Arpa Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 (edited) Hello Ladies. Tiknayk Papkasunk! This is off the LEFT FIELD!! :) La Donna e Sinistra. The aria goes; La Donna e Mobile... Woman is fickle... It may be time to rewrite it to read La Donna e Sinistra.... Woman is Sinister! What else is new!!?? Remember that "witch" in the Garden of Eden that spoiled all the fun Adam was having chasing "bunnies" and other fun creatures when SHE pulled him down???!!! My apologies for some of the graphic language. The cover story of this week's Newsweek is about gender selection. You can read more here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3990135/ I found this hilarious. The most hilarious is the one about "strings", in italics. We knew there was something "sinister"(left)about women!! :) The old adage goes; "Can't live with them, can't live without them". Shall we rewrite that to read; Can't BE with them, can't BE without them?? Old wives' tales? Old wives?? The rest are not less hilarious either. The Ancient Art of Making Babies It's just amazing what some people will try to get that boy or girl of their dreams By Karen Springen NewsweekJan. 26 issue - For centuries, kings and queens tried myriad ways to increase the odds of giving birth to two boys—an heir and a spare. Even in these high-tech times, couples still use unproven, often wacky methods to try for the boy or girl of their dreams. It's easy to see why couples might fervently believe that a particular folk remedy is effective: they forget that even without messing with Mother Nature, they've got a 50-50 chance of getting their preferred gender. Whatever crazy thing they do, half the time it's going to work. A guide to some old wives' tales. SEXUAL POSITION: For an X-bearing (girl) sperm to win the race to the egg, folk wisdom counsels that the woman should initiate sex, try the missionary position, achieve orgasm first and then sleep on her partner's left side. For a Y-bearing (boy) sperm to win, the man should enter from the rear, penetrate deeply at climax and achieve orgasm first. Alas, it's difficult to ever document efficacy—or lack of it. "How are you going to prove that he really did ejaculate deep in the vagina?" asks Dr. Sandra Carson, immediate past president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. DIET: For a girl, Mom should eat veggies, sweets and a high-calcium diet. For a boy, she'll want to try red meat and salty snacks. In "How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby," Dr. Landrum Shettles (who died last year) advises men who want sons to drink caffeinated coffee within a half hour before sex because it "may impart some extra speed to the male-producing sperm." Hmmm. "If you change your diet, nobody has proved that at the site of the egg that changes anything," says Carson. And taking an odd diet to extremes may be risky for pregnant women, who need lots of vitamins and minerals. TIMING: Shettles recommends sex during ovulation—usually 14 days after a woman begins her period—for a boy, and several days earlier for a girl. (He maintains that female sperm outlive male sperm and swim more slowly.) Alas, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1995 concluded that "the timing of sexual intercourse in relation to ovulation has no influence on the sex of the baby." TEMPERATURE: Men who want boys should "keep it cool," says Shettles, and avoid hot tubs and tight clothes that lower sperm counts because heat kills less hardy male-producing sperm first. STRING: In 18th-century France, men tied string around their left testicle in hope of producing a boy. Some ancients believed that male and female sperm came from the right and left testicle, respectively. THE MOON: Intercourse during a full moon supposedly increases the odds of conceiving a girl. A quarter moon is said to do the trick for a boy. ABSTINENCE: Shettles believes male sperm are smaller and weaker. So, to increase the odds of a boy, he says, couples should avoid intercourse if they're within four days of ovulation to increase sperm count as much as possible and give the boys more of a fighting chance on the big night. For a girl, he advises frequent sex until 48 hours before ovulation. There's no need to keep this list at your bedside. Edited January 23, 2004 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurgen Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 In Latin, sinister means both left and deceiving. Dexter, on the other hand, means right and righteous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 There are two more very important aspects that we omitted - La Donna e Mobile and La Famme Fatale! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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