PornHub Aims to Shoot Porn in Space

THE COSMOS—PornHub created a truly galactic stir with its announcement Wednesday of a crowdfunding campaign to send Digital Playground contract star Eva Lovia and 2015 AVN Male Performer of the Year nominee Johnny Sins into space and capture the two making sweet space nookie up there. Outlets including The Huffington Post, CNBC, The NY Daily News, The Washington Post, The Toronto Sun and many, many more jumped on the story, reveling in PornHub's stated intent, if it reaches its funding goal, to put Lovia, Sins and a six-person crew through six months of training in preparation for the journey, which would launch them all 68 miles above Earth's surface. Oh yeah, and that funding goal? $3.4 million. Sure, it may seem at first blush like literal pie-in-the-sky hopes to scrape up that much dough for one porn scene ... but in just the single day since the campaign launched, it has already amassed $9,487 (as of press time). And there are 60 days left to go. Lovia, for one, is all raring to roll on the whole plan. "I'm ecstatic to be a part of such a great concept and potentially making history," she told AVN. "I never thought that by getting into porn I would end up in space. This just shows the fans and viewers at home that anything is possible, even taking a load in zero gravity beyond the earth's atmosphere." But wait ... would this make history? As it happens, European mega-studio Private drummed up a whirlwind of hoopla way back in 1999 about a supposed zero-gravity sex scene in its giant-budgeted release The Uranus Experiment. According to AVN's review of the movie, however, that turned out to be "in a word, bullshit." Perhaps PornHub's Sexploration (as the proposed project has been dubbed) will be more on the level should it come to fruition? Presuming as much, should you be the sort who'd really, really like to see levitating jizz become a reality, PornHub is offering all sorts of incentives for backing its Indiegogo campaign, from a one-week subscription to Sins' website JohnnyAndKissa.com at the $50 level, to one of the spacesuits worn by Sins and Lovia at the $150,000 level (which, the campaign page notes, would be "great for cosplay enthusiasts"). See more about Sexploration, including a promotional video with Sins and Lovia, here.