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Goatse.cx is a widely-known shock site, with internet trolls heavily promoting (or secretly linking to) the site. The domain name of this site may be intended as a wordplay on the phrase "goat sex". Its front page contains an explicit picture (with filename hello.jpg) of a man manually stretching his anus and rectum to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand. He wears a gold ring on his left ring finger. On Urbandictionary.com, Goatse is purported to be an acronym for "Guy Opens Ass To Show Everyone".

The identity of the man is largely unknown, though according to some sources he is an Italian man who has been practicing anal expansion/anal stretching for years, as a hobby. The picture belongs to a series featuring the man demonstrating his anal stretching ability. 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. While his real name is unknown, he has been nicknamed "Bob Goatse" and "The Goatse Man". Another name attributed to the Receiver is "Yam Sthruss," originating from an email in the Feedback section from a person with this name claiming that hello.jpg is of him and asking for its removal.

Most recently it has been claimed that the Goatse man is a man named Kirk Johnson, a well known practitioner of anal expansion. 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.

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".

After complaints to NIC.CX (the regulation authority of .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.

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.

The website has at least six alternative locations - hick.org/goat/ (also 198.247.175.96/goat/), retropay.com/goatse/goatse.cx/, web.archive.org/web/20030623201150/http://goatse.cx/, synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/, and rokbom.com, which have the same contents as Goatse.cx, and goat.cx, which is apparently an older version of Goatse.cx. Both mirror sites are still up.

Goatse.cx has four sections, three of which have images of questionable taste:

  • The "Receiver" section, showing the picture (hello.jpg) described above of the man stretching his anus. Before the picture is the text in black, "The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!" It also has links to http://www.dolphinsex.org/ and http://www.urinalpoop.org/. It once had a link to http://www.biganal.com. The text below hello.jpg reads "IMPORTANT NOTE: There are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx around the web-- none of them are real, none of them are official. Do not buy this gimmick merchandise. The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon!" The title of this page is "Eh".
  • The "Giver" section, showing a picture (giver.jpg) of a man on a boat, which has been artificially altered (with XV according to the XCREATOR tag within the JPEG itself) to appear that he has an oversized penis. The title of this page is "Whoa".
  • The "Feedback" section, where e-mails are exhibited.
  • The "Contrib" section showcasing visitor contributions to the site. Contrib has additional variations of hello.jpg and giver.jpg, as well as other images and files. The title of this page is "Contributed Work". Warning: The page begins with an ASCII version of hello.jpg.
    • bush.jpg is a picture of United States President George W. Bush in his office with hello.jpg displayed on a laptop computer on his desk.
    • collage-holyzoo.jpg is a collage of faces of different people affiliated with holyzoo.com and thinkattack.com, and a closeup on the gaping anus of the man in hello.jpg. The image contains the text "Special Thanks for being there for a laugh. From your friends at http://holyzoo.com and... http://THINKATTACK.com"
    • goatse-wwii.jpg is a picture of a large snowball, with "goatse.cx" written on the side, chasing Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo.
    • giver2.jpg is a picture of the Goatse giver holding his oversized penis.
    • magiceye.jpg is a Magic Eye picture. After about 16 seconds, the image changes to that of a 256 color version of hello.jpg. It attempts to fool viewers by exploiting the fact that, although the server sends a MIME type stating the filename is a JPEG image, the image is in fact an animated GIF.
    • warning.jpg is a warning sign picture telling people not to go to goatse.cx
    • goatsex.swf is a Flash Movie, set to the hook from "MMMBop" by Hanson. The movie shows a large dildo being stuck into the anus of the man posing in hello.jpg. The background is from another gap.zip picture, gap8.jpg.
    • Goatman.mp3 is an mp3 Music file. It takes up 518 KB.
    • Foxy_goatse.mp3 is another mp3 music file, a parody of the Jimi Hendrix song Foxy Lady. It takes up 1061 KB.
    • goatsecx-winamp.zip is a ZIP file containing a Winamp skin. It takes up 313 KB.

