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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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[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago
[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Two-Face is gonna tear you in two!

[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Watching The Goonies on repeat every single day

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is not dead which can eternal goon

[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

"Do the truffle shuffle" means something entirely different than we thought in the 80s

[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

"one-eyed Willie" was right there

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[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Cranking your hog for somewhat longer than is typically considered socially acceptable, as a hobby.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

it's not a hobby, it isn't productive.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

it isn't productive.

volcel-judge it better not be.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Was that the now deleted comment chain about how all sex involves treating people like objects while you smear blood and urine on them?

That was an interesting message to see in the inbox.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For longer? So it's edging? Or more often?

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So it's edging?

Pretty much, just with extra steps.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

smh. kids these days gotta reinvent everything. chomsky-yes-honey

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that holding off the orgasm wasn't as important in gooning, whereas in edging its the whole thing.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Real gooning lore.

[–] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

I’ve just found out how much better a wank is if you do it slow, but not excessively so, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

[–] heresiarch@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

goon (v):

  1. to masturbate
  2. to near orgasm while masturbating but delay climax. see edging
  3. to practice a sexual fetish in which one consumes internet pornography that portrays the viewer as a "porn addict" who cannot stop themselves. see hypno
[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 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

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

If the Vice article is to be believed the committed gooners try and fill their field of vision with screens playing porn while they crank their hogs for hours.

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

(NSFW) The millennial to zoomer sex revolution

sexpat ---> passport bro
cybersex ---> e-sex
online dating ---> e-date
game ---> rizz
cake ---> gyat
doggystyle ---> backshots
fapping ---> gooning

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All these e-boys and e-girls going on e-dates, having e-sex

I just want a planned e-conomy

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

From what I gathered, "gooning" used to be a more niche sexual fetish in more gay spaces, where gay men would use poppers/other stimulants while self-pleasuring, thats where the weird grimace aspect comes from. Its now evolved into meaning self-pleasuring for a long time? Or just like being horned up in general? And having a porn addiction?

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's when you're an Arsenal fan

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

my understanding is gooning is when you're jorkin it but the purpose is to just lose yourself in the pleasure of the jork for as long as you can, but that's only my understanding through the literature ive been presented on the subject

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

it's when there are stairs in your house

or aren't stairs in your house

I think aren't? and that way, you're protected

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months 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.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

it's when you drive your car like an asshole

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