This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s
For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.
This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.
The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?
40s for athletes? I’m “only” a hobbyist gym goer and my RHR is in the mid-30s, which my doctor confirms is normal for someone that does a lot of cardio. That would make me think real athletes are even lower
From the book “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach:
In a memoir, astronaut Michael Collins relates a story of a physician back in the Apollo era who recommended regular masturbation on long missions, lest astronauts develop prostate infections. The flight surgeon for Collins’s moon mission “decided to ignore that advice,” and ignoring seems to have been the basic approach to the human sex drive ever since. It’s the same way at the Russian space agency. Cosmonaut Alexandr Laveikin told me he too had heard that lengthy abstinence could cause prostate infections, but that the space agency pretends the issue doesn’t exist. “It’s up to yourself how you will deal with it. But everybody is doing it, everybody understands. It’s nothing. My friends ask me, ‘how are you making sex in space?’ I say, ‘By hand!’” As for the logistics: “There are possibilities. And sometimes it happens automatically while you sleep. It’s natural.” John Charles told me he’d heard about the link between prostate health and “self-stim” --at NASA, there’s an abbreviation for everything-- but never heard any formal discussion, pro or con, of orbital masturbation.
I’m amused by the use of “automatically” when I’ve always heard it in my terrestrial life as “involuntarily”. Changes the implication in a positive way, I’d say. Involuntary means you can’t stop it. Automatic means it’s supposed to happen.
From now on, I’ll refer to sex as automatic fun time.
Automatic means it’s supposed to happen.
From now on, I’ll refer to sex as automatic fun time.
**“Your body, My choice” vibes intensify**
Oh god, not like that D:
Always upvotes for Mary Roach. Everyone should read her breakout work, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
Masturbation…stiff…cadavers. I dont like that juxtaposition
She’s a treasure. Reading “Spook” now.
Alas, that’s my least favorite of hers that I’ve read so far. Her angle is to all the questions you want answered, then get the answer. Spook, being about the unknowable, means the answers are a lot less fulfilling. Still a worthwhile read, just not her best in my opinion.
In a memoir, astronaut Michael Collins relates a story of a physician back in the Apollo era who recommended regular masturbation on long missions, lest astronauts develop prostate infections. The flight surgeon for Collins’s moon mission “decided to ignore that advice,”
The Apollo program received hundreds, if not thousands of warning advices from doctors. Most of them were rather ridiculous in hindsight.
It was certainly not a big deal to ignore this one.
I read somewhere that when the pair who were husband and wife went up, officially on record, no they didn’t do the deed.
Other astronauts who have been asked about the couple answer it “well there wasn’t too much privacy, so it’d be difficult”. Not exactly a no.
We all know they banged for science, but NASA probably just wants it kept hush hush for whatever reason.
It’s not like they could publish anything with such an embarrassingly small data set
Space is cold, ok?!
Nicely done.
Move closer to the sun. That oughta warm things up a bit.
Solar radiation makes my noodle limp, too.
kept hush hush for whatever reason..
The christians don’t like sex.
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99% of people arn’t going to have the necessary motivation
Have you ever been stuck orbiting the earth with a ground crew watching your vitals?
Twice.
No.
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They would if they knew this makes multiple orgasms possible for men
That’s sounds like a shitty ruined orgasm.
Please I’m begging you, teach me this art. I’m begging you! Please!
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I was expecting some one or two sentences about breath control and kegels - which you did include. But i wasn’t expecting a whole fucking essay. I’m going to take all you’ve said and put the effort in. This genuinely seems like legit advice.
I figured out how to orgasm without ejaculating or at least hold most of it back when I was in college. My girlfriend at the time and I would go 4-5 times a night sometimes. It was pretty great. Unfortunately she was crazy and no one I’ve been with since then has had the drive to repeat that. It makes me sad sometimes to think about how much I’ve missed out on because I couldn’t find a compatible partner.
Yeah that’s a keeper.
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I learned a lot too, thanks!
You mentioned some caveats while holding off, could you elaborate on that when you are free or provide a link to which I can read.
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God damn it, that’s the third one this week lost to the sex cult.
We have a cult?!? Fuck yeah, sign me up.
They can, but the increased radiation and weightlessness can have make getting an erection difficult.
https://www.sciencealert.com/spaceflight-could-exacerbate-erectile-dysfunction-scientists-discover
“Today I embark on my preparation for my future astronaut career.”
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That makes sense, but wouldn’t that only be a problem for the astronauts who have a phallus?
I’d be willing to volunteer for science reason.
troff
lmao
Maybe Mark Lee and Jan Davis on STS-47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-47
If you read the article, they were almost never awake at the same time since they were on different shifts. That was mostly likely done on purpose.
sex in space?
Well, not exactly. There’s these bulky suits, you know, they get in the way.
Inside the ISS it might be a different story.
The ISS is in space.
Then again, so is planet earth so I can answer from that perspective: yeah, it’s pretty easy. We have gravity and don’t usually have monitors on so just whip it out and have fun
Technically it’s in the upper atmosphere 🤓
Technically
It’s not even in the outermost layer of the atmosphere! The ISS orbital altitude is somewhere around 420km high (heh) while the thermosphere stretches from 85 to 600km up. The exosphere stretches far beyond that, up to 10000km or so.
Earth is in Space.
That’s… What I said?
The ISS is in space.
You don’t say!
They use a cone…
Pics?
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