People sometimes link to goatse.cx images not shown on the actual webpages, such as loopback.jpg, a picture of a man looping his penis into his anus. There are also numerous other files in the directory http://www.goatse.cx/contrib/.

The whole website contains an anal sex joke - that the Giver will be able to stick his oversized penis into the Receiver, and therefore, bring on highly pleasurable sexual intercourse for the two men.

The image hello.jpg originates from a set of 40 images depicting the man performing various anal sexual acts. In those images, the man used dildos and butt plugs to stretch his anus. The images were located by the Stile Project and are also available from the "Contrib" section of the goatse.cx website under the filename gap.zip. hello.jpg is the third file in the archive, gap3.jpg.

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.

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 but the site is being shut down in order to help prevent profit from the spam." Directly linking to hello.jpg showed a red picture of a red background with the text in black, "This site is temporairly down". Below it was text in blue that read, "Do not click any links".

When one goes to hick.org/goat/, he or she will see the text,
"ALERT
The CX Registry has shut off the goatse.cx domain suddenly and without warning.
They have cowardly cited a section of their AUP with allows them to remove sites at their discretion.
Please e-mail info@nic.cx with your opinion of this matter." Below that is a link labeled "Original page", which leads to the original "Receiver" section.

Geographic location

The site uses the .cx country code top-level domain of Christmas Island, where the operators will not disclose the registrant's personal information. The actual server of Goatse.cx is not located on Christmas Island, but in the United States and is owned by Hick.org, which is a website about computer programming. The Hick.org domain was registered by Matt Miller in Overland Park, Kansas. Both Goatse.cx and Hick.org originate from the same IP address; the server is located in the Kansas City, Missouri metro-region. Goat.cx, a mirror of Goatse.cx, is located in the Houston, Texas metro-region.

  • http://goatse.cx -- WARNING! Although the domain has been revoked as of this writing, it may have been reinstated and therefore this URL may take you directly to the picture described above.
    • http://www.goatse.cx/mail.html -- "Feedback" subsection with reader email selections. This page does not contain pornographic images.
  • http://www.stileproject.com -- originally located the image set. WARNING! This site contains pornographic and potentially offensive materials.
  • http://www.fc-uk.org.uk/goatse/index.html -- A satirical interview with Bob Goatse.
  • http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A20210/plp56/ -- Another interview with an Italian man who claims to be the Goatse Man. WARNING! This page contains pornographic material similar to that at Goatse.cx.
  • http://mjt.nysv.org/ has a goatse tribute section.
  • http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/ has a comprehensive goatse tribute section with many well-known (and many lesser-known) photoshoppings of the images from the site
  • http://www.roflmao.com/hatejob -- A redirect to Goat.cx
  • http://adult.pornparks.com/rosebutt/kirk/001/index.htm -- Photographs of a man named Kirk Johnson, who some claim to be the Goatse man. WARNING! This page contains pornographic material similar to that at Goatse.cx.
  • http://www.detroithardcore.com/lensman.jpg - Kirk Johnson's "Lensman" photograph. It was originally able to be seen from the detroithardcore.com main page.
  • See the official complaint (PDF) by an individual named Rhonda Clarke [1], the official note (PDF) to the domain's registrant and the current state of the goatse.cx whois entry.
  • Petition launched to bring goatse.cx back.
  • The suspension of goatse.cx was discussed in detail on Kuro5hin.
  • http://static.stileproject.com/rnd/fp/ripgoatse.gif - ?RIP Goatse? cartoon
  • http://linux.is.analdeluxe.de/ - The pumpkin picture

Parodies

References to Goatse.cx have become a ubiquitous in-joke in some Internet communities, many of which have created parodies of or tributes to hello.jpg and the other images on the site:

