History Main / ZeroGSpot

Unfortunately, a bit of [[ArtisticLicenceSpace Artistic Licence]] is at play here. In zero gravity, the blood in your body pools higher up, and your heart shrinks as it gets used to doing less work, both of which are obviously bad for trying to maintain arousal. Zero gravity heavily reduces both the friction and resistance in the environment, subsequently removing most of the actual physical feedback people expect and are familiar with from sexual activity on Earth. The microgravity environment would also mean that the couple would be a slave to Newtonian physics, meaning that any movement is going to cause both partners to drift, then careen wildly around their spaceship, resulting in multiple possible injuries. All of these issues still apply to lesser extents in low gravity environments such as the surface of Mars or the Moon, so until we figure out ArtificialGravity this trope will likely remain a fantastical one.

* In ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'', Justin has a HomoeroticDream where he and Brian have zero-G sex.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": there's a brief moment where Lestat and Louis levitate horizontally over their bed during lovemaking.

Many writers have turned their imagination to the subject of what sex would be like in zero gravity. The general consensus seems to be that it would be like a TwoPersonPoolParty without the water (examples involving ''more'' than two people are hard to come by, as no one enjoys dealing with the [[IncrediblyLamePun three-body problem]]).

* Happens to Franchise/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/LoisLane [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/519d6f39c7c1007e85805946f05108eb/tumblr_n8hyk0tRwN1sr9pgto1_540.jpg often.]]

* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': In this crossover Shinji is ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' and Asuka ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' (in the rewrite). In the epilogue they make love floating between Earth and the Moon. Given their bodies were modified with Kryptonian DNA with all it implies (flight, invulnerability, capability to hold your breath virtually indefinitely...) they had no trouble pulling it off.

* In ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers and [[Franchise/XMen Gladiator]] have sex in a Shi'ar starship.

'''Astra:''' Sex? They live on planets here, Matt. They do have gravity. Trust me, you're not the first to think of it. They actually have rooms for that, up near the top, where the effect is the strongest. But [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome it's messy, it's awkward, you smack into the walls a lot, and then you have to clean up and it's kinda gross]]... [[BlatantLies Or, uh, that's what friends have told me, anyway.]]

* In the Creator/AlanDeanFoster novelization of ''Film/{{Alien}}'', Parker tells Brett about an inexperienced visitor to a zero-G brothel who started spinning during the "act", and then started throwing up...also in zero-G.

-->[I]f you've ever held a girl in your arms at 0.4 gees, you need no explanation. If you haven't, explanations will do no good. I'm also sorry for you.
* The ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' novel ''The Price Of Glory'' finished with the afterglow of such a scene, with the couple in question "turning gently".
* Happens in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''[[Literature/WorldWar Colonization]]'' books. This is justified, since the ''Lewis and Clark'' is on a lifelong mission in the Asteroid Belt, and her crew is never coming home. Condoms are a must, though, since no one wants to experiment with trying to bear a child in zero-g. It helps that their jumpsuits are designed to "zip together". Even then, there is plenty of cleanup afterwards. When the guy is incredulous at the latter fact, the girl points out that there's ''always'' cleanup after sex even in gravity, it's just that guys normally don't bother. In the final ''Homeward Bound'' book, by the 2030s, humans have habitats in orbit of Earth and the Moon. Presumably, this trope is a regular occurrence there.

* Creator/VernorVinge mentions the problem of obtaining leverage during zero-g sex in ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky''; also, one of the protagonists in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' thinks that zero-g sex isn't what it's cracked up to be (again largely due to the difficulties of obtaining leverage safely).

* In ''[[Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark The Faraway Saikat]]'', Ivar's bed aboard the Saikat station is little more than an anti-gravity platform he floats above when sleeping. Not sure how comfortable that would be. Also not sure how the bed keeps him from drifting out of the field and crashing to the floor. Ivar also uses it to sleep with a [[HumanAlien Kni'lina]] female.

--> No wonder that the most popular item in the ship's library these last few days had been the ''UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} [[Literature/KamaSutra Sutra]]'', an old book and an old joke, [[DontExplainTheJoke explained so often that it was no longer funny.]]

--> "... and everyone had learned a great deal, though not necessarily in the areas that the organizers intended. The first few weeks, for example, were mostly occupied by experiments in zero-gravity sex, despite warnings that this was an expensive addiction for those compelled to spend most of their lives on planetary surfaces."
* In one of the John Grimes novels by Creator/ABertramChandler, a female purser tells Grimes that she got her job after the last purser broke her leg because she failed to obey the Golden Rule of space travel--''Stop what you are doing and secure any loose objects when the acceleration warning sounds''--though the ship's doctor avoided injury by landing on top of her. Grimes is about to ask what the purser and the doctor were up to that they couldn't stop doing, [[TooMuchInformation then quickly shuts up]].
* In Creator/BenBova's novel ''Kinsman'' the astronaut characters consider founding the Zero Gee Club; like the Mile High Club, but higher.
-->"Think of the possibilities."\\
"Hmm. Three-dimensional."
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'':

** In a nod to the problems involved, one character in ''{{Literature/Ringworld}}'' specifically turns the sleepfield ''off'' because "we need gravity for this".
** Creator/LarryNiven discusses the difficulties in low gravity sex in his Literature/KnownSpace novel ''Literature/ThePatchworkGirl''.
* In Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldTime'', it's mentioned that one spaceflight saw frequent zero-g orgies because the astronauts had no better way to pass their time.
* Something similar involving buoyancy instead of gravity occurs in Alida Van Gores '' Mermaid's Song'': [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]] sex requires either a heavily padded cave or lots of searoom given the unavoidable propulsive effects of the undulations involved.

