A trip to good old Mars will take approximately 30 months = thats 2 and
half years, and NASA has just given some grim news to the perspective
crew of this epic journey... "Sorry mate, no sex in space with the
lass..."
Would you survive?
"But he says sex may also benefit missions
by creating 'a sense of stability or normalisation'. Ellison agrees,
saying sex or masturbation could help alleviate boredom and anxiety on
the long, lonely journeys through space."
HA! maybe Playboy can sponsor the trip;-) But seriously, it must mean they A) NASA would have tried this, B) they'd had a bunch of highly respectable scientists (i'm thinking of a different word... starts with N ands with a D and has an ER somewhere in the middle) analyse this to great extent before coming to this conclusion...
Read the Scientific background... On a more serious note, it'll be so cool to be able to have people going to Mars (although not Total Recall style) 2 Years is a bit of an over kill (actually 5 years in total) but the fact that we're considering going that far is astounding!