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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/OlginoCuck on 2023-10-18 04:42:19+00:00.

Basically title. They had a married couple in space and never said if sex was possible. Given the “charlie brown effect” where a lot of the blood doesn’t circulate normally and settles in the head and hands and and stuff, that’s led to a lot a conflicting like sound bytes about it but no definitive answer to the question, “can astronauts get erections and do sex stuff in space?”

Is there any good books about the question of space reproduction, or about the history of the topic of space reproduction at NASA and/or Roscosmos? Did the subject come up when the NASA nerds learned that Jan Davis and Mark Lee had gotten married? Did anyone pitch doing a sex study since it was the first time it was a publicly-acceptable opportunity?

Idk seems like an important question given it’s a big part of how we exist and NASA wants people to exist in space and everything. Is there any definitive answer and is there any history about how the question has been studied by all the space nerds?