Sex in Space
Of all the things people do, at home and in private, usually with close
friends, sex alone is subject to extraordinary interference and control
from outside forces. This is no accident - everybody is aware of its power.
Even if only for a few moments, individuals can release a power and energy
from within that renders any system of society, or regime, meaningless.
It is a liberator. Even someone in solitary confinement can indulge in it
and in their fantasies travel into any situation or possibility unfettered,
and, at the moment of orgasm itself, to be both blissfully vulnerable and
undeniably free, elsewhere, filled with energy.
The repression of sexual instincts functions to make people submissive and
inclined to irrational behaviour and thus paralyses their potential for
rebellion and leaving the planet.
Sexuality is as fundamental as it is universal. We have, therefore, found
it rather sad that our researches into sex in space have so far turned up
very little. NASA's poverty of thought is demonstrated yet again when they
push sex right to the bottom of their agenda and even deny it. This is hardly
surprising when we consider that the organisation is made up of engineers
and quasi-soldiers. It is a patriarchy like all state-agencies. 90% of all
NASA astronauts have been male, even though women make better ones (by and
large they eat less, take up less room, need less oxygen, and in zero gravity
the need for physical strength is minimal). The first female astronaut wasn't
even consulted about her menstrual cycle by the boys in the backroom - they
just packed 2 years' supply of tampons on board and scuttled off!
All of the literature we have seen on the subject repeats the dull phrases
of efficiency and repression: "astronauts face a workload busy enough
to ensure such matters are not a priority. However any future flight to
Mars, for example, would take a very long time, and the physical and psychological
well-being of the crew may drive this subject onto the agenda.", "in-flight
intercourse would help relieve astronauts of the enormous amount of stress
they undergo during missions." It is the language of dead, sexless
lives, of work making Jack a dull boy.
We have been unable to come up with any references to masturbation in outer
space and have therefore surmised that either:
a) It has occurred but has been covered up.
b) Only sexually repressed astronauts are selected.
c) Some kind of military equivalent to bromide in tea is being utilised.
However sex is such a natural, vital part of life that it will emerge regardless.....
Whilst NASA will only state that the first married couple to go on a mission
together were on the space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, their counterparts
in the former Soviet Union are not so bashful. We have discovered that Svetlana
Savicka, a Russian cosmonaut, fucked freely in Jaljut 7 as far back as June
1982. Whilst we applaud this, we are saddened by her bosses' response which
was just to initiate a plan to conceive the first child in outer space,
as if sex was merely for procreation.
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is eager to promote a meta approach
to sex in zero gravity. We reject utterly current space programmes and their
prioritisation of work over play, of commerce over pleasure. We believe
that sex will be even better in outer space and that it should be freely
available for all. One only has to look at any of the numerous fetish magazines
to see the immense amounts of creativity that humanity has put into its
sexuality, and we expect this to increase in outer space as new dimensions
and possibilities open up.
Elaine Lerner, an American inventor, has already patented a harness to allow
one partner to exercise control of the movements of the hips of the other
partner during a zero-g fuck. And many bondage enthusiasts are already experimenting
with gravity-defying pulleys and ropes to enhance their orgasms. We predict
that a whole range of new sexual expression will begin when we form autonomous
communities in outer space. Not just the new positions that zero gravity
will allow, but whole new ways of relating to each other. Variable gravity
will make extremes possible for S&M enthusiasts, and we expect a whole
range of new fetishists and pervs to emerge, once free from the restrictions
and guilt of planet earth. As we adapt to life without a planet, our bodies
and organs may evolve into something else entirely, either through new forms
of body modification, or just from living in new environments. The possibilities
are limitless.
The AAA is eagerly awaiting the chance to take their bodies to new peaks
of pleasure in the depths of space.
Down with restriction! Playtime forever!
Luther Blissett
Raido AAA
