About half a century ago, humankind — inspired as much by Cold War geopolitics as the desire to go where no one has gone before — set its sights on that most distant horizon: space, the final frontier.
About fifty years in, that most distant horizon seems as far away as ever. Sure, we put satellites in orbit and sent men to the moon. But as NASA faces budget cuts and private corporations jockey for position in what’s now called the “space industry,” the “Jetsons”-ish hope of living extraterrestrially looks like a 1960s daydream.
But today, an enterprising company has jump-started what remains of the space race in a most unusual fashion.
PornHub, which claims to be the world’s biggest pornography site, is crowdfunding for a sex tape filmed in zero gravity.
“Pornhub is teaming up with top ranking adult studio Digital Playground in joining the ranks of Armstrong and Gagarin by pioneering a one of a kind mission to defy gravity, make history, and push the boundaries of intergalactic ‘Sexploration’ by filming the first ever sextape in space,” the site’s $3.4 million appeal reads. “In doing so, we will not only be changing the face of the adult industry, we will also be chronicling how a core component of human life operates while in orbit.”
No, it’s not a joke.
“This is actually 100% real,” Corey Price, one of Pornhub’s vice presidents, wrote to The Washington Post in an e-mail.
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As fans of films such as “Flesh Gordon” (1974) and “Sex Trek” (1990) already know, filmmakers have long been interested in exploring the erotic possibilities of the outer limits. But in proposing to send real people — or, at least, porn stars — into orbit to engage in a biological activity researchers might actually need to know more about, PornHub has fused innovation and titillation.
“I’ve had sex pretty much everywhere and everyway you can imagine,” proposed sexplorer Johnny Sins said in PornHub’s IndieGogo video. “I’ve had sex on almost every different continent with all kinds of different women. Don’t get me wrong: I love what I do and who I do, but this is a really unique opportunity to break ground in the adult industry.”
Sins added: “I’m excited to be part of the PornHub space program for this exact reason: We’re going to make porn — in space.”
Sins’s would-be co-pilot was equally enthused.
“Who else can say that they were the first porn stars to work in space?” Eva Lovia said. “This is an amazing opportunity to make history and to work two dream jobs at once: porn star and astronaut.”
While Lovia and, ahem, Sins might make unlikely pioneers, talk of Martian colonies and extraterrestrial emigration must include an understanding of what doing the nasty is like off of planet Earth. If humankind must flee Earth because of a resource crisis or asteroid impact, sex will be required for the species to survive. (Absent in vitro fertilization or other sex-free “Interstellar”-style scenarios, of course.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...r-sex-tape-filmed-in-space/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3
About fifty years in, that most distant horizon seems as far away as ever. Sure, we put satellites in orbit and sent men to the moon. But as NASA faces budget cuts and private corporations jockey for position in what’s now called the “space industry,” the “Jetsons”-ish hope of living extraterrestrially looks like a 1960s daydream.
But today, an enterprising company has jump-started what remains of the space race in a most unusual fashion.
PornHub, which claims to be the world’s biggest pornography site, is crowdfunding for a sex tape filmed in zero gravity.
“Pornhub is teaming up with top ranking adult studio Digital Playground in joining the ranks of Armstrong and Gagarin by pioneering a one of a kind mission to defy gravity, make history, and push the boundaries of intergalactic ‘Sexploration’ by filming the first ever sextape in space,” the site’s $3.4 million appeal reads. “In doing so, we will not only be changing the face of the adult industry, we will also be chronicling how a core component of human life operates while in orbit.”
No, it’s not a joke.
“This is actually 100% real,” Corey Price, one of Pornhub’s vice presidents, wrote to The Washington Post in an e-mail.
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As fans of films such as “Flesh Gordon” (1974) and “Sex Trek” (1990) already know, filmmakers have long been interested in exploring the erotic possibilities of the outer limits. But in proposing to send real people — or, at least, porn stars — into orbit to engage in a biological activity researchers might actually need to know more about, PornHub has fused innovation and titillation.
“I’ve had sex pretty much everywhere and everyway you can imagine,” proposed sexplorer Johnny Sins said in PornHub’s IndieGogo video. “I’ve had sex on almost every different continent with all kinds of different women. Don’t get me wrong: I love what I do and who I do, but this is a really unique opportunity to break ground in the adult industry.”
Sins added: “I’m excited to be part of the PornHub space program for this exact reason: We’re going to make porn — in space.”
Sins’s would-be co-pilot was equally enthused.
“Who else can say that they were the first porn stars to work in space?” Eva Lovia said. “This is an amazing opportunity to make history and to work two dream jobs at once: porn star and astronaut.”
While Lovia and, ahem, Sins might make unlikely pioneers, talk of Martian colonies and extraterrestrial emigration must include an understanding of what doing the nasty is like off of planet Earth. If humankind must flee Earth because of a resource crisis or asteroid impact, sex will be required for the species to survive. (Absent in vitro fertilization or other sex-free “Interstellar”-style scenarios, of course.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...r-sex-tape-filmed-in-space/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3
