The Final Full-Frontal: Virgin Galactic Declines $1 Million Space Sex Tape Offer

Soon, space tourism companies such as Virgin Galactic will be flying several flights per day on sub-orbital joyrides. It is expected that this will be quickly followed by orbital “space hotels” where high-paying space sightseers can spend long periods looking down on the Earth (a venture being quickly developed by Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow; there’s an unmanned space hotel prototype currently in orbit). It’s only a matter of time before space tourism becomes commonplace, opening a massive host of scientific and recreational possibilities.

Wherever humans go, sex quickly follows, and although we don’t fully comprehend the implications of sexual pursuits in zero-G, there’s certainly a lot of people on Earth who will want to experience the 100-mile high club for themselves. Although space agencies have flirted with space sex research, the act is generally frowned upon (although the Russian study into “human docking procedures” sounded interesting). Although we are limited in our space sex understanding, the porn industry is quickly catching on, wanting to create the world’s first space porn video, making a huge offer to Virgin Galactic ahead of their first flight at the end of 2009…

It would appear that no frontier is safe from the accelerated spread of pornography. Even the pioneering company of space tourism, Virgin Galactic, is not immune from its advances. According to reports, Richard Branson’s New Mexico spaceship start-up was approached by an undisclosed porn company to buy time on one of Virgin’s first flights. It costs $200,000 per seat, the company offered 5× that amount for the pleasure of shooting the world’s first sub-orbital space flight sex tape. The $1 million offer may sound a lot, but judging by the world’s addiction to pornography, the company would probably make that amount back 100-fold. Not a bad investment.

However, Virgin Galactic flatly rejected the offer. “[The offer] was $1 million, up front, for a sex-in-space movie,” said Virgin Galactic president, Will Whitehorn. He announced the anonymous company’s offer on September 30th during the International Astronautical Congress when detailing the upcoming flights of WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo from Sierra County, New Mexico. When flights begin late 2009 or early 2010, space porn will play no part.

The two-hour flights 100 km in altitude will only feature 5-minutes of complete weightlessness, so it would be interesting to see how the inside of SpaceShipTwo could possibly be turned into a professional sex set. However, I doubt it would be a pleasant experience for the actors, and to be honest I think they might be a little distracted to focus on the script (if sex tapes have a script that is…).

Source: MSNBC