2069: A SPACE EROTICA ODYSSEY
As soon as mankind harnessed the technology to make pictures move, our first orders of business were going to space and having sex. In 1902, French prestidigitator Georges Méliès brought the medium an early triumph of artifice with A Trip to the Moon, the groundbreaking short that envisioned a crew voyaging to the stars and meeting with the spontaneously-combustible Selenites. By that point, pioneering smut-peddlers had already been cranking out silent “stag films” for years, a sub-industry born almost immediately following the advent of cinema.
A tendency hard-wired into the brain of homo sapiens motivates both impulses: sex and space exploration both feed a deep-seated need for growth and expansion, the mapping of new lands, once dubbed “manifest destiny”, and understood to be an essential component of the human condition. Erotic depictions date back to the BC years, as does
