November 18, 2011 | Online

Wanna buy a website? Fleshbot for sale

Fleshbot.com, the adult erotica site that was part of Gawker Media, is up for sale.

"For the past eight years, Fleshbot has made its home at Gawker Media," read a note on the site. "But as [Gawker Media] has grown, its sales strategy and technology platform have ceased to effectively support Fleshbot's needs. We think someone else could be a much better partner to grow the site with us ... and as such, Fleshbot is for sale."

The owner of GM admitted this was something that should have happened a long time ago. When asked why he didn't sell it sooner, Nick Denton said, "Oh, I don’t know. Because I’m slow to realize the inevitable?"

Denton co-founded Gawker Media in 2003, which includes other online properties like Gawker.com, Jezebel.com, Gizmodo.com, and Lifehacker.com.

Although the other sites tend to be liberal in their approach to culture and society, Fleshbot was, of course, the most sexually explicit of the online properties.

"We seek a new home where we can continue to curate the best smut the world has to offer, and continue to grow our traffic (currently at 25+million monthly pages and 1+million monthly uniques).

We're sure it won't be going cheap!