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" 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: 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 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.
Examples
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Comic Books
- In the XXXenophile 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 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.
- Referenced in Astro City: Astra Special #2. Astra's boyfriend tries to persuade her to indulge, leading to this exchange:
Matt: But hey - If they can do localized anti-gravity... I don't know, maybe these guys don't care, living in a cosmic place like this. But I'm from Earth, I'm a guy. Seems to me no-gravity would be pretty interesting for, y'know...
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 Angel do the 'flying without a plane' version when Buffy develops (more) superpowers during the "Twilight" arc of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer 'Season 8' comics.
- Appears in the MILFS on Mars pin-up collection from Eros Comix.
- 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 surprisingly well-written 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 and 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.
- Private Media Group filmed a brief scene for the space-themed pornographic film 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: The Spirits Within.
- 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 had a planned sex scene between Cassie and Capa.
Literature
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?, in which Tony Slattery had to guess who he was - 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 entendres galore.
- 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 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 NewsRadio is making love on the Space Shuttle...with a space prostitute.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More With Feeling". At the end of Tara's love song "Under Your Spell" she 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 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 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
Tabletop Games
- GURPS: Biotech mentions, for no apparent reason, that the modifications that would make someone especially useful as an engineer on a starship also open up all kinds of kinky possibilities.
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
- 21st Century Fox:
- 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 a reason.
- And now Jack and Jenny are getting in on the experience.
- Unity: Sam and Juni, sitting in an observation pod...
- Discussed in this Questionable Content strip: apparently the problem of zero-G sex isn't just physics, but killer robots as well.
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 article 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
- Futurama has a magazine called "Zero-G Juggs" that Scruffy is often seen reading that plays with the idea of this trope, even if only the name is shown. Use your imagination.
- Peter Griffin of Family Guy once masturbated in space. He later said that the inside of the shuttle began to look like a snowglobe after a while.
- Archer: Sterling Archer and Pam, whom he had stowed away specifically for the purpose in "Space Race Part 1".
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