The birds and the bees, to the point!?

Question

I just want to know what birds and bees have to do with sex? Why do people refer to them when they talk about it, I just want a simple explination. I know about sex so you don't have to explain that, I just want to know the symbolization of the birds and bees. Please.

Answer 1

I believe you are asking where the Term "The Birds and the Bee's" came from, Right?

This is what I found.

Several sources give credit to the great Cole Porter for coining the phrase. One of the legendary musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It." The 1928 standard contains the lyrics:

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

World Wide Words goes on to explain that the first "explicit use of the phrase" didn't occur until 1939. An article on filmmaking from the Freeport Journal Standard stated: "A Frenchman was born sophisticated: he knows about the birds and the bees." Hey, hey -- vive la France!

The Straight Dope believes poet Samuel Coleridge was the likely originator. His poem, the cheerfully titled "Work Without Hope," opens with:

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--

In other words, when the birds start moving and the bees start grooving, it's on like Donkey Kong.

While there's no real consensus on how the term came about, most folks cite Mr. Porter.

~faith