TENGA , a Japanese company that makes onanism aids , is about to make distance account in quite an unusual way . It will be the first grownup company to send a sex plaything to space as well as trying to retrieve part of the payload – something that could be a first for a non - US secret company .
The missionary station was partly crowdfunded on thewebsite Campfire , raising ¥ 1,833,680 ( 16,642.13 US dollars ) . The projection is in collaboration withInterstellar Technologies(IST ) , a civilian spaceflight companionship that target to make space more accessible by lowering the costs to get textile in area . The launching is expected to happen between July and August fromHokkaido Spaceport , calculate on conditions conditions .
The mission will be launch using IST ’s own MOMO rocket that is design to surrender payloads to an altitude of 100 kilometers ( 62 Admiralty mile ) – that ’s the arbitrary altitude where outer space is conventionally assumed to start out .
TheTENGA Rocket Projecthas three objective . The first is to return 1,000 substance from supporters to space . Then it will unblock a TENGA Robo activity figure along with mate Egg Dog in space . They will finally come back to Earth , where TENGA will attempt to recover them . last , the company designed a special version of its TENGA Cup to amass data regarding the condition in space .
The companionship has quite an ambitious goal : It wants to be the first one to make a masturbation product that can be used in space . The likely machine might be equipped with a vacancy system of rules that can remove lubricant and ejaculate from the gimmick – similar , in a agency , to the space toilet ’s ability to bump off and store solid excrements before they are disposed of back on Earth .
“ The TENGA Rocket will carry messages from our fans and assistant of the project to infinite ; messages of ' love ' and ' exemption ' from masses around the humankind , regardless of area , faith , age , gender or sexuality , ” TENGA President Koichi Matsumoto told IFLScience .
“ On top of this , since the company was founded , I ’ve firmly think that there will eventually be a huge need for TENGA in space . Sexuality and its needs are always a part of us , and so I want to take this opportunity , through my chance encounter with [ IST laminitis ] Mr. Horie , as our first step into blank space - product development . Some sidereal day perhaps , we ’ll be able to make something that the likes of NASA will require to incorporate into their endeavor in space . ”
Space and sexual activity have an interesting and complex relationship . There ’s been very trivial discussion of sexual health in space from westerly space agencies – and this is concerning . It is important to recognize that sexual wellness is just a part of human wellness , and if people are require to spend longer and longer metre beyond Earth , ignoring sexual health is not just absurd , it ’s life-threatening .
IFLScience spoke with Dr Eleanor Armstrong and Akvile Terminaite , respectively the research worker and designer ofEXO - MOAN Studio . They foreground that attempts to bridge over the cosmic gap between sex and space are not that unheard of . For representative , there have been Soviet space onanism help , as well as the experimental2suit , to help people have sexual urge in infinite .
“ We ’re really strike that this is a fleshlight – or a sexual practice miniature for phallus – when so much of the sexuality - technical school diligence here on Earth is focused on the vibrator for vagina and clitorises . This might be because place is so often thought of as being ‘ masculine ’ , militarise ( mapped onto cis - hands with phallus ) – so it would be interesting if this was the first successful sex activity toy specifically design for space , ” Terminaite and Dr Armstrong told IFLScience .
It will be interesting to see if and how this foreign mission changes the relationship between sex and outer space . We might shortly confirm if the sky , for sex toys , is indeed the limit point .
