'Phallic gesture'
"It's one of the most ancient insult gestures known," says anthropologist Desmond Morris. ... It is saying, 'this is a phallus' that you're offering to people, which is a very primeval display."
What is the meaning of phallic gesture?
1 : of, relating to, or resembling a penis. 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by the stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory following the anal stage and during which a child becomes interested in his or her own sexual organs — compare anal sense 2, genital sense 3, oral sense 3.
What is an example of phallic symbol?
any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
