This is a handy expression, whose original implications are all but lost. It originally was devealoped in the pornographical underground circus, in which, as a mockery of the quite legitimate affairs taking place in the open, a woman would be stripped naked, and affixed to a spinning wheel. then, instead of throwing knives, a man would aim at her with dildoes. The term has come to be synonymous, in different contexts with "Throwing in the Towel," "To steel oneself for..." and also to throw the dildo is to procrastinate or prevaricate.

A tourist to sub-orbital or orbital space, through commercial space flight programs.