the birds & the bees!

here's a funny thought - you know how you always hear about the 'birds and bees' story with regards to sex ed and all that? well, one day it hit me.. that i'll be 28 in a few months, and not only did i never get that talk from my parents, but i still don't know what the birds and bees are a reference to!!! now put your hands up all of you who are with me on that!

so with that in mind i went to the all knowing oracle and purveyor of free information aka the internet, and it's representative Google. putting 'birds and bees' as the search string is quite useless.. because most sites here seem to assume that everyone knows what that enigmatic term refers to! so i started thinking, and as you all know, that has not been much help in the past!

the birds i assume refer to the girls of course.. as in "check out that hot bird!" or "did you see that chick?!" so are the guys bees then? umm.. buzzing around, stinging unsuspecting girls?! then again, isn't that bizarre? are you sure you wanna teach children about sex by telling them stories of inter-species erotica? is that really the right way to do it?!

then i read somewhere that the full story is actually 'the birds and the bees and the butterflies'.. and then i was really lost! wouldn't it really just be easier to tell the kids the truth, the whole truth and nuthin but the truth once they hit pre-teens?