# Sex in zero-gravity

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 14, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-in-zero-gravity/76171 "2001-08-14T10:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-in-zero-gravity/76171/1 "2001-08-14T10:02:11Z")

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Responding to Cecil’s column [“Has anyone ever had sex in space?”](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_214.html):

There was a porn movie made in 1999 named _The Uranus Experiment: Part 2_. One of the selling points of the movie is that they filmed the “1st Gangbang in Outer Space”

From [this article](http://space.com/sciencefiction/movies/uranus_experiment_000516.html):

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> Whether it wins the Nebula on Saturday or not, the series will retain a unique place in cinematic history thanks to the first installment, which boasts the first explicit sex scene shot in zero gravity conditions.
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> The scene was filmed by flying an airplane to an altitude of 11,000 feet. The plane, containing performers Sylvia Saint and Nick Lang, then went into a steep dive, creating the momentary illusion of weightlessness.
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> Insiders described the filming process as particularly messy from a technical and logistical standpoint.
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> Budgeting constraints allowed Saint and Lang, who portray astronauts, only one shot at a perfect zero-G take, leaving the actors with only a narrow 20-second window of time in which to launch themselves toward one another and complete the scene.

Although the shot wasn’t done in outer space, it’s proof that someone has had sex in zero-gravity.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-in-zero-gravity/76171/2 "2001-08-14T12:10:26Z")

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Mike Jittlov, the guy responsible for **The Wizard of Speed and Time** , shot one film in zero g the same way. I’ve seen it – he and a woman go into a “zero g” chamber in the filmed opening sequence, and the pretense of the film is that such a thing exists on earth. What theyu really did, of course, is go into a plane that followed a parabolic “vomit comet” arc. The resulting film is utterly innocent, but filled with undeniable zero-g antics. When I saw the film, Jittlov himself introduced it, and said that there were other scenes that he couldn’t show us (said with a smile). I’m sure that these were a great deal more innocent than what you refer to, but I’m sure they were at least PG, if not R.