more famous songs was "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." In Porter's publication from 1928, the opening line for the chorus carried derogatory racial terms like "Chinks" and "Japs", which were later changed, sometime between 1941 and 1954, following CBS's recommendation and NBC's adoption of the new "birds and bees" lyric: And that's why birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love In popular culture Many songs feature this phrase, or an extended version of it; "the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees". In Six, a 2017 musical about the six wives of Henry VIII, Katherine Howard has a song about her various affairs titled "All You Wanna Do." In the chorus, she mentions "birds and the bees" as one of the things that different men want to do with her. John Burroughs, a naturalist who lived and worked in the Catskill Mountains, wrote a small pamphlet called "Birds and Bees: Essays" in which he explained the workings of nature in a way that children could understand. Robie Harris has written children's works such as It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (1994) and It's So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (1999), which have been the center of controversy and book challenges in the United States. Jewel Akens earned one-hit wonder status with his Era Records single "The Birds and the Bees" in 1964, which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song went on to hit the Top Ten in several European countries in 1965 and would later be covered by many other artists including Dean Martin and Brenda Lee. American indie pop musical duo from Los Angeles The Bird and the Bee take its name from the phrase. In The Dick Van Dyke Show 1965 episode entitled "Go Tell the Birds and the Bees", Rob and Laura are forced to meet with the school psychologist when school officials catch wind of their son's version of the "Birds and the Bees". In the opening of the episode "Parallel Universe" of the British sitcom Red Dwarf, a song called "Tongue Tied" is performed, which features the lyric "I saw you across the dance floor (dancing), I thought of birds and bees (reproductive system)". See also Irreversible binomials Sex education Sexual reproduction References Euphemisms Sex education