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' fanfic,
▲* Happens in ''[[Ethereum Gladiator (Fanfic)|Ethereum Gladiator]]'', given there's no gravity outside the Nethercity's ecodomes.
▲* A decidedly not worksafe, but [[Better Than It Sounds|surprisingly well-written]] [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]] fanfic, "Nothing Like The Sun". Notable for being one of the few DS9 fics to center around the marriage of Miles and Keiko O'Brien.
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (
* ''[[Dracula 2000]]''. Although this used vampiric levitation instead of zero g space.
* Also done in ''[[Underworld Rise of the Lycans]]'', where a vampire and a lycan have gravity-defying sex while hanging off the edge of a cliff.
* The sci-fi horror film ''Supernova'' (2000) featured sex between several of the characters in zero-gravity areas of the Medical Ship.
* The comedy ''Moving Violations'' suggests the main characters, played by actors John Murray and [[Jennifer Tilly]], have an intimate encounter in a weightlessness simulator.
* Private Media Group filmed a brief scene for the space-themed pornographic film ''[[Just for Pun|The Uranus Experiment]]'' in a Russian aircraft flying a parabolic track (similar to NASA's Vomit Comet). ''The Uranus Experiment'' features around 20 seconds of actors Sylvia Saint and Nick Lang (who portray astronauts living on a space station) having sex in freefall. The scene was controversially nominated for a Nebula Award (as a protest against the Nebula Awards' Best Screenplay category), but did not win.
* Aki and Gray in ''[[Final Fantasy:
* In ''[[Thank You for Smoking]]'', there are plans to incorporate this trope into a movie. Along with cigarettes, of course.
* In ''[[Cube]] 2: Hypercube'', two characters, feeling that their deaths are inevitable, have sex in the center of one of the cube rooms that has zero gravity (and possibly accelerated time) until they apparently die of dehydration and eventually desiccate. One of the other characters, moving through cubes with different time flows, comes across their mummified corpses still entwined and spinning in the middle of the room.
* [[Word of God]] states that original scripts for ''[[Sunshine (
== Literature ==
* ''[[The
* Science fiction and popular science writer [[Isaac Asimov]] made conjectures in writing about what sex would be like in the weightless environment of space, in 1973 in ''Sex in a Spaceship''. He anticipated some of the benefits of engaging in sex in an environment of microgravity. He also mentions 1/6-gee sex in the final chapter of ''The Gods Themselves'', which takes place on the moon.
* In Ben Bova's novel ''Kinsman'' the astronaut characters consider founding the Zero Gee Club; like the Mile High Club, but higher.
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"Hmm. Three-dimensional." }}
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Falling Free]]'':
** Inverted when a girl specifically engineered for free fall (with a second pair of arms instead of legs) wonders how 'downsiders' can have sex without bouncing apart, since they have no lower hands to grip their lovers with. Her downsider lover explains that gravity has its uses. She also points out that condoms sure beat chasing bodily fluids around the compartment with a hand-vac.
** At another point in the series, Miles acquires a zero-g "bed," and decides to give it a whirl, musing on the rumors of the fantastic nature of sex in zero-g. He crawls out a few minutes later after deciding that the bed smells like "at least three" people had recently been investigating those same rumors.
* Used in at least one [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel (''[[Time Enough for Love]]''?).{{verify}}
* Eric Idle in ''The Road To Mars'' described it as "like having sex ''inside'' a water bed."
* In contrast to ''QI'', the novel ''Red Lightning'' has a scene discussing the ''advantages'' of sex in zero gravity.
* The ''[[
* [[Spider Robinson]] goes into heaps of detail in his ''[[Stardancer]]'' trilogy, including pointing out that a couple making love ''unrestrained'' in zero gravity will inevitably end up bumping gently against the air vent
* In the [[Alan Dean Foster]] novelisation of ''[[Alien (
* Newt Gingrich's books talk about the possibilities of having your wedding night in space. [[Al Franken]], in ''[[Rush Limbaugh]] is a Big Fat Idiot'', made fun of this, pointing out that it would probably be quite awkward in reality.
* Something similar involving buoyancy instead of gravity occurs in Alida Van Gores '' Mermaid's Song'': [[Our Mermaids Are Different|mermaid]] sex requires either a heavily padded cave or lots of searoom given the unavoidable propulsive effects of the undulations involved.
* In one of ''[[The Witcher]]'' novels Geralt reminisces some [http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Yennefer Yennefer]'s "experiments", including use of a levitation spell on them both.
* [[Vernor Vinge]] mentions the problem of obtaining leverage during zero-g sex in ''[[
* In ''[[The Sparrow]]'' by Mary Doria Russell, Anne and George have one suggestion: duck tape.
