The middle finger is one of our species' oldest and most ubiquitous insulting gestures. But why is waving one of your fingers offensive? David Clark answered this question for us back in 2009, and ...

Naughty Grecians likely developed the phallic gesture around 2,500 years ago to offend each other. Here’s how the middle finger became the most obscene digit.

Giving the middle finger may not be nice, but it is people’s “God-given” right, a Canadian judge has ruled in clearing a man of harassment charges in a neighbors’ quarrel.

These seemingly innocuous hand gestures are rude in other countries. Skip to main content. ... The fig hand gesture consists of a fist with the thumb wedged between the index and middle fingers.

He asked whether the fingers in the images on display belonged to middle-aged people and was surprised to learn that they were the fingers of students aged 13 to 18. In the exhibition space, Qiao also ...