VIRGIN GALACTIC, the Space tourism organ of Richard Branson's empire, has refused to whore itself out by turning down a million dollar offer to allow a porn film to be made in space.

Virgin Galactic, whose commercial White Knight Two plane is set to start shooting off into space late next year from New Mexico, apparently turned down a million dollars "up front" to let man boldly come where no man has come before. "That was money we had to refuse, I'm afraid", prudishly noted Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn at an International Astronautical Congress.

The million dollar indecent proposal was actually fairly generous considering VG says it plans to extort $200,000 a person for a disappointingly short two-hour flight including around only five minutes of weightlessness.

But VG is obviously not hard up for the cash, with 280 punters having already deposited $40 million in anticipation (money shot or what?).

Some important questions remain, however, about whether sex in a gravity-free environment would even be possible, with some studies claiming it would not, as blood flow to the lower extremities is exceptionally weak during weightlessness. Not helpful when trying to hit that zero g-spot.

So it seems that porn fans will just have to satisfy themselves with weight(less) dreams for the time being, until Deep Throat Space Sixty Nine or 2010: a Space Orgy become a reality sometime in the future. µ

L'Inq
MSNBC