It’s generally true that as soon as science develops something new, people find a way to use it for sex. That hasn’t really been the case for space exploration, though … until now. Dr. Rhawn Joseph from the Brain Research Laboratory in California is calling for NASA to speak up on a research topic they’ve previously been pretty quiet about—what would it be like to have Sex on Mars.

Dr. Joseph’s speculations as to the nature of sex in space were published in the Journal of Cosmology’s special issue on Mars. “Human beings are sexual,” he said. “They think about it a lot. So if you’re on a trip to Mars, it’s going to be dark out, you’ll be in a long period of isolation, and there’s not going to be a lot to do. There’s a definite possibility that it could happen.”

There’s a lot of questions surrounding sex in space that need to be looked at—questions like, how will zero-G and intense radiation affect our happy sex time, and how would space change the development of children who might get conceived as a result of said happy sex time?

But, NASA is still currently keeping its knees shut. “Since [the Journal of Cosmology’s] not a NASA publication, and NASA is not currently engaged in any initiatives to colonize Mars, and NASA’s not conducting any research on sex or reproduction in space or on Mars, we are unable to provide a comment on the matter,” said Michael Finneran, a NASA spokesman. Come on, NASA. Wouldn’t it be at least a little fun to try?