I'm not sure what happens to things after Wadsworth stuffs them into his chest compartment. He must have some sort of space age garbage disposal unit in there. Grinds it all to bits.
So how difficult would it be to have “normal” sex on a moon? Arthur C. Clarke put some thought into what was the ideal gravity for sex. Weightless sex, he viewed as a tedious novelty… which I'd tend to agree with. He imagined moon sex would cause you to “bounce all over.” In his opinion, Martian gravity is ideal for hanky panky. In his novel The Hammer of God, he described Martian gravity as”…light enough to do what you want [and] heavy enough to make it interesting.”
The problems with moon sex are sort of baby versions of the problems with zero g sex. Two of the major ones:
On a moon, you're not nearly as heavy, so reciprocating forces from the surface you're on may be enough to bounce you like a trampoline, particularly if that surface is something like a springy mattress.
Personally, I don't see this as being that big of a problem, because people living in that environment would be sure to use materials that dampen and absorb impacts. It probably wouldn't be comfortable furniture on Earth, but it would be just fine for them. As with zero gravity, some sci-fi authors have suggested things like systems of straps to hold each other down, but I really don't think any of that would be necessary. Between using the right materials, and the right positions, I doubt it's that big of a deal.
We all take it for granted on Earth that when we take a step, our feet will grip the floor, enabling us to walk gracefully rather than slide around like we're on ice skates. The reason we don't slip and slide all over the place is because of friction, and the force pulling us downward – our weight – is a major factor in creating that friction. If we weighed significantly less, we'd get less traction on surfaces, and have more of a tendency to slip. This is, by the way, one of the many reasons why you can't drive a monster truck across the surface of an asteroid, like they did in Armageddon. The tires wouldn't grip, and you'd go bouncing off into space.
I checked with my science guru Gman003 on this, and he thinks the drop in friction on Triton would be significant, but not ridiculously so. You could mostly overcome it just by using grippier textures on surfaces.
For all that, it's not really all that evident that there's anything spacey or unusual about Jetta and Ozzy's lovemaking in the panels above. I only gave a few minor nods to the low gravity effects – Jetta's hair floats around a lot more than it would on Earth; and Ozzy has no problem lifting an manipulating her, almost as if they're underwater; and Jetta, apparently levitating, grips the back of the sofa to stabilize herself. It's a very non-spacey looking space sex scene overall.
And for those of you in panic mode because there was no Agent Six cartoon today, fear not. I'm still working on it. The next installments will be the (literally) explosive conclusion of the series, but they involve some tricky effects and compositing and whatnot, so they'll take longer than usual. Hopefully I can have the next batch ready when I update Friday. Oh, by the way, the next update should be on Friday.
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