# Has anyone got it on in the space station yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 22, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327 "2009-05-22T19:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327/21 "2009-05-24T07:41:17Z")
About 20 years ago G. Harry Stine wrote an article for Analog magazine called _The Three Dolphin Club_ (I think, it has been 20 years). In it he stated his sources in NASA told him that experiments have been conducted. He did have sufficient ties to the space community to be plausible. He did not name names and he is dead so we can’t ask him. It is possible that he was joking. ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327/22 "2009-05-24T08:52:44Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Part of the mission of the ISS is to determine if humans can survive a mission to Mars. All plans I’ve read would take more than a year. If you were a married astronaut and got the only chance of your life to go to Mars, but you knew there was a snowball’s chance in hell to have sex with another person on that mission, would that deter you? Anyone else want to chime in on that? > [@gaffa](#): > > Did I say “die”? No you said “basic human need” - I took that to mean what you’d need to survive for long periods of time. > [@gaffa](#): > > See the Straight Dope column answer cited. A NASA flight surgeon asked that the men on on SkyLab masturbate to maintain their prostate health. As female astronauts don’t have a prostate, prostate health doesn’t concern them. The original question wasn’t about masturbation, and you know it. Neither was I referring to masturbation. We were talking about sex between two people. You’re switching key terms in the middle of the discussion. > [@gaffa](#): > > Sex, like it or not, is cheap entertainment and reasonably good exercise. My problem with your previous post wasn’t the question of whether sex is “likeable” or “entertainment” but rather your statement that it was a “basic human need”. I didn’t see the word “entertainment” in there. > [@gaffa](#): > > Insisting that human beings avoid a basic human pleasure is hardly practical, and most definitely prudish. Please don’t put words into my mouth and then make it personal. You said “basic human need” not “basic human pleasure” and that was the issue I had. Now you’re changing terms, hoping people won’t notice. As for your olympics example, it’s a logical fallacy to try to use that to wiggle out of your word choice - I stick to my original view on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327/23 "2009-05-24T15:35:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > In orbit, huh? Talk about “around the world.” Or joining the Almost-Two-Hundred-Mile-High Club. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327/24 "2009-05-24T16:27:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I suspect you’re right. That’s the kind of juicy secret that just can’t be kept over the years. Psht, maybe it’s just noone’s told Mr. Blabbermouth Chiao. Meanwhile, all the popular astronauts are smoking pot and necking behind the bleachers. But as for people not rubbing off for months on the ISS… impossible. Heck, if you don’t do it that long, you’ll just start doing it in your sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-it-on-in-the-space-station-yet/497327.md?page=1)