  • The following three parodies are hosted on Yahoo! Geocities.
    • http://www.geocities.com/bobmaloogakathy/frogsecx/receiver.html - The "Receiver" hello.jpg here is a Kermit the Frog doll with an anus stuck on it. The "giver" giver.jpg shows a man taking off his pants and exposing his pubic hair. "Feedback" leads to http://hanniballecter.blogspot.com/ and "Contrib" leads to http://darko.blogspot.com/.
    • http://www.geocities.com/electabuzz2002/lite.htm - Was originally like the Goatse.cx receiver section, but with hello.jpg replaced by the ASCII version found in the "Contrib" section of Goatse.cx. It has since been changed so that the "Receiver" and "Giver" are replaced by crude line drawings.
    • http://www.geocities.com/internetgoat/ - This website has the Goatse warning, and fake links, as well as a link to this webpage, with the worda "Thanks for the hits!"
  • The following parodies all originate from the same IP address, hosted in the Houston, Texas metro-region:
    • http://oralse.cx - The "Pussy" hello.jpg is that of a kitten, and the "Wiener" giver.jpg is that of a dachshund. Oralse.cx also has a "Contrib" section of more shots of the cat and the dog, as well as modified versions of the aforementioned pictures. It also had a "Feedback" section with its own letters.
    • http://analse.cx - This site has bunny.gif, which is a picture of bunch of cartoon rabbits, each with a pancake on its head, whom open their anuses in imitation of hello.jpg. This site is also a spoof of Hampsterdance.
  • Throatse.cx, another parody. For the "Receiver" hello.jpg, it showed a wide open mouth, and for the "Giver" giver.jpg, it showed an ice cream. The "Contrib" section had an ASCII version of the Throatse hello.jpg, and two flavors of the "Throatman", a takeoff of the "Goatman" MP3 song. Throatse also had a "Feedback" section. The site has since been taken down due to lease expiring.
  • In the tradition of oralse.cx and analse.cx ("anti-shock" sites that imitate shock/curiosity websites but do not feature objectionable content) is an Internet trolling phenomenon where people advertise non-shock sites as containing pornographic or shocking matter. Commonly, the actual website linked-to is an image of a family pet, a recipe for sugar cookies, the Olsen twins' website, or the rules to a card game known as Ambition.
  • http://trollse.cx — a parody of the front page of goatse.cx, replacing the original picture with a picture of JYA figure Eric S. Raymond. The giver section has a cartoon of two men. One of them is clothed and sitting down in a chair. His oversized penis is bulging through the crotch of his red pants. In the background are pictures of Something Awful characters Cliff Yablonski and JeffK. The "contrib" only has an ascii picture of Raymond. This website is hosted in the Washington, DC metro-region. The site links to Slashdot and Slashnet.
  • Xbo.cx, which had the Goatse.cx image altered so that it looks as if the man is covering his anus with a Microsoft XBox, and with a X-Box controller covering his penis and testicles. The page is titled "The Butcher". Others were "The Baker", which was "The Butcher" but with an Atari 2600 in place of the X-Box, and "The Candlestick Maker", which had the Goatse.cx giver with a joystick in place of the oversized penis. The website has been taken down due to the lease expiring, and was hosted in the Auckland, New Zealand metro-region. The X-Box picture (though not the Atari 2600 or the joystick) can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/20020526122729/http://www.xbo.cx/.
  • http://www.goatse.org - an illustration of Mario from the video game Super Mario 64 bending over, with the hello.jpg anus doctored onto the already doctored picture to show an anus to the viewer (The filename of the picture is mariotse.jpg).
  • http://members.lycos.co.uk/ferreousx/goats.gif - A modified Penny_Arcade comic strip that contains a extremly pixilated version of goatse.
  • http://www.pleaseeat.us - Shows a naked old woman in place of the hello.jpg picture.
