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Letter: Sex on the Moon

Published 9 December 1995

From P.F. Perry

If evidence is needed for the value of a classical education to scientists, consider the apparently serious suggestion that the Moon will become a sex resort due to reduced gravity (Review, 11 November).

Anyone who has seen astronauts undergoing weightlessness training in swimming pools should be reminded of the advice in the Kama Sutra that “the more difficult positions are best essayed in water”. Even in these days of privatised utilities this must be cheaper than a trip to the Moon.

Issue no. 2007 published 9 December 1995

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