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Originally Posted by Lady Bear Cub
Wouldn't the sperm float around and cause equipment to malfunction? I was at the Houston Space Center and they said they had a similar problem with certain foods.. I'm assuming we are talking about sex inside a space craft.
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Yeah, well, any loose liquid inside a spacecraft is bad news. Water has pretty high surface tension so it tends to ball up under microgravity. But it can make lots of tiny droplets, and they go everywhere. I imagine loose semen would do the same. Again, I'm not convinced the flagellation behavior of individual sperm cells would add much to the behavior of the semen, but just as a loose liquid, it's something to be avoided.
Space condoms to the rescue!