Editing Goatse.cx (section)

{{Short description|Internet shock site}}
{{Redirect2|Goatse|Goatsex|the computer hacker group|Goatse Security|sex among goats|Goat#Reproduction}}
{{Use American English |date=February 2024}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}
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{{Infobox website
| name             = goatse.cx
| alexa            = 
| commercial       = No
| type             = [[Shock site]]
| language         = English
| registration     = None
| launch_date      = 1999
| current_status   = Defunct (but has mirrors)
| revenue          =
| screenshot       =
| caption          =
}}
'''goatse.cx''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|oʊ|t|s|i|_|d|ɒ|t|_|ˌ|s|iː|_|ˈ|ɛ|k|s|audio=en-us-goatse.cx.oga}} {{respell|GOHT|see|dot|see|EKS}}, {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|oʊ|t|ˌ|s|ɛ|k|s|audio=en-us-goatse.cx2.oga}}; "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 {{mono|hello.jpg}}, showing an image of a hunched-over naked man using both hands to stretch open his [[human anus|anus]] and expose his red [[rectum]] lit by the [[camera flash]].

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