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The birds and the bees
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For other uses, see The Birds and the Bees (disambiguation).
"The birds and the bees" is an English-language idiomatic expression that refers to courtship and sexual intercourse, and is usually used in reference to teaching someone, often a young child, 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 tradition, the birds and the bees is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and good consequences of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain example of male fertilisation. Another example, birds lay eggs, a similarly visible and easy-to-explain example of female ovulation.
Contents
1 Possible origins
2 Usages and popular culture
3 See also
4 References
Possible origins
Word sleuths William and Mary Morris[1] hint that it may have been inspired by words like these from the poet Samuel Coleridge (1825): '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.'"[2]
Even earlier instances of this idiomatic expression appear in the Cavalier poet, Thomas Carew's (pronounced Carey) work, "The Spring" (c.1640), in which, Carew uses earth and its change of seasons as a metaphorical depiction of women and their sensuality (The Norton Anthology of English Literature 1696).[3] To abet his ends, Carew alludes to the "birds in the bees" in lines 7-8 with the use of "swallow", "cuckoo", and "humble-bee" as seen here (lines included are 5-8): "But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth/And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth/To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree/The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee/Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring" (emphasis added; lines 5-9 from "The Spring").[4]
Dr. Emma F Angell Drake (b. 1849) wrote a section of a publication called The Story of Life which was published in 1909. This piece was later picked up and included in Safe Counsel, a product of the Eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. The author tells her daughters "when you discovered the tiny blue eggs in the robin's nest and I told you that wrapped in each shell was a baby robin that was growing there, kept warm by the mamma bird..." the narrative continues on in vague terms without actually describing sexual intercourse. Later she describes the father's role in reproduction like this; "Sometimes it is the wind which blows the pollen dust from one plant to the other, and sometimes it is the bees gathering honey from the flowers. As they suck the honey from the blossoms some of the plant dust sticks to their legs and bodies, and as they go to another plant in search of sweets this is rubbed off and so the parts of the father and mother plant get together and the seed is made fertile." Safe counsel was reprinted at least 40 times from 1893 through 1930 and may have been widely enough repeated to have contributed to the euphemism, "the birds and the bees." [5]
Several sources give credit to Cole Porter for coining the phrase.[6] One of the musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." In Porter's publication from 1928, the opening line for the chorus carried derogatory racial references like "Chinks" and "Japs", later changed following CBS recommendation and NBC adaptation:[7]
And that's why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Usages and popular culture
John Burroughs, a naturalist who lived and worked in the Catskill Mountains, wrote a small pamphlet called "Birds and Bees: Essays"[8] in which he explained the workings of nature in a way that children could understand.
Robie Harris has written children's works such as It's Not the Stork!, It's Perfectly Normal, and It's So Amazing, which have been the center of controversy and book challenges in the United States.
Another book that tells a non-biological version of the story of the Birds and the Bees is "Birds, Bees Babies" [9] by J.L. Sweat.
The Bird and The Bee is a duet group.[10]
In 1968 The Monkees released an album called The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees.
See also
Sexual reproduction
References
^ Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, by William and Mary Morris (1977). New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-013058-9. Cited in Where does the phrase "The birds and the bees" come from - alt.usage.english | Google Groups.
^ Work without Hope. EServer - Iowa State U.
^ The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th Ed. Vol. 1., New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. 1696
^ Vincent, Arthur, ed. The Poems of Thomas Carew., London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., nd. 1.
^ The Story of life, OS Davis, Drake EFA, in Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, Jeffries G, Nichols JL, The Southwestern Company, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 40th edition, 1930. pp469-486.
^ Where did the phrase "the birds and the bees" come from? Yahoo.
^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 December 1954). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 16. ISSN 00062510. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
^ Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, Etc, by John Burroughs. Gutenberg.
^ Birds, Bees, Babies
^ Duet
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see The Birds and the Bees (disambiguation).
"The birds and the bees" is an English-language idiomatic expression that refers to courtship and sexual intercourse, and is usually used in reference to teaching someone, often a young child, 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 tradition, the birds and the bees is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and good consequences of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain example of male fertilisation. Another example, birds lay eggs, a similarly visible and easy-to-explain example of female ovulation.