  • http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/ - A gallery of Goatse parody pictures
  • http://www.massivewang.com/prime and http://www.penguinhosting.net/~jpeck/prime/ - The Prime Number Shitting Goatse.cx Man - a parody of the Prime Number Shitting Bear, with the widely-known hello.jpg image replacing the bear.
  • http://brentai.pyoko.org - "God is goatse-ing us" - an astral image whose details have apparently been modified to resemble goatse.cx
  • http://conese.ath.cx/ - A re-enactment of hello.jpg using an ordinary traffic cone. Non-pornographic.
  • http://www.evicted.org/~joja/beast.html - Shows a picture of a blonde woman in place of hello.jpg
  • bartse.cx - For the "Receiver" page, it has a tatoo of Bart Simpson from The Simpsons, placed around a man's belly button to resemble hello.jpg. The "Giver" is a picture of a bat with a penis. The "Contrib" section shows the original hello.jpg ascii, but with the text "bartsex" replacing "goatsex".
  • http://www.goatse.fi - This shows a picture of hello.jpg doctored onto a pack of Liggette & Myers cigarettes (The picture's filename is aski.jpg) with a caption in Finnish: "Irvistä elämälle, tupakkayhtiöt kiittävät. #work @ IRCNet" which means "Grimace at life, the tobacco companies thank you. #work @ IRCNet"
  • http://forge.evula.net/fc/fc_goatse.jpg - An altered Family Circus comic
  • http://www.redcoat.net/pics/couldsecx.jpg - A picture of the sky pulling a hello.jpg
  • http://www.digitaldfw.com/uberzine/hax.asp?clip=32 - A modified video showing a man named "Goatse" being elected as the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas
  • http://www.thinkattack.com/userFiles/replies/16899.jpg - A picture of Saddam Hussein stuck inside the Goatse man in an altered hello.jpg. The person who altered the picture commented about the picture on the Thinkattack.com message board "They found Saddam in a dark hole..."
  • http://www.thinkattack.com/userFiles/replies/16900.jpg - A modified picture of Saddam Hussein having his mouth checked, replacing his mouth with the hello.jpg anus and two hands stretching it.
  • http://www.klerck.org/dance.swf - The Goatse.cx dance Macromedia Flash program. The program first shows two stick figures dancing on a red highly pixelated "floor". Then, the music stops, and the picture zooms out to reveal hello.jpg. Also accessible via http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/5433/
  • www.cadaverine.net/misc/hello.jpg - An altered hello.jpg, showing the face of cartoon dragon blocking the man's anus
  • http://www.cellosoft.com/nash/garbage/photos/simonb-goatse.jpg - A picture of a teenage boy doing a Goatse pose. The photo has the goatse anus doctored onto the seat of the boy's pants.
  • http://ftso.org/cobweb/Images/Artsy/goatsex01.gif - An altered hello.jpg, with two green, straight lines intersecting at the man's right leg, to the left of the anus. The text in green, "Ask no questions Give no answers Pass it along... dat iz all" was added.
  • http://www.tworetards.com/issues/030123_13/images/iraqse-or.jpeg - A doctored photograph of George Bush at the podium, modified to show him holding a piece of paper, with hello.jpg on it and the words "Iraq" below the hello.jpg picture
  • http://isol8.org/index.php?topic=General&page=2 - A watercolor painting that has been deemed a spinoff of hello.jpg
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20010305142500/http://www.conhugeco.org/goatse.cx - Neo Goatse.cx, which has two sections - The Effect, which shows a picture of a man with a prolapsed rectum, and The Cause, which shows a pair of gap.zip pictures, the first depicting the Goatse man sitting on a large butt plug, the second with a pair of dildos inserted into his anus.
  • http://goat.se/cx - features a photograph of a cat with its tail raised, showing its anus. There are no further pictures or links. The URL of this site is one of two possible URLs contain only the text of the original goatse.cx, the other URL being the unavailable http://go.at/secx.
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