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.

Canada Canadian judge declares giving middle-finger ‘God-given right’ after man was arrested for gesture 'To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,' a Canadian ...

This is what Reinhard Krüger writes in his book with the fitting title "The Middle Finger - A Short History of an Effective Gesture" (Der Stinkefinger - Kleine Geschichte einer wirkungsvollen ...

The middle finger originated as a phallic gesture The cheeky Greeks “probably relied on the use of the middle finger to represent an erect penis,” wrote Max Nelson, who teaches courses on ...

Morris has said that the middle finger we know today – the digit hoisted high in the air, other fingers bending to its will – represents a penis and testicles. “It is saying, this is a ...