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Facts of Life is a euphemism. It is used to refer to the fact that, ignoring modern medical interventions, for all larger animals including humans, penile erection, copulation and ejaculation leads to pregnancy and that copulation, etc. is a prerequisite to pregnancy. It is sometimes referred to as "talking about the birds and the bees" or more simply "where babies come from". A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ...
Pregnancy Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ...
Usage
The term arose as a convenient means for adults to refer to the rite of passage where they privately inform children that in order for any person to have offspring, they must engage in copulation with an fertile member of the opposite sex. Such a rite of passage may also include many other related sexual matters such as hygiene, prophylaxis, sexuality, orgasm and even to parental and marital responsibility and satisfaction. Urban parents have been more likely to provide this information as news to their children, as almost all actual copulation activity in an urban setting is concealed, but images of human copulation on the Internet may be diminishing or even reversing that skew. Prophylaxis refers to any medical or public health procedure whose purpose is to prevent, rather than treat or cure, disease. ...
Look up Sex on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A sex is one of two specimen categories of species that recombine their genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called genetic recombination. ...
An orgasm (from Greek orgasmos, from orgainein - to swell, be lustful), also known as a sexual climax, is a pleasurable physical, psychological or emotional response to prolonged sexual stimulation. ...
In many settings such a discussion might cause both parties discomfort because
- The adult might feel that the child is too emotionally immature for this information or that the discussion might lead to this child's sexual promiscuity.
- If news, the child may find such information to be disgusting. They may also recognize that their own parents copulate, which is a subject that is almost universally uncomfortable for people.
- As animals are often first presented as a model, both parties may cognate that the distinction between humans and animals is contrieved, perhaps even in a religious sense. The vast array of biological analogy as one contemplates erotic sensuality may even trigger a young person to spontaneously recognize civilization's profound anthropomorphological tendencies and trigger one's first critical review of one's assumptions about the existence a personal creator of the universe. In addition, both parties may have difficulties in attempting to frame copulation in some sense of appropriateness or morality. More simply, under what circumstances it may be good or evil.
Depending on the style of parent, one might even include issues of sexual disfunction, such as circumcision, phimosis and even Viagra. Circumcision is the removal of some or all of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis. ...
Phimosis is a medical condition in which the foreskin of the penis of an uncircumcised male cannot be fully retracted. ...
Sildenafil citrate, sold under the name Viagra, is a drug used to treat male erectile dysfunction (impotence), developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. ...
The term was famously used in this sense in the Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita where the high school psychologist suddenly asks, with a German accent, the main character "We are vundering if anybody instructed Lolita in the vacts of life?". [1] Lolita Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. ...
The phrase's usage has broadened to refer to other responsibilities or other realities that one is trying to avoid or simply has avoided learning or acknowledging, especially to protend a frank and open discussion that may lead to ambivalent feelings, such as about divorce, death or competition amongst humans.
As an ambiguous euphemism Being euphemism of vagueness, it can refer to almost any substantial subject, or to reproductive acts, or some combination thereof, pun often intended.
Movies that use the euphemistic phrase:
Television series: The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people. ...
Books that use the phrase as a euphemism or in a different sense: The Facts of Life was a sitcom which ran on the NBC network from 1979 to 1988. ...
- The Facts of Life : A Novel ISBN 0743463420
Basic diagrams Image File history File links Download high resolution version (535x882, 185 KB) Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman (c. ...
Leonardo da Vinci (Born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, and died in May 2, 1519 in Cloux, France) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. ...
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Katsushika Hokusai, The Adonis Plant (Fukujusô) Woodblock, set of 12, ôban ca. ...
See also Sex education is education about sexual reproduction in human beings, sexual intercourse and other aspects of human sexual behavior. ...
It has been suggested that Sexual penetration be merged into this article or section. ...
Bibliography Many volumes review the Facts of Life, most targeting both adolescents and parents. Such books are often banned from secondary schools in an attempt by parents and teachers to retain control of the information. - It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris ISBN 1564021599
- The facts of life (book) by R. D Laing, Publisher: Allen Lane (1976) ISBN 0713910151
- What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras ISBN 1557044430
- What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras ISBN 1557044449
- Where Did I Come from? (2000) by Peter Mayle ISBN 0818402539
- What's Happening to Me? (2000) by Peter Mayle ISBN 0818403128
Lynda Madaras is a schoolteacher in New York City. ...
Lynda Madaras is a schoolteacher in New York City. ...
Peter Mayle (born 1939) is a British-born author most famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. ...
Peter Mayle (born 1939) is a British-born author most famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. ...
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