Shocker (gesture)

{{Short description|Obscene hand gesture}}

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The Shocker is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation.{{cite news|last1=Mauney|first1=Matt|title=Disney digitally alters 'crude' hand gesture in Rock 'n' Roller Coaster|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-disney-rock-n-roller-steven-tyler-gesture-story.html|access-date=19 August 2016|publisher=Orlando Sentinel}} The index, middle, and little fingers are extended, while the ring finger is curled or bent down. The index and middle fingers are held together. The thumb may be tucked against the palm or – in a variation on the gesture – extended.{{cite web|last=McKinnis|first=Alexis|date=April 3, 2008|title=advice – alexis on the sexes – Shock and ow – The shocking truth about a much-hyped sexual gesture.|url=http://www.vita.mn/story.php?id=17243159|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019060259/http://www.vita.mn/17243159.html|archive-date=2015-10-19|access-date=2011-02-16|work=Edition: METRO, Section: VITA.MN|publisher=Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)|pages=35|id=Record Number: 080403alexis0403vita}}

The gesture refers to the sex act of inserting the index and middle fingers into a partner's vagina and the little finger into their anus, the latter of which is presumed to "shock" them. If the thumb is extended, it refers to simultaneously stimulating their clitoris.{{cite web|last=McKinnis|first=Alexis|date=April 3, 2008|title=advice – alexis on the sexes – Shock and ow – The shocking truth about a much-hyped sexual gesture.|url=http://www.vita.mn/story.php?id=17243159|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019060259/http://www.vita.mn/17243159.html|archive-date=2015-10-19|access-date=2011-02-16|work=Edition: METRO, Section: VITA.MN|publisher=Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)|pages=35|id=Record Number: 080403alexis0403vita}} The hand gesture is not necessarily practical for the sex act it represents, however.{{cite web|last=McKinnis|first=Alexis|date=April 3, 2008|title=advice – alexis on the sexes – Shock and ow – The shocking truth about a much-hyped sexual gesture.|url=http://www.vita.mn/story.php?id=17243159|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019060259/http://www.vita.mn/17243159.html|archive-date=2015-10-19|access-date=2011-02-16|work=Edition: METRO, Section: VITA.MN|publisher=Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)|pages=35|id=Record Number: 080403alexis0403vita}}{{Cite news|last=Borden|first=Christine|date=2007-01-23|title=Not-So-Shocking News|newspaper=The Daily Californian|url=http://archive.dailycal.org/article/22706/sex_on_tuesday_not-so-shocking_news|url-status=dead|access-date=2016-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042259/http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=22706|archive-date=2013-10-22}}

The standard form of the gesture is known colloquially as "two in the pink, one in the stink", referring to the number of fingers inserted into the vagina and anus.