Valerie Schultz

Valerie Schultz

 Courtesy of Valerie Schultz

The fact that we can make babies is insanely magical and utterly mundane at the same time. Every species procreates in its particular way in order to sustain its existence and propel it into the future: I like that the reference to sex education as teaching about "the birds and the bees" is both literal and metaphorical. To quote the immortal Cole Porter, "Even educated fleas do it."

Maybe the way humans reproduce seems miraculous because we have the mental capacity to think about it, choose it, and rhapsodize about it.

Email contributing columnist Valerie Schultz at vschultz22@gmail.com. The views expressed here are her own.