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is it just wanking? If so, why are people talking about it

Edit - turns out that yes, it is just wanking lol

Edit Edit - honestly, I find it strange that so many of these things have special words. 'edging' , 'creampie' , and now 'gooning'. These are all very mundane activities, lads

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 seconds ago

Originally it referred to the transition state between edging and actually cumming (cooming) where it feels so good youre "gone" (where the name comes from)

Now it means high levels of masturbation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

read theory https://gooncultist.substack.com/p/jerk-off-in-a-language-they-can't

I predicted that when the word “gooning” goes mainstream most people will think it just means “jerking off” and I still think this is the most likely outcome. Legibility confers high-level recognition but not empathy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's masturbation in quantities that people know full well is unhealthy but has been renamed to make it an identity and a point of pride.

This can be anything between those that spend 2-3 hours masturbating per day to those that masturbate for 48 hours straight non stop.

My personal belief is that it was intentionally amplified by marketers in the porn industry to bring it to mainstream in order to have this group of people grow as they're the vanguard of porn culture. Now rather than identify negatively with what they do they identify as gooners proudly.

The mainstreaming of the word has flattened its meaning into any act of masturbation being a goon session.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Think of the difference between wanking and gooning like the difference between someone who rides a bike casually and someone who rides a bike as a hobby. If you're really into riding bikes you get like the bike shorts, fancy helmet, shoes, lights, bells, fancy expensive bike, you ride you bike for hours not as a commute or to reach a destination but because you like bicycling. And then some people just have like a regular bike with no special outfits and accoutrement and maybe they just ride around the neighborhood for a little exercise. Gooning is like turning out the lights, multiple screens, lube, poppers, alcohol, weed, hour plus long sessions, multiple videos playing at once, hypnotic voice overs, all kinds of "extra" stuff. To put it bluntly if I'm horny and just want to finish and it takes like a couple minutes at most, that's not gooning. If I am locked up in my room for 2 hours getting crossfaded, flipping through dozens of videos, and edging a bunch of times, that's gooning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's when you're an Arsenal fan

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Gooning I think isn't real. However the goon mindset is real. All the guys who refuse to play a game without anime tiddies are that. Just soaking their brains in low level dopamine constantly through waifu media. This is better than other drugs but this is still just self medication to treat the alienation one suffers under capitlaism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

My daily morning goon sessions would disagree with you. Goes from 8am to 11am. Goon is lyfe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I have quite possibly been corrected

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Two-Face is gonna tear you in two!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

it's when you drive your car like an asshole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Gooning is to support London's Arsenal Football Club, whose supporters are known locally as gooners.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I thought ot was having multiple screen of porn playong at once and going on long sessions

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