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Also known as Goatse

goatse.cx ( , ; "goat sex"), often spelled without the .cx top-level domain as Goatse, is an internet domain that originally housed an Internet shock site. Its front page featured a picture entitled , showing an image of a hunched-over naked man using both hands to stretch open his anus and present his red rectum lit by the camera flash, revealing his anal canal.

Key facts

Website.name
goatse.cx
Website.commercial
No
Website.type
Shock site
Website.language
English
Website.dissolved
2004
Website.registration
None
Website.launch_date
1999
Website.current_status
Defunct (but has mirrors)

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goatse.cx ( , ; "goat sex"), often spelled without the .cx top-level domain as Goatse, is an internet domain that originally housed an Internet shock site. Its front page featured a picture entitled , showing an image of a hunched-over naked man using both hands to stretch open his anus and present his red rectum lit by the camera flash, revealing his anal canal.

The photo became an Internet meme, and has been used in bait-and-switch pranks, prevention of hot-linking in a hostile manner, and defacement of websites, in order to provoke extreme reactions. Even though the image from the site was taken down in January 2004, mirror websites are widespread.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “goatse.cx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.