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Goatse.cx
.cx domains) by an office worker named Rhonda Clarke of Christmas Island, the site goatse.cx was taken down Friday, January 16, 2004. (Goat.cx and Hick.org/Goat remain active.) A petition has even been launched to bring goatse.cx back. The suspension of goatse.cx was discussed in detail on Kuro5hin. And on StileProject, a RIP Goatse cartoon was posted.
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Warning: Some links and content may be offensive to some readers.
Goatse.cx is one of the most widely known Internet shock sites. Its front page contains an explicit picture, hello.jpg, featuring a man wearing a gold ring on his left hand (and nothing else) manually stretching his anus and rectum to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand. Below the anus is the man's erect penis. The site is commonly linked to by Internet trolls in order to shock unsuspecting users with the image.
As of January 16, 2004 the domain Goatse.cx is no longer online, however many mirrors of the site are still available (see the alternative locations section) and the image itself has been posted at many other web sites.
Table of contents [showhide]
1 Etymology
2 Identity of the "Goatse Man"
3 History
4 Alternative Locations
5 Organization
6 Geographic Location
7 Parodies and Tributes
8 External Links
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Etymology
The intended meaning of the site's name is not known for certain. It is commonly interpreted as a word play on the phrase "goat sex", although no goats are involved anywhere on the site. An entry on Urbandictionary.com proposes the acronym "Guy Opens Ass To Show Everyone", but this seems likely to be a backronym.
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Identity of the "Goatse Man"
Despite widespread speculation, the identity of the man featured in hello.jpg is not definitely known. All that is known for certain is that the picture belongs to a series featuring the man demonstrating his anal stretching ability, probably created for pornographic purposes. Some have claimed that "he" is actually a hermaphrodite, and he is actually pulling open his vagina. The developer of this theory later admitted that the theory was false.
According to some sources the man is an Italian who has been practicing anal stretching for years as a hobby. Others contend he is one Yam Sthruss, based on an email in the Feedback section from a person with this name claiming that hello.jpg is of him and asking for its removal.
While his real name is unknown, he has been given many nicknames by various Internet communities. These include "Bob Goatse", "The Goatse Man", "The Receiver", "Stinger", and "Gatasa".
Most recently it has been claimed that the Goatse man is a man named Kirk Johnson, another well known practitioner of anal stretching. This assumption is based on the position of a large mole directly above the Goatse man's anus; the mole is visible in the same location in some of Kirk Johnson's photographs (see link below). One of his photographs commonly used as a shock site is Lensman.jpg, in which he is posing in a similar manner to the Goatse.cx photo. It was found by users of the forums at Penny Arcade.
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History
According to webarchive, hello.jpg was given the caption "stinger". From June to July 2000, the site was replaced for that period with the text "What are you doing here?". The title at the time was "ten seconds down".
For Halloween 2003, the picture was changed to an image of the picture carved into a pumpkin. The other sections (and the mirror sites) weren't altered.
Goatse.cx once had an IRC server located at irc.goatse.cx, which showed the ASCII hello.jpg in the MOTD. The server was part of the IRC network Evolnet.
After complaints to NIC.CX (the regulation authority of
For a period in February 2004, the website Goat.cx displayed the message "This site has been shutdown temporarily due to a spam that references it. The spam was not sent out by the sites owner
Why so many .com???