Sex in spaaaaaaaaaace

iamcoyote (update: wrong writer, sorry! idiosynchronic wrote the post) exposes the idiocy of the pearl-clutching Puritans. (Do Puritans have pearls?):

...Slate attempted to deal with this in an article from Wednesday, "Do Astronauts Have Sex?" and guess what - it was all about the oh, pearl-grasping naughtiness factor.

And if its not about the titillation factor that irresistible to print editors, it's about the outrage it engenders in the fundies that someone, somewhere, is fucking and enjoying every minute of it. And they're almost certain the fornicators are those Godless French. It's almost a fricking disease - the media loves this shit, and we seem to eat it up in one form of emotional state or another.

NASA is really screwed. They can't seriously admit sexual relations in the astronaut corps because of the Puritanical streak in this hypocritical country. Even if they did manage it as an "experiment" between a married couple that would be acceptable to the pro-marriage idiots, the idiots would almost certainly would have a fit that NASA wastes taxpayer dollars on it.

Of course astronauts will need sex. How will NASA address this? How can we even think about attacking Mars if we don't address every single aspect of the human experience? Must we reduce it to a titillating snigger and a nudge nudge wink wink or can we have an intelligent study on how to deal with such needs? Because NOT addressing it will destroy any space mission of any length.