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{{trope|wppage=Sex in space}}
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{{quote|"''Making love in a zero-g environment
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''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
* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' mentions this in an early issue of the series. Later, it becomes a major plot point.
* Happens to Cherry Poptart multiple times in the story "Space Cookie" in ''[[Cherry Comics]]''.
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* Starfire and Captain Comet indulge in ''[[REBELS]]'' #18.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* Happens in ''[[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,
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] and [[Punny Name|Holly Goodhead]] in ''[[Moonraker]]'', making Bond both a member of the [[Mile-High Club]] and the 100 Mile High Club.
* ''[[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.
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* 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 (film)|Sunshine]]'' had a planned sex scene between Cassie and Capa.
== Literature ==
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** 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 ''[[BattleTech]]'' novel "The Price Of Glory" finished with the afterglow of such a scene, with the couple in question "turning gently".
* [[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 (franchise)|Alien]]'', Parker tells Brett about an inexperienced visitor to a zero-G brothel who started spinning during the 'act', and then started throwing up. In zero-G.
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[Manifold Time]]'', it's mentioned that one spaceflight saw frequent zero-g orgies because the astronauts had no better way to pass their time.
* 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?
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' references it while making fun of regulation numbers: "No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero gravity". And again: "Hey, Pop-up Kama Sutra! Zero-gravity version, that's mine!".
* 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 with Keith Olbermann]]''. He struggled (without success) to keep a straight face. They showed clips of a History Channel documentary about the subject in which two speculative experts postulated that "One thing everyone does agree upon is that one or more of the mating partners needs to be restrained."
* 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 with You]] in space. The title? ''Stargasm.''
== 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 ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', when the heroes go into outer space because the Tower of Salvation goes extremely high up, an optional cutscene has (who else?) Zelos going on about this, and (who else?) Lloyd completely missing the point (Zelos didn't actually mention sex, which is probably why Lloyd didn't get it; Also because he's an idiot).
== Web Comics ==
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** 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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