{"id":177,"date":"2011-12-22T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2011-12-22T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:43:26","slug":"cherry-boys-and-how-to-have-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/177","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Boys and How to Have a Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From some Japanese people, I learned two interesting things recently.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that &#8220;cherry boy&#8221; is slang for a male virgin in Japanese. Why this came to be, I have no idea. I mean, boys don&#8217;t have cherries. (Source: I have been a boy all my life but I&#8217;ve never had a cherry.) According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=cherry%20boy\">Urban Dictionary<\/a>, it&#8217;s a &#8220;military term used to describe a new or inexperienced soldier. Can also be used by Asian prostitutes to describe a virgin.&#8221; Well, I suppose if it referred to an inexperienced soldier, it makes sense to apply it to people inexperienced in the battlefield of love.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that if a woman has an orgasm during sex, there&#8217;s a higher probability of the resulting baby being a boy. This seems farfetched, but, as it turns out, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natural-health-for-fertility.com\/conceiving-a-boy.html\">more<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?t=283039\">than<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babyhopes.com\/articles\/how-to-conceive-a-boy.html\">one<\/a> site that mentions this. They all mention something about the female orgasm making the uterus a more alkaline environment, and the sperm with the Y chromosomes being more likely to survive in that alkaline environment because they&#8217;re less robust than the sperm with the X chromosomes. I didn&#8217;t even know that there was a difference in robustness between sperm containing the two different chromosomes. I suppose if you want a boy, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to make her have an orgasm. She&#8217;ll be happy, you&#8217;ll be happy, and you might be slightly more likely to get the baby you always wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From some Japanese people, I learned two interesting things recently. The first is that &#8220;cherry boy&#8221; is slang for a male virgin in Japanese. Why this came to be, I have no idea. I mean, boys don&#8217;t have cherries. (Source: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[270,272,271],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-cherry-boy","tag-japanese","tag-orgasms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}