Another Sex Ed lesson

On our unexpected drive to SF to do our very first IUI we started talking about the phrase "the birds and the bees" and neither of us actually knew what it meant!! So, naturally, we got on Wikipedia and found the answer!! Then we thought if both of us didn't know what it meant, chances are you guys don't either, so here you go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

"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 fertilization. Another example, birds lay eggs, a similarly visible and easy-to-explain example of female ovulation.
Word sleuths William and Mary Morris 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.'"
Several sources give credit to Cole Porter for coining the phrase. One of the legendary musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." The 1928 standard contains the lyrics:

And that's why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Famous uses of this phrase come from the work of John Burroughs, a naturalist who lived and worked in the Catskill Mountains. He wrote a small pamphlet called "Birds and Bees: Essays" in which he explained the workings of nature in a way that children could understand.

So there you have it...now you know!