Fleshbot
Encyclopedia
Fleshbot is a sex-oriented weblog
, published by Gawker Media
. It was launched in November 2003 as the third online title from Gawker. The range of subject matter includes everything from amateur sex
blogs and thumbnail gallery post
s to news about sex in popular culture
and advertising
. The blog covers both heterosexual and homosexual erotica
and users have the ability to filter between the two if they choose.
Fleshbot is edited by Lux Alptraum (formerly Lux Nightmare).
Fleshbot appears on the ACMA
Blacklist (see Internet censorship in Australia
) that was released via Wikileaks
on March 20, 2009.
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
, published by Gawker Media
Gawker Media
Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. , it is the parent company for 11 different weblogs: Gawker.com, Fleshbot,...
. It was launched in November 2003 as the third online title from Gawker. The range of subject matter includes everything from amateur sex
Amateur pornography
Amateur pornography is a category of pornography that features models or actors performing without pay, or for whom this material is their first or only paid modeling work. Reality pornography is professionally made porn which seeks to emulate the style of amateur pornography...
blogs and thumbnail gallery post
Thumbnail gallery post
A thumbnail gallery post is a common type of ad-driven website that provides links to free Internet pornography. In affiliate marketing terms, TGPs are the affiliates that drive new traffic to the product producers, paysites...
s to news about sex in popular culture
Popular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
and advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
. The blog covers both heterosexual and homosexual erotica
Erotica
Erotica are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions...
and users have the ability to filter between the two if they choose.
Fleshbot is edited by Lux Alptraum (formerly Lux Nightmare).
Fleshbot appears on the ACMA
Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government statutory authority within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio...
Blacklist (see Internet censorship in Australia
Internet censorship in Australia
Internet censorship in Australia currently consists of a regulatory regime under which the Australian Communications and Media Authority has the power to enforce content restrictions on Internet content hosted within Australia, and maintain a "black-list" of overseas websites which is then...
) that was released via Wikileaks
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more...
on March 20, 2009.