Timeline for "Birds and bees" origins
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| Jul 31, 2023 at 2:23 | comment | added | Mark Ransom | I think it's highly ironic that most bees don't have sex at all, at least honeybees. | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 1:42 | vote | accept | aroth | ||
| Mar 28, 2016 at 23:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 21:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/714570541789802500 | ||
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:35 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 18:46 | answer | added | choster | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 17:39 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I remember it coming up in an old Beverly Hillbillies episode, where the daughter was approaching that age and her suitor's parents inquired whether she'd had the "birds and the bees" talk. Jeb was confused, as he'd given her the "courtin' and sparkin'" talk, but figured, being raised in the woods, she knew all about the birds and the bees. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 17:32 | answer | added | user66974 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think it had any currency before MGM's 1948 musical film Three Daring Daughters, which for some reason was renamed to The Birds and the Bees for UK release. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | My "birds and bees" talk, also devoid of avian/insectoids references, was not about sexual intercourse as much as about the mechanics of fertilization of an egg and what each partner's role was in the process. This was done in school by a travelling sex ed teacher who incidentally carried a plastic uterus in his pocket. Ewww, right? lol! | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:59 | history | asked | aroth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |