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I think there must have been this rumor floating around NASA for the longest time that if they discussed sex in space, they would go blind or something like that.

Today we're talking about the Big Bang, but not in the way you probably think.

We're talking about sex, specifically sex in space.

It's a topic NASA and other space agencies have treated as

taboo for decades, because let's be real, nobody wants to explain to Congress why taxpayer

dollars would be spent on something so titillating. This prudish head in the sand approach

worked well enough for managing the straight-laced Boy Scout-like

and overwhelmingly male astronaut crews of half a century ago. But today, with human spaceflight

booming as never before and more and more everyday people signing up to someday slip Earth's

surly bonds, figuring out how folks will stay healthy and happy in orbital habitats is actually kind

of important.

And sex is a fundamental part of that complex equation.

I'm Lee Billings, senior editor for Space and Physics at Scientific American, and this

is Science Quickly.

Our guests today are two experts on space sexology.

Yes, that is a real thing.

Simon Dubay, a research psychologist at the Kinsey Institute, and Shauna Pandya,

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