Birds and the Bees

The facts about sex and reproduction as told to children of a certain age. It is not known who actually coined this expression, but the first reference to the birds and bees in the context of children’s sex education appears in The Charleston Gazette in America in 1929. Before this, in 1928, there was the Cole Porter song Let’s Do It with the lyrics, “birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it” so it seems the expression may have been in general verbal currency in America from before this time. By the 1930s, the expression was well established on both sides of the Atlantic.