What is the origin of the ';birds and the bees';?'; I don't understand its correlation to sex. Thank you!

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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.What is the origin of the ';birds and the bees';?'; I don't understand its correlation to sex. Thank you!
It's an old euphemism regarding sex talk (between mother %26amp; daughter or father %26amp; son). Euphemism is a generic word or phrase to replace a socially taboo subject or word.What is the origin of the ';birds and the bees';?'; I don't understand its correlation to sex. Thank you!
It is a reference to the realities of nature, but it is intentionally euphemistic.
I wish I could answer your question, but I can't. I am responding because I was wondering the same thing today.