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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Re: How do you get a boy?
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 14:11:10 EST
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> The
> claim was somehow "mankind" reacted to losing thousands of males.  
> Did the percentage of males born go up after WWII?

Alternative explanation (see earlier postings): it's said that infrequent
intercourse favors the conception of boys. Here you have all the GI's stuck
on troopships for weeks (leaving aside their abstinence--or not--among
the gratefully liberated or conquered foreign women!), they come home to
their womenfolk--what better example of "infrequent intercourse" could you
want? Sure, that wouldn't apply everywhere, but it might distort the 
statistics a little.

			John Purbrick
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