Sex-to-order

       Pre-modern theories, methods and practices for developing certain sexed young, otherwise known as 'Sex-to-order' is as odd as it is numbered. Being able to do certain things to get a boy or certain things to get a girl has intrigued many for ages. Wear socks, don't wear socks...do it in the morning, do it at night...forwards, backwards, upside down...do it in the water! listen to orchestra during and after! These are just a few method/superstitions. Another wide practiced method was the 'sugar-method' and dates back to the early 17th century: Increase the intake of sugar in your diet in order to produce females. Decrease the quantity of sugar in your diet to that of a diabetic in order to produce males.

The originator of this method believed that girls were sweeter then boys...and that was it for the culmination of his scientific proposal which was attempted by thousands. Method number two is even more intriguing, it decrees the right side of body is stronger than the left side. The right side was therefore where the males came from and the left side of the body where females came from. To test this, one right testicle was removed from a male and the right ovary removed from a female before copulation. The following birth gave females. Astonished at the results, further testing was done over thousands of matings between hundreds of species to confirm it as false. 

     Of all the 1900+ odd sex theories put forward over the past 2500 years, including using astrology stars and gods, not one has ever been able to stand up solid. But there is one method, one method which produces a higher percentage of one sex over the other. This method runs on the premise of environment and temperature. Inside the male testicles there are male sperm and female sperm, what will develop XX & XY Chromosomes. 

The male sperm is larger then the female sperm and as such, is able to survive harsher temperatures for longer periods of time. Males bred to bitches in outdoor environments during cold season yielded around a 30-40% increase in male offspring. Warmer seasons yielded more females. However, most breedings are done in kennels and indoors where the bitch will be sitting in climate controlled rooms. Because of this the female sperm has the same chance of survival as the hardier male sperm and will yield a more even sexed litter. 

     So to sum it up, you can drink sugar water, cut off a preferable side to your sex organs or wait until the stars are properly aligned while praying to Zeus and Jesus Christ that you get your boy or girl. No theory, method or natural practice however will provide you with that definitive answer to your offspring desire. All you can do is bend the odds by either doing it naked outside in the January snow with an iced tea or with sweaters in July on a Caribbean beach.