Timeline for "Birds and bees" origins
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 5:04 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 1:37 | comment | added | aroth | The connection with spring seems like the most plausible explanation of how the term came to be associated with mating that's been put forward. Certainly spring is the breeding season for many animals, including most birds. And also bees, I suppose. So an idiom for spring evolved into a euphemism for sex? I'd consider that plausible. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:35 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |