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Can Parents Choose the Sex of Their Baby?
Author(s) -
Shettles Landrum B.,
Vande Wiele Raymond L.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1974.tb00661.x
Subject(s) - offspring , psychology , medicine , pregnancy , biology , genetics
On April 21, 1970 an article appeared in LOOK Magazine reporting that patients could sometimes predetermine the sex of their offspring by using acid or alkaline douches, timing coitus and manipulating the cervical milieu. Subsequently, the doctor quoted in the article, Landrum B. Shettles, wrote a book titled Your Baby's Sex–Now You Can Choose, in which various procedures were outlined. Dr. Shettles' evidence for precoital sex determination has been widely disputed, however. Some of the aspects of the controversy may be clarified by the following papers.