Things I've learned from listening to podcasts 2.
Not everything you learn from listening to podcasts is happy. There is some very sad news, too.
Some of you may already know that it is now that it’s becoming possible for ordinary people (well, not ordinary people, but very rich non-astronauts) to take trips into outer space. For some ridiculous sum, about $250,000 if memory serves, rich folks can spend short periods of time in orbit. Now, I know what you’re all thinking: when will it be affordable enough for me to go? And you’re all thinking that for the same reason: you want to have sex in outer space. Because, of course, just about every person (or every male person, anyway) who thinks of traveling into outer space automatically thinks about zero-gravity sex (and I suspect that female persons who deny thinking about it are lying).
Well, I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but the absence of gravity has several negative effects. Most are manageable or could even be seen as positives, such as the fact that you sweat more in zero gravity which, of course, some folks (including me) like, but which would tend to make your partner rather slippery. This can exacerbate another problem, since for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and there's no gravity to help you out, so it'll be difficult for you and your partner to remain...connected. In order for this to work you would probably have to be tethered to each other, and possibly also to the wall or something. Again, there are whole sets of fantasies attached to things like that, so, you know, bonus.
However, zero gravity also the effect of dramatically lowering the blood pressure, which…well, which can affect…the ability to perform. In certain ways. Shall we say. Not to put too fine a point on it.
NO ERECTIONS IN SPACE. There, I said it.
So, I'm not going.