I was doing a Google image search for someone giving the “middle finger gesture,” as I’ll call it, for professional purposes. (Yes, I have the greatest job in the universe.) Google allows you to narrow your search to images that are labeled as “free to use or share, even commercially,” which is handy if you know how to confirm that they really are free to use or share.
Anyway, amongst the search results, I noticed an image at Wikimedia Commons simply entitled “Middle finger gesture.jpg.” This title fails to account for two features of the image that seem important:
- The woman in the photograph is actually giving two middle finger gestures; and
- The woman in the photograph is completely naked.
I didn’t include any sort of “NSFW” warning earlier because, well, I like plot twists. Also, if you can’t deduce that a link that consists of the words “completely naked” might be NSFW, then I’m not sure an advance warning would have helped you anyway.
I guess the moral of the story is that anything on the internet can lead to porn.
(Side note: There seems to be quite the divergence in terminology with regard to the middle finger. I’ve always said that someone who gives you the finger is “flicking you off,” but I know other people who say “flipping.” Then there are all the variations of the euphemism “bird.” I may have to get more into that later.)
(Side note: The naked woman flicking somebody off to the right of the camera actually is an adult film actress, Jenni Blaze. This link is to the same image, and is therefore also NSFW. If you want to see more, now you know whom to Google.)
