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Space. The final frontier. And a completely new environment for indulging in humanity's favorite pastime: [[Recycled in Space|sex!]]
 
Many writers have turned their imagination to the subject of what sex would be like in zero gravity. The general consensus seems to be that it would be like a [[Two -Person Pool Party]] without the water (examples involving ''more'' than two people are hard to come by, as no one enjoys dealing with the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|three-body problem]]).
 
Unfortunately very hard to pull off, due to the lack of gravity having weird effects on the body, including (ahem) blood pressure. Zero-G is more accurately called "free-fall" because one is literally falling. Zero-G sex is sex while perpetually falling. The microgravity environment would also mean that the couple would be a slave to Newtonian physics, meaning that any... vigorous movement is going to cause both to careen wildly around their spaceship, resulting in multiple possible injuries.
 
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.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[XX XenophileXXXenophile]]'' story "Watch This Space," the characters figure that it'll be about twelve hours before their escape bubble is picked up, and they decide to occupy the time with a marathon session of zero-g lesbian lovemaking. One of them comments that in freefall she prefers to do it with another woman because there's less thrusting and bouncing than there is with a man.
* ''[[Y the Last Man|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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== 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? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', in which Tony Slattery had to guess who he was - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBNyAFllyo the first man to make love in space] - by the questions Stephen Frost, Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles asked him. In case you even needed to be told, there were [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] galore.
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|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.
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