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I read the actual study on it and it doesn't mention anything about choosing the sex. That did however lead me to another paper with a hypothesis from some Indian I think which read like some psychobabble.Even accepting your linked study as true, it says absolutely nothing about determining the sex of the fetus. It mentions being more receptive to sperm of an extant partner as opposed to non-partner sperm, but nothing to upset the very well understood mechanism of diploid reproduction in which a male's sperm provide half of the DNA for recombinanation including the chromosome which determines the sex of the offspring.
Now, there are some non-mammalian species where things are more complicated, but for all mammals and quite a lot of other species, sperm mixes with egg to create zygote, and the sex of that zygote is determined by what the sperm added to the existing chromosomes of the egg.