Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project
Sex Selection: Morality, Harm, and the Law
Abstract
For centuries, couples have tried to choose the sex of their children. Italian men bit their wife’s left ears during intercourse to beget daughters; Swedish men hung their pants on the right bedpost to father boys; while German woodcutters took their axes to bed and chanted: “Ruck, ruck, roy, you shall have a boy!” or “Ruck, ruck, raid, you shall have a maid!”This content is limited to qualifying members.
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