This can be linked to the fact that couples usually have sex more often in the honeymoon phase. However, how long a couple has been married is not a variable that can be seriously considered as playing a part in determining the sex of a child. In these days of planned pregnancies, contraception and pre-marital sex, marriage is not necessarily followed by the first flush of sexual discovery. Stress is not just mental tension. It is also associated with physiological responses in the body.
Sex is probably the first casualty in a stressful situation.
Stress kills sexual desire leading to infrequent intercourse in the case of both men and women. Stress affects men in different ways. Stressed-out men may have lower testosterone levels, reduced sperm count and less volume of sperm. Stress can disrupt a woman s menstrual cycle leading to scanty, irregular periods that may even stop totally. She may even stop ovulating.