* In Creator/PeterFHamilton's ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'', the Lady Macbeth has a fold-out zero-g sex cage. It's probably not a unique piece of equipment.
* Mention is made of this happening in Travis S Taylor's ''On To The Asteroid''... in a room on the spaceship that live-streamed video to Earth 24/7. The people talking about it mentioned that the audience for the unintended space porno would have enjoyed it more if the space tourists who pioneered zero-g sex had been sexy young actors rather than middle-aged out of shape businesspeople.
* ''Presumed Dead'' by Rick Kennett. A female soldier stranded on an alien planet is watching some [[InstructionalFilm boring holographic lectures]] on her computer to kill time. She activates one titled ''[[UnusualEuphemism Space Fittings]]'' only to find it's [[PornStash zero-G porn]].

* ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama''. An EatingTheEyeCandy version when Commander Norton mulls the effects of zero-gravity on female anatomy.

* Eric Idle in ''Literature/TheRoadToMars'' described it as "like having sex ''inside'' a water bed."
* In Creator/IanDouglas's ''Literature/SemperMars'', Dr. David Alexander does this with his French observer during the long voyage between Earth and Mars. Finding room to do this in the cramped cycler is difficult but not impossible. They end up using harnesses to keep themselves from drifting away from each other during vigorous thrusts. There's also plenty of cleanup afterwards, trying to chase down all the fluid droplets before they get into some critical system. Apparently, there is also a space version of the MileHighClub called the Three Dolphin Club. In ''Literature/LunaMarine'', Alexander explains to his new lover that, when dolphins have sex, there is a frequently a third dolphin helping "push", hence the name.

* In ''Literature/TheSparrow'' by Mary Doria Russell, Anne and George have one suggestion: duck tape.

* Characters do have sex in space aboard spacecraft and both deep space and orbital facilities in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse and Franchise/StarWarsLegends. Normally this would be done under artificial gravity, however artificial gravity in the Star Wars universe is variable both directionally (outer decks on both Death Stars have gravity following the curve of its hull like on a planet or moon with inner decks all being oriented one way, Super Star Destroyer ''Lusankya's'' prison wings are upside down relative to the rest of the ship, and ''Millennium Falcon's'' gunwells have gravity at angles to the rest of the ship) and in field strength. This makes gravity manipulation to spice up one's sexual encounters a very real possibility.
** Not to mention that Force users [[PowerPerversionPotential can levitate both themselves and others]]...
* Creator/JohnVarley's ''[[Literature/GaeaTrilogy Titan]]'': “Cirocco liked space, reading and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.” In the second scene she is not reading...
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Inverted in ''Literature/FallingFree'' when a girl specifically engineered for free fall (with a second pair of arms instead of legs) wonders how 'downsiders' can have sex without bouncing apart, since they have no lower hands to grip their lovers with. Her downsider lover explains that gravity has its uses. She also points out that condoms sure beat chasing bodily fluids around the compartment with a hand-vac.

* In one of ''Literature/TheWitcher'' novels Geralt reminisces some Yennefer's "experiments", including use of a levitation spell on them both.

* Private Media Group filmed a brief scene for the space-themed pornographic film ''[[JustForPun The Uranus Experiment]]'' in a Russian aircraft flying a parabolic track (similar to NASA's Vomit Comet). ''The Uranus Experiment'' features around 20 seconds of actors Sylvia Saint and Nick Lang (who portray astronauts living on a space station) having sex in freefall. The scene was controversially nominated for a Nebula Award (as a protest against the Nebula Awards' Best Screenplay category), but did not win.

* Referenced in ''ComicBook/AstroCity: Astra Special'' #2. Astra's boyfriend tries to persuade her to indulge, leading to this exchange:

'''Astra:''' Sex? They live on planets here, Matt. They do have gravity. Trust me, you're not the first to think of it. They actually have rooms for that, up near the top, where the effect is the strongest. But [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome it's messy, it's awkward, you smack into the walls a lot, and then you have to clean up and it's kinda gross]].

-->-- '''Website/{{SFDebris}} review of ''Moontrap'''''

* Happens in ''Fanfic/EthereumGladiator'', given there's no gravity outside the Nethercity's ecodomes.

--> "James, take me around the world one more time!"

* Justin has a dream that he and Brian have this in ''Series/QueerAsFolk.''

** [[http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20120227.html And now]] Jack and Jenny are getting in on the experience.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant And no]], this title has nothing to do with a woman lacking a G-spot, or the lack of evidence of G-spots. [softreturn]

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' ends up having [[spoiler:both its main characters, Mikazuki and Atra, making love inside the zero G environment of Gundam Barbatos' cockpit]].
* In ''Manga/UQHolder'', [[spoiler:Touta and Karin have sex in the vacuum of space (they're immortal, so it won't hurt them) after the former recovers the latter from a very, very lengthy trip through the vast emptiness of space]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Sterling Archer and [[spoiler:Pam, whom he had stowed away specifically for the purpose]] in "Space Race Part 1".

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac have sex while the pair are floating vertically just above the ground.
** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", there's a brief moment where Lestat and Louis levitate horizontally over their bed during lovemaking.

* In ''Manga/UQHolder'' [[spoiler:Touta and Karin have sex in the vacuum of space (they're immortal so it won't hurt them) after the former recovers the latter from a very, very lengthy trip through the vast emptiness of space]].

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' when Jay and Missy collaborate on a crossover {{slash}} fic set in space, and Jay insists they include a zero-gravity sixty-nine scene.

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder]]", Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac have sex while the pair are floating vertically just above the ground.
** There's a brief moment in the sixth episode where Lestat and Louis levitate horizontally over their bed during lovemaking.

** Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac have sex in the pilot while the pair are floating vertically just above the ground.