Tuesday, June 22, 2010

How does the story about the birds and the bees go? I know what its supposed to teach but...?

....Ive only ever heard about it mostly in movies and on television but they never actually tell the story, it teaches about reproduction right? How does the story go?How does the story about the birds and the bees go? I know what its supposed to teach but...?
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The birds and the bees'; (sometimes expanded to ';the birds, the bees and the butterflies'; or ';the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the trees';) is an idiomatic expression which refers to courtship and sex, and is usually used in reference to teaching someone about sex and pregnancy. The phrase is evocative of the metaphors and euphemisms often used to avoid speaking openly and technically about the subject.





According to some, the birds and the bees is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and consequence of sexual intercourse. According to that story, a baby is created when a bee stings a bird. In some cases the choice of birds and bees may be because they provide a ready metaphor for insemination (pollination) and childbirth (hatching). However it may be called the ';birds and the bees'; in that it is simply the facts of nature; many creatures have sexual intercourse: birds, bees, humans, and a huge variety of others.





';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.' ';

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