Contents
1 Possible origins
2 Usages and popular culture
3 See also
4 References
Possible origins
Word sleuths William and Mary Morris[1] hint that it may have been inspired by words like these from the poet Samuel Coleridge (1825): '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.'"[2]
Even earlier instances of this idiomatic expression appear in the Cavalier poet, Thomas Carew's (pronounced Carey) work, "The Spring" (c.1640), in which, Carew uses earth and its change of seasons as a metaphorical depiction of women and their sensuality (The Norton Anthology of English Literature 1696).[3] To abet his ends, Carew alludes to the "birds in the bees" in lines 7-8 with the use of "swallow", "cuckoo", and "humble-bee" as seen here (lines included are 5-8): "But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth/And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth/To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree/The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee/Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring" (emphasis added; lines 5-9 from "The Spring").[4]
Dr. Emma F Angell Drake (b. 1849) wrote a section of a publication called The Story of Life which was published in 1909. This piece was later picked up and included in Safe Counsel, a product of the Eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. The author tells her daughters "when you discovered the tiny blue eggs in the robin's nest and I told you that wrapped in each shell was a baby robin that was growing there, kept warm by the mamma bird..." the narrative continues on in vague terms without actually describing sexual intercourse. Later she describes the father's role in reproduction like this; "Sometimes it is the wind which blows the pollen dust from one plant to the other, and sometimes it is the bees gathering honey from the flowers. As they suck the honey from the blossoms some of the plant dust sticks to their legs and bodies, and as they go to another plant in search of sweets this is rubbed off and so the parts of the father and mother plant get together and the seed is made fertile." Safe counsel was reprinted at least 40 times from 1893 through 1930 and may have been widely enough repeated to have contributed to the euphemism, "the birds and the bees." [5]
Several sources give credit to Cole Porter for coining the phrase.[6] One of the musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." In Porter's publication from 1928, the opening line for the chorus carried derogatory racial references like "Chinks" and "Japs", later changed following CBS recommendation and NBC adaptation:[7]
And that's why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Usages and popular culture
John Burroughs, a naturalist who lived and worked in the Catskill Mountains, wrote a small pamphlet called "Birds and Bees: Essays"[8] in which he explained the workings of nature in a way that children could understand.
Robie Harris has written children's works such as It's Not the Stork!, It's Perfectly Normal, and It's So Amazing, which have been the center of controversy and book challenges in the United States.
Another book that tells a non-biological version of the story of the Birds and the Bees is "Birds, Bees Babies" [9] by J.L. Sweat.
The Bird and The Bee is a duet group.[10]
In 1968 The Monkees released an album called The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees.
See also
Sexual reproduction
References
^ Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, by William and Mary Morris (1977). New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-013058-9. Cited in Where does the phrase "The birds and the bees" come from - alt.usage.english | Google Groups.
^ Work without Hope. EServer - Iowa State U.
^ The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th Ed. Vol. 1., New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. 1696
^ Vincent, Arthur, ed. The Poems of Thomas Carew., London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., nd. 1.
^ The Story of life, OS Davis, Drake EFA, in Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, Jeffries G, Nichols JL, The Southwestern Company, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 40th edition, 1930. pp469-486.
^ Where did the phrase "the birds and the bees" come from? Yahoo.
^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 December 1954). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 16. ISSN 00062510. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
^ Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, Etc, by John Burroughs. Gutenberg.
^ Birds, Bees, Babies
^ Duet
How do i make dots on a computer.?
how do i make dots on my computer. i have been told that although this looks like a period (•) it is a dot. does any one know what are the keys that make it up. i have an annoying friend that think he's a know it all and this is one of our latest subjects. thanks for the help.
7 years ago
Report Abuse
Lelanophilus Lelanoph...
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
(•) Made by holding down the alt key and typing 0149 on the numpad.
You can use character map if your computer is a pc. Go to start and click run. First option above logoff and shutdown. Type in "charmap" and click ok. You can find any printable character.
At the bottom-right of the window when you select a character is the word "alt" followed by four numbers. You can hold down the alt key and while holding it down hit the four numbers (on the numpad to the right of the keyboard). Release the alt key and the character should magically appear.
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How do make sex
Put the damn plug into the socket. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Done.
How do make sex
Put the damn plug into the socket. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Done.
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Originally posted by Theo Wizzago
Put the damn plug into the socket. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Done.
3 times?
Put the damn plug into the socket. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Done.
3 times?
Originally posted by Theo Wizzago
Put the damn plug into the socket. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Done.
Just one repeat usually
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