Put ten super hot people on a tiny raft. Take it out to the middle of the ocean and leave it there. Wait for the orgies to begin…

That’s what anthropologist Santiago Genoves thought would happen when he stuck a bunch of attractive people in a small space they couldn’t escape - lots of sex, and lots of fighting. But how things actually turned out shocked both him and the world, resulting in the Acali and its crew becoming internationally famous (or maybe that should be infamous…).

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We give you Just The Gist but if you want more, there’s this: 

Watch the incredible 2018 documentary “The Raft”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXIOYxTkXY 

Listen to some interviews with members of the crew of the Acali: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1k30 

Read these articles that came out around the time The Raft was released:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/mutiny-on-the-sex-raft-70s-experiment-santiago-genoves 

https://povmagazine.com/sex-raft-documentary-experiment-explained/ 

Wikipedia has all the essential details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acali 

If you’re curious to know more about the earlier attempts Santiago made to cross the Atlantic in a reed boat, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra_II 

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