2006-07-05 04:18:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
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The significance of the birds and bees isn't what they do, it's simply that they do it, "it," naturally, being a tussle in the tumbleweeds, or wherever it is that the lower orders engage in sex. As such it's the perfect euphemism for a culture so prudish that even publishers of girlie magazines used to airbrush out the pubic hair.
Where exactly "the birds and the bees" originated nobody knows, but word sleuths William and Mary Morris hint that it may have been inspired by words like these from the poet Samuel Coleridge: "All nature seems at work ... The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing ... and I the while, the sole unbusy thing, not honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing." Making honey, pairing ... yes, we can definitely tell what Sam had on his mind.
The Morrises offer the theory that schools in years past taught about sex by "telling how birds do it and how bees do it and trusting that the youngsters would get the message by indirection." Right. Luckily for the perpetuation of the species, there's always been Louie in the schoolyard to explain how things really worked.
2006-07-05 06:17:49 · answer #1 · answered by tpuahlekcip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered that too.
I figured out the bee part, because flowers need to be pollinated by bees in order to bear fruit, but the bird part, I'm not sure about. Maybe someone else knows that one.
2006-07-05 04:25:19 · answer #2 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the bee pollinates the flower the bird drinks the nicture from the flower the flower drops it seeds and a new flower is born
2006-07-05 04:31:16 · answer #3 · answered by love_rainbowsexybaby_foryou 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you know, I have absolutely no idea!??!
I just told my son the truth when he asked me about where babies come from. he doesn't know the sex part yet, he is only 8, but I don't think it'll be long before his friends are talking about it in school. I know we were talking about it at that age lol and when he does ask, I will tell him.
2006-07-05 04:21:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
birds go tweet
bees go buzz
they both have wings!
2006-07-05 04:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by AlongthePemi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know either
2006-07-05 04:36:38 · answer #6 · answered by Mz. Tanning Bed Junkie! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I GUESS WHEN YOU HAVE SEX AND THEN BABIES AND THEN PARENTHOOD
2006-07-05 04:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