Internet porn websites are certainly about pornographic materials.
They show people engaging in various sex acts, in whatever way and method imaginable. Consensual or non-consensual, professional to amateurs, straightforward hardcore to unsimulated sexual intercourse, and more, internet porn websites have them all.
To suit practically everyone's taste and fetishes, some websites can go further than the other, with some that may not be suitable for the faint hearted.
Pornhub is one of the largest website for adult materials the internet has ever seen. While it's just like others, in which its content is pornographic in nature, the people at MindGeek, the company that owns Pornhub and some other popular internet porn platforms, provides more than porn content.
Sometimes, it creates initiatives unlike its peers.
For example, it bans a content creator to help stop online sex trafficking. It had also provided scholarship, among others.
This time, it started a crowdfunding effort, to see, and monetize sex in space.
At this time, nobody knows for sure how coitus is in zero gravity.
While astronauts have indeed experimented with artificially inseminations, all of which were experimented on animals, not humans. The few experiments that have been done on sex in space were focused on animals, not humans.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit, to answer questions about things in space, ranging from questions like "What does space smell like?" However, nobody asked Hadfield about sex in space, and whether coitus can be done in zero gravity.
Even users on Reddit were a bit too shy to ask that kind of question to a respectable Canadian astronaut.
And while a couple, a husband and wife, have actually flew to space as astronauts, there’s nothing documented on their intimate relationships.
NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, insists that no human being has ever had sex in space, and that American astronauts often avoid the subject.
But Pornhub thinks differently.
"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. 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," Pornhub said.
Here, the adult entertainment website is attempting to crowdfund a trip beyond Earth's atmosphere for two people to star in a pornographic film.
Pornhub wants these two porn stars, to be the world's first documented 'sextronauts' who go to space for the sole purpose of copulation.
To do this, Pornhub has created a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, to strap the likes of Johnny Sins and Eva Lovia inside rocket, in order to launch them into space, and let them do their thing.
The campaign's goal was to raise $3.4 million in 60 days, and to use the money to train two performers and a six-person crew.
"Our work is definitely cut out for us," PornHub said.
"We need to train and outfit our crew, consult with a dedicated team of specialists, purchase custom modified film equipment, and completely fund the use of the shuttle that'll take us on our journey to space."
The company claimed to be in talks with a number of private spaceflight companies, with plans to have at least one pornographic film made by 2016.
Then, in 2016, it is said that porn actress CoCo Brown had begun certifying for a co-pilot seat in the XCOR Lynx, a spaceplane capable of suborbital spaceflight. However, XCOR declared bankruptcy in 2017, before CoCo had the chance to fly.
While Pornhub tried to do something that is never done before, the campaign is met with difficulties.
Particularly, the crowdsourcing method didn't go well.
Sex in space is affected by a long list of physiological changes that are caused by weightlessness.
First of, according to the Newton's third law, "to every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts"
What this means, if a couple is having intercourse, their rhythmic movements, which are the opposite to one another, can counter each other. And this in turn could make it difficult for them to maintain penetration. Furthermore, their movements in their weightlessness, could make them drift uncontrollably.
And not to mention, how would the couple deal with their bodily fluids. In zero gravity, sweat, vaginal moisture and semen can accumulate and float.
Regardless, as of 2009, NASA, the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research has plans to have longer missions, which could include experiments on human reproduction.
If ever humans become an interplanetary species, they need to be able to reproduce in conditions outside Earth's norm. It's the most viable way to ensure the long-term survival of the human species outside Earth.
While some researchers have argued that national and private space agencies have yet to develop any concrete research and plans to address human sexuality in space, some others have told NASA to embrace the knowledge of sexology to integrate human reproduction research into their Human Research Program.
After all, in space, where microgravity and radiation affect humans in many ways, allowing space eroticism could help humans adapt to space life and improve the well-being of future space dwellers.
Then, in 2022, as the world was healing from COVID-19, the adult film industry showed no signs of significant slow down.
In an industry that is worth billions upon billions of dollars, Johnny Sins was still looking forward for a chance to fly and make porn in space.
And this was when he asked billionaire Elon Musk for assistance.
In an interview, Sins said that it has always been his "dream" of being the "first performer to shoot adult film in space," and he confirmed that he was still pursuing it.
"I'd love to be the first performer in space. And when that campaign launched, I'm not sure when that was, maybe 2015, no one had even gone to space on these commercial flights. But now that it's happening, it could become a possibility," Sins said.
He added "it has to happen soon, in the next couple of years, because I'm going to be that age, [...}," as he acknowledged the fact that he isn't that young anymore.
Sins, born in 1978, was eager to involve SpaceX and its CEO Musk, whom he stated would be "on board" with his plan.
"I believe Elon would support it as well. He fits the bill. That would be an incredible promotion for SpaceX," joked Sins, adding that after all, his favorite role throughout his career has been "astronaut."