''6'' in Space..................................
A glimpse into the future of the Space Hilton:
The room spins deliriously around you. Floating nearby, beside, above and below you, a room full of warm, naked people bumping, thrashing and whirling delightfully in mid-air. Like a sophomore’s wet dream, you are adrift in a delicious sea of friendly faces, hands, breasts and legs. Through the tumbling mass of smooth flesh you catch glimpses of a familiar blue-white orb outside the window of your room.
It is Earth.
In spacecraft like the shuttle, astronauts seeking a little fun must reckon with increased oxygen usage and lack of privacy. Finding footholds will probably be no problem in such cramped quarters, and sleeping bags are adequate for the purpose as any outdoorsman will attest. To date the largest space station occupied by human beings has been the American Skylab, a comfortable but sterile cylindrical habitat 48 feet long and 22 feet in diameter, with the volume of a three-bedroom house. In the decades to come larger stations, and later self-contained cities in space, may be constructed and inhabited by thousands of colonists.
Eventually tourism will grow and a hotelier cooperative will finance the Space Hilton, where guests from Earth can come for sightseeing, medical recuperation, and to sample the many delights of life in zero-gravity like for instance a romatic liason.
But how?
The best place to make it in zero-gravity-space is in space ..... that is, in mid-air far from any surface. Once brought to a stop hanging in the middle of the room, which we shall call the Center Position, a couple cannot reach a wall so long as they stay together. No matter how they gyrate, bump or bounce, once their mutual center of gravity is fixed it will stay put. Even if they are drifting very slowly because of air drafts they should be okay – Skylab science pilot Edward Gibson once waited 20 minutes to drift to a new handhold after inadvertently losing his grip on an opposing wall.
So what’s the best way to achieve Center Position? In the impact method the partners go to opposite walls and gently push off toward mid-room. When they meet halfway they grab each other, neutralizing their opposite momenta and halting at Center Position. This will take some practice to get right, as the lighter member of the couple must propel her or himself slightly faster and aim must be reasonably accurate. Of course, except for the most practiced experts, the couple will always wind up with some residual rotation. While on Earth this would quickly disturb the vestibular organs of balance in the inner ear, causing dizziness and nausea, in space people are virtually immune to rapid rotational sickness. Particularly adventurous couples may wish to enhance the rotation rate by grabbing hold as they pass each other and swinging around. The rate of rotation of each person can then be controlled independently by extending (to slow) or retracting (to speed up) the arms and legs.
A major problem is the lack of convection currents in zero-gravity. Flames in Skylab’s furnace smothered themselves in their own smoke, and during vigorous bicycle exercise by the astronauts body heat didn’t rise but lingered suffocatingly around the men. During lovemaking body-warmed moistened air will tend to hang close to the skin. This is something like the warm blanket of water that forms around you in a swimming pool when you don’t move around too much. So sex in space may be a much hotter, wetter affair than on Earth, where gravity helps drain liquids from bodies at work and sex generally takes place on soft, absorbent surfaces. Couples coupling in mid-room will spew particles of various fluids into the air which will stick to walls, viewports, TV screens, telephones, and even the participants themselves – the space equivalent of steaming up the windows.
excerpts taken from an article by Robert A. Freitas Jr. called Sex in Space
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