Budget of $3.4 million being raised through Indiegogo.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Pornhub.com is hoping to gain even more notoriety by crowdfunding a pornographic film that will be shot 68 miles above the Earth’s surface, which is technically outside of the atmosphere, making the porn shoot the first to take place in outer space.
The “Sexploration” campaign hopes to raise $3.4 million in the next 30 days viaIndiegogo. If the funding level is reached, Pornhub vice president Corey Price is shooting for a late 2016 release, according to the Huffington Post.
“If all goes well, the schedule will include an entire six months of training for space travel for our crew and performers before we’re comfortable with launching them into space,” Price told The Huffington Post by email. “We need to know all participants are sufficiently prepared for the rigors of space-age coital activity (as well as filming in or past the stratosphere).”
According to Uproxx, Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins are the stars who will be responsible for thrusting Pornhub’s project, titled “Sexploration,” into the limelight.
Lovia, 26, is particularly excited about the opportunity. “The bragging rights alone are worth it,” she told The Huffington Post. “We don’t know if any astronauts have had sex in space, so we’d be the first to publicly admit it.”
Price said the plan is to have Sins and Lovia go aboard a shuttle, such as those operated by Virgin Galactic and Space X, with a six-person film crew. Pornhub press representative Mike Williams insisted the company is currently in talks with a number of private space travel companies.
If they manage to make it past the confines of the Earth’s atmosphere in their effort to make pornographic history, Lovia and Sins could encounter a scenario that their training might not prepare them for.
“Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, apparently, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls,” biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School told Space.com in 2011. “Think about it; you have no friction, you have no resistance.”
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If the guy can’t get it up, they could always use the famous “Houston, we have a problem” phrase…But seriously, it will be a new first in “space docking”.