Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult video sites, is trying to make a giant leap for pornography with the launch of a new crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising funds to film the first XXX-rated movie in space.
Pornhub’s proposed space project, called “Sexploration” (we kid you not) is seeking $3.4 million via Indiegogo in order to make an adult movie featuring well known porn stars Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins as two horny cosmonauts ‘getting it on’ in zero G. The $3.4 million will mostly be spent on getting the film stars and crew into space, including the cost of the flights, training, space suits and everything else needed. Additionally, the website says 21 percent of the fund will go on film production, citing the need for “specially adapted gear”, as well as wages, insurance and Indiegogo’s campaign fee.
“Our work is definitely cut out for us,” PornHub says. “We need to train and outfit our crew, consult with a dedicated team of specialists, purchase custom modified film equipment, and completely fund the use of the shuttle that’ll take us on our journey to space.”
Somewhat suspiciously, Pornhub neglected to mention which space company it would be using to take its sexy stars and film crew into space, which leads us to suspect they might have great difficulty finding anyone who’s “up for it”.
Pornhub has limited options. Given that it hopes to start filming in 2016, that rules out U.S. commercial space flight companies like Space X and Virgin Galactic, which are both still testing their rockets (and have been for years).
In fact, the only organization that’s currently able to put humans into space is Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. But Russia is unlikely to be receptive to Pornhub’s proposed mission, even if it does somehow raise the $3.4 million it says it needs. For one thing, Russia cancelled space tourism flights in 2010, having previously taken seven space tourists into orbit between 2001 and 2009. Russia said it halted space tourism due to the increase in the International Space Station crew’s size, using the seats for expedition crews that would otherwise have been sold to paying spaceflight participants. But even if Russia was willing to do so, we don’t think $3.4 million would cut it – Roscosmos’ seven previous customers paid between $10 million and $20 million a head for the privelege.
Add to that the Russian governments’s somewhat prudish nature, exemplified by its efforts to block pornography on the Web, it’s hard to see Roscosmos rising to the occasion and supporting Pornhub’s efforts.
via Marshall Horn, CFTC Pornhub Wants to Make Space Porn: But Will Russia 'Rise' to the Challenge?
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