Zero gravity porn gets $10,000 in first day of crowdfunding - videos

12 June 2015 - 13:24 By Times LIVE
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It may be hard to pull off, but a porn website, in partnership with a porn studio, has visions of filming the first ever sex tape in space.

Pornhub and Digital Playground have joined forces to set up a Indiegogo campaign, with the hopes of raising $3.4 million (R42.3 million) to " defy gravity, make history, and push the boundaries of intergalactic "Sexploration" by filming the first ever sextape in space".

So far they have managed to raise over $10,000 in the campaign's first day.

Pornhub, which gets 16 billion visits a year, says it is mounting the mission for "the love of science and sex", and it is offering a tiered reward system for funders.

People who give large amounts will win the right to map out entire scenes, including the sexual positions and script.

Top funders - at "Uranus" level - will get a used space suit.

Porn actors Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins have been lined up to star in Sexplorations, and UK's The Independent newspaper said they would receive "six months of rigorous training" prior to launch.

"There are many elements about life in space that need careful consideration and research - especially sex," the site said.

"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."

The film might answer another question: In space, can your lover hear you scream?

Newton's third law of motion could drive space-bonkers mad - if the couple are not attached to anything else, floating in free-fall, their movements will counter each other. Every action each makes will be offset by an equal - but oppositely directed - reaction by the partner.

In other words, make sure there's a headboard to hang on to.

The Daily Mail quoted Paul Root Wolpe, a senior bioethicist at Nasa, who said the logistical difficulty of body-to-body docking would probably put astronauts off sex.

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