Holiday Extra: A City on Mars

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For this very special Sex & Politics, we invite you to leave your earthly cares behind and explore with us what sex would be like...in space! It turns out, it will be terrible. Dr. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, authors of "A City on Mars," are on to talk about the difficult logistics of both recreational and procreational sex on Mars. Learn about a sex test using geckos, the "snuggle tunnel," and, how we must use the "rocket equation" to answer Dan's question: "How far can you shoot a load in space?" Would monogamy or polyamory best suit life on the red planet? YOU WILL FIND OUT. Although it might seem sexy for Elon Musk to rule mars (to Elon Musk,) Zach warns us that "Space is a giant superfund site that is also trying to kill you with psychics." Not so hot. This is a very fun convo, so Santa is giving it to Magnum and Micro listeners alike. Happy holidays, friends.

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0:00.0	You're listening to sex and politics at Savage.
0:07.0	And Sex and politics.
0:16.6	Elon Musk, who has proved himself to be such a capable administrator and is definitely someone
0:22.1	I would trust with my life wants to colonize Mars.
0:26.2	If you would like to go, Elon is looking for volunteers.
0:29.6	And he's not the only visionary billionaire out there talking about establishing permanent human
0:33.8	colonies in space on the moon, rotating space stations, the visionary billionaires are all over it.
0:41.6	They claim, these visionaries do, that self-sustaining human colonies in space
0:47.0	will be a reality within the next 30 years. You may be wondering, how will people live up there? Where will they find oxygen up there? How will they grow food up there? We know how they'll grow potatoes. We saw how Matt Damon did that in the Martian, but the question almost no one asks,
1:06.7	a question I wondered about. How will people fuck up there? That's just one of the questions Dr Kelly
1:14.2	Wienersmith and Zach Wienersmith ask an answer in their new book, A City on
1:19.3	Mars, Can we settle space? Should we settle space? And have we really thought this through?
1:25.0	Welcome to Sex and Politics. It's our bonus podcast, usually for Magnum Savage Lovecast subscribers exclusively.
1:32.0	But we're making this one available to all as a gift to
1:35.3	our micro listeners and hopefully an inducement to our micro listeners to become Magnum subs so you'll
1:41.9	never miss an episode of Sex and Politics on top of getting
1:46.0	ad-free love cast with more questions and more guests, the extended Savage Love struggle session,
1:52.3	invites to Savage Love Live and more.
1:55.0	All right, back to space.
1:58.0	Kelly and Zach are very in demand on the podcast circuit right now.
2:01.0	Their book is a New York Times bestseller, so I was
2:04.6	thrilled when they agreed to demean themselves by coming on sex and politics.
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