this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
46 points (100.0% liked)

askchapo

22995 readers
192 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

  1. Posts must ask a question.

  2. If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.

  3. Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.

  4. Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Two-Face is gonna tear you in two!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Watching The Goonies on repeat every single day

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is not dead which can eternal goon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

"one-eyed Willie" was right there

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why does a hobby need to be productive? That idea reeks of capitalist grindset bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

they're referencing the other struggle session that happened yesterday

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Threads like those always make me second-guess what sorts of things someone on this site might say in complete earnest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

same, it's been a rough few days for my autistic ass lol

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Everything I know about sex, I learned from abstinence-only Christian fundamentalists"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Me (to my wife): I love you so much, if this moment stretched out forever it still wouldn't be enough time in your arms.

Random internet commentator: W̸̵͉̻͖͋̽̀Ḧ̴̴̟͎̘́̀͐E̵̵̡̟̘͌̐͝R̸̵̢͓͍͛͆͘E̴̴̙̫͓͑͑̚ P̴̵͔̪̫̿͆͘Ì̴̸͙͙̞͘͝S̸̴͕͓̫̽̚͝S̵̵̡̪͚͐͛̈́?̵̵̠̙͕̓̕̚?̴̴̦̟̻̀͠͝?̵̵̺̙̿͋͋,̵̴͖̘̼̈́̒͠ agony-turbo

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

So it's edging?

Pretty much, just with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Real gooning lore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

I just want a planned e-conomy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days 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
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

#3 makes me think its sudden explosion in popular discourse is akin to the conservative panic over raceplay: taking a weird niche porn category and treating it like nonfiction so one can hold it up as proof of how "d-generate" society is.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I cannot emphasize enough that you are 100% correct and that some of the people assuming that there are large groups of people actually living out this niche fetish are on this website with us.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

my 2 cents: most people are using it as a replacement for the word "pervert". it's why everyone calls those gamers who whine about how the woke left is forcing unattractive women into their video games gooners, i think in the past people would have just called them perverts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 17 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's when you're an Arsenal fan

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days 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

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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] 5 points 2 days 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

load more comments
view more: next ›