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Re: What options?
Chris Vancil — (archived)

E.P. Grondine wrote: 6 months is a whole lot different than 3 years.

Chris writes: I'm sorry but your wrong. Six months or three years are pretty much the same in this case. The only difference is you will be doing which ever sex act you prefer 6 times more in three years. That is it's 36 months...

E.P. Grondine wrote: By the way, you might also want to speak with the astronauts wives and husbands about this as well.

Chris writes: EP, you don't think the subject of sex away from home might have come up before a Mars mission? Have you ever had a wife or lover?

Anyone crazy enough to marry a person who's job consists of riding rockets into space has possibly thought about the probable sexual activities the spacefarer might do while away from "home" and has long ago excepted it as part of the healthy sexual person they married.

I honestly don't see "sexual deprivation" even existing during manned flight to Mars.

There are plenty of real problems with interpersonal relationships that will be dangerous on a mission without making up silly new ones. There are several good papers on the psychology of spaceflight that maybe you should read. (When I get some time I will see if there online and will post the URLs.)

--Chris Vancil

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