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A man has certain "needs" sometimes. Do astronauts jerk it? If so how do they get by all the monitors hooked up to them? What about sex in space?
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Don_Dickle lemmy.world Patnou@lemmy.world
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BigBrownBeaver lemmy.world BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world
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bacon_pdp lemmy.world bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
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Alabaster_Mango lemmy.ca Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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You could've dropped that archaic first sentence, lol. As a man, not all men™ have that "need". Also women jerk it too. I've woken up more than once as my partner is in full paint mixer mode.

For the topic at hand, here's an article that goes into it a bit. Mostly just the "can you get aroused in space" angle. There is this bit tho:

I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that can't happen in space

- Astronaut Ron Garan when asked if cosmic erections were possible on a Reddit AMA

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OwOarchist pawb.social OwOarchist@pawb.social
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You could've dropped that archaic first sentence, lol. As a man, not all men™ have that "need". Also women jerk it too. I've woken up more than once as my partner is in full paint mixer mode. For the topic at hand, here's an article that goes into it a bit. Mostly just the "can you get aroused in space" angle. There is this bit tho: I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that...

I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that can’t happen in space

Falling and breaking a hip.

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CmdrShepard49 sh.itjust.works CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that can’t happen in space Falling and breaking a hip.

Being eaten alive by a shark.

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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Being eaten alive by a shark.

I think that a shark could technically be shipped into outer space, along with water for it to live in.

searches

It does sound like fish might not do so well in zero gravity, but they can apparently function in it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fish-dont-do-so-well-space-180961817/

Fish Don’t Do So Well in Space

It turns out that the effects of microgravity on medaka aren’t much different than our own—the effects just set in much faster. For humans, it takes at least ten days for the symptoms to start showing up, but according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the fish started losing bone density almost immediately upon arriving in orbit. Since humans and medaka grow their skeletons in similar ways, that gives scientists a good starting point to figure out how the process actually occurs, Byrne reports.

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that can’t happen in space Falling and breaking a hip.

Well, if you had artificial gravity --- like, a spacecraft/space station with some sort of rotating cylinder, so that you get a similar effect from inertia to what we get from gravity on Earth --- you could effectively do it, though maybe you could quibble on whether it'd technically count as "falling". Science fiction and such has presented that as something likely necessary if one needs to spend lots of time in space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity

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Aussiemandeus aussie.zone Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
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I don't know why you're getting down voted but it seems like a good idea,

Like a cocktail vacuum so there's no floating jizz

Imaging jacking it and it shoots straight into your eye or something

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threelonmusketeers sh.itjust.works threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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A married couple was in space (Mark Lee and Jan Davis)

Indeed, STS-47.

and fucked

Do you have a reputable source for that second part of your claim?

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SavvyWolf pawb.social savvywolf@pawb.social
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I know of nothing that happens to the human body on Earth that can’t happen in space Falling and breaking a hip.

Hmm... Would messing up throwing yourself in zero g and hitting something wrong count?

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BigBrownBeaver lemmy.world BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world
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I don't know why you're getting down voted but it seems like a good idea, Like a cocktail vacuum so there's no floating jizz Imaging jacking it and it shoots straight into your eye or something

I've might offend some snow flakes I guess.
It's 2026 so basically everything is woke, etc..

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