How exactly are birds and bees used to illustrate s*x?

Question

I mean, do the birds have s*x with the bees, or is it that the bees "penetrate" the flowers, and the birds... I don't know what the h**l the birds are supposed to be doing?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I think that the term 'birds and the bees' is just used to 'allude' to s*x - in other words it was a polite way to say we need to have the s*x talk!!

Parents, who may have been too embarassed to discuss s*x, or were afraid that too much information would be be confusing, resorted to s*x as it occured in nature - never realizing that they were actually confusing matters more - since birds and bees do not reproduce in the same manner as humans.

On a lighter note, the phrase may come from the Cole Porter song “Let’s Fall in Love.”  which includes lyrics such as: “birds do it” and “bees do it.”

Finally, the movie "The King and I" offers its own explanation, in a speach by the king, which i paraphrase here:  "a woman is like a flower with eyes for just one man, a man is like a bee, who flits from flower to flower...."