Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agoCan someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a bird and insect?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareCan someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a bird and insect?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s not the origin of the phrase, since it dates back to at least 100 years before television
minus-squareFondots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoTrue, but fathers have been threatening their daughters’ suitors since time immemorial. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that it’s been used in a similar way for nearly as long as we’ve been using “the birds and the bees” as a euphemism.
It’s not the origin of the phrase, since it dates back to at least 100 years before television
True, but fathers have been threatening their daughters’ suitors since time immemorial.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that it’s been used in a similar way for nearly as long as we’ve been using “the birds and the bees” as a euphemism.
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