Editing Goatse.cx (section)

==History==
The original photograph depicts Kirk Johnson, a pornographic model who participates in extreme penetration, which is the practice of inserting large objects into the anus. The image began to spread in pornographic [[Usenet]] groups around 1997.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Chen |first=Adrian |author-link=Adrian Chen |date=2012-04-10 |title=Finding Goatse: The mystery man behind the most disturbing Internet meme in history |url=https://www.dailydot.com/society/goatse-revealed-kirk-johnson/ |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US}}</ref> Soon after, a hacker group known as the Hick Crew found the image and began to [[Spamming|spam]] it in Christian chatrooms as entertainment.<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |last=Chen |first=Adrian |author-link=Adrian Chen |date=2013-04-16 |title=Goatse and the Rise of the Web's Gross-Out Culture |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/04/goatse/ |access-date=2024-07-23 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |volume=21 |issue=5 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> In 1999, a member of the Hick Crew using the handle "Merl1n" established the goatse.cx website to host the image so as to facilitate its spread.<ref name=":0"/>

The website gained popularity as a shock site, being described as a "[[hazing]] ritual" for the Internet in the 2000s.<ref name=":1"/> Following the success and popularity of goatse.cx, several other shock sites were created to mimic it, such as lemonparty.org, meatspin.com and tubgirl.com, each having a single shocking pornographic image.<ref name=":1"/>

On January 14, 2004, the [[domain name]] ''goatse.cx'' was suspended<ref name="CXAUPviol">{{cite web | first=Garth | last=Miller | url=http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/aup.noticeofcomplaint.pdf | title=Notice Regarding AUP Complaint Version 1.1 (redacted)| publisher=Christmas Island Internet Administration | date=January 12, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040531080510/http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/aup.noticeofcomplaint.pdf | archive-date=May 31, 2004}}</ref> by [[Christmas Island Internet Administration]] due to [[Acceptable use policy|acceptable-use-policy]] violations in response to a complaint.<ref>[http://cocca.cx/index.php/aup-complaints/cx-aup.html .cx&nbsp;– Christmas Island (.cx ccTLD) Acceptable Use Policy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519030617/http://cocca.cx/index.php/aup-complaints/cx-aup.html |date=May 19, 2011 }}. Council of Country Code Administrators. Retrieved June 15, 2010.</ref> A [[Christmas Island]] resident filed the complaint that resulted in the suspension of goatse.cx's domain name.<ref name="scotsman"/>