* The [[Red Mars Trilogy]] mentions that this happens frequently on the initial voyage to Mars. One of the Russian characters also apparent experimented with many forms of zero-G sex while on ''Novy Mir''.
* In ''[[Known Space]]'', zero-g sex is far from uncommon, due to zero-g "sleep fields" which work anywhere. At least one character thinks the sleep field is the greatest invention since sliced bread... But prefers to sleep on a traditional mattress.
* In [[Stephen Baxter]]'s ''[[
* In [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s ''[[The
* Inevitable on Gemworld in the ''[[Star Trek: Gemworld]]'' duology.
* Mentioned in ''[[Naked Lunch]]''.
* In the sci-fi book ''Fallen Angels'', one of the spacemen (who have lived most of their lives in orbit, and so have severe issues with living in gravity again) wonders how people make love in G. His observation? "They probably don't need Velcro."
* ''[[Dread Empires Fall]]'' has "recreation tubes" for the inhabitants of their starships. They work for ''up to two'' occupants and presumably have versions for all of the species that could be crewing their ships.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* This subject came up on ''[[QI]]''. Fry pointed out three drawbacks to this: your you-know-what will be smaller, you have problems maintaining contact and there's the danger of stuff drifting around the cabin and getting into things. Not that this deterred Bill Bailey and Alan Davies from vividly describing the possibilities of space porn in front of an embarrassed Stephen Fry.
* This came up on a particularly good game of ''Press Conference'' on the British version of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* ''[[
* The idea was floated (if you'll pardon the pun) in ''Salvage'', the pilot for the TV series ''[[Salvage 1]]''. However, being a PG sort of show, nothing comes of it.
* The ''[[Red Shoe Diaries]]'' episode "Weightless".
* ''[[Defying Gravity]]'': Done with the Cranes in the pilot.
* This topic was the focus of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121024214523/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/38008691 final story] on the night of June 29, 2010's ''[[Countdown
* Dave's sexual fantasy on ''[[News Radio]]'' is making love on the Space Shuttle...with a space prostitute.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Musical Episode|"Once More With Feeling"]]. At the end of Tara's love song "Under Your Spell" she [[Love Floats|levitates into the air over her bed]], and it's strongly implied she's doing it so an off-camera Willow can perform cunnilingus on her.
* Steven Spielberg's ''[[Taken (TV series)|Taken]]'' miniseries did this with the mating of the two [[Half Human Hybrids]] who produced Allie.
* Not quite genuine Zero-G, but a couple on ''[[CSI New York]]'' got busted for public indecency because they were having sex while bungie-jumping. It's strongly implied that this is the female jumper's personal favorite kink.
== Magazines ==
* In ''Grlz-R-Us'', a comic strip that ran in the skin mag ''Barely Legal'', the girls (and their frat boy partners) fantasize/hallucinate that they are having sex in outer space after drinking [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|spiked punch at a fraternity party]]. The strip was later included in the collection ''The Erotic Art of Reed Waller''.
* The ''[[National Lampoon]]'' had a pictorial zero-gravity sex guide, the NASA Sutra.
== Music ==
* There are a few [[Filk Song]] treatments of the subject, perhaps the best-known example being [http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/docking-maneuvers.html "A Reconsideration Of Anatomical Docking Maneuvers In A Zero-Gravity Environment"] by Diana G. Gallagher. She makes a good point and gives another good reason (in addition to the existing ones) for restraints.
* ''[http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/MakingLoveWeighingNothingA.html Making Love Weighing Nothing At All]'' (the narrator has problems with this).
* [[Mastodon]] performs a song about [[Intercourse
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[GURPS]]
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' sourcebook on Netheril back when the goddess of Magic was Mystryl tells that her followers use Starflight ceremony - that allows the subject(s) to fly until sunrise - to "provide a very special beginning for one's marriage", among many the other things. According to [[Word of God]], they weren't the only ones - [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3684&whichpage=9#72070 at least Lliiran] (what's with their focus on "celebration" side of everything) customarily use divine magic in similar way.
== Video Games ==
* There was a (PG rated) zero-G romance scene in ''[[
* In ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** An anthropomorphic cow couple at least on their way to fulfilling this trope. Their activity was largely offstage.
** Cecil, Barb, and Beth had their honeymoon in space for [http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20041006.html a reason].
** [http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20120227.html And now] Jack and Jenny are getting in on the experience.
* ''[[Unity]]'': Sam and Juni, sitting in an observation pod...
*
== Web Original ==
* Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel in ''[[The Journal Entries]]''.
* Shot down in the ''[[Cracked.com]]'' article [http://www.cracked.com/article_18547_6-reasons-space-travel-will-always-suck.html 6 Reasons Space Travel Will Always Suck]. Sex in microgravity will fail for at leats two reasons: a man needs gravity to make enough blood pressure for an erection, and embryos need gravity to develop properly.
== Western Animation ==
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