Cherry Boys and How to Have a Boy

From some Japanese people, I learned two interesting things recently.

The first is that “cherry boy” is slang for a male virgin in Japanese. Why this came to be, I have no idea. I mean, boys don’t have cherries. (Source: I have been a boy all my life but I’ve never had a cherry.) According to Urban Dictionary, it’s a “military term used to describe a new or inexperienced soldier. Can also be used by Asian prostitutes to describe a virgin.” Well, I suppose if it referred to an inexperienced soldier, it makes sense to apply it to people inexperienced in the battlefield of love.

The second is that if a woman has an orgasm during sex, there’s a higher probability of the resulting baby being a boy. This seems farfetched, but, as it turns out, there’s more than one 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’re less robust than the sperm with the X chromosomes. I didn’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’t hurt to make her have an orgasm. She’ll be happy, you’ll be happy, and you might be slightly more likely to get the baby you always wanted.