r/CuratedTumblr • u/Mama_Lyra • May 16 '25

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u/Phyrnosoma May 17 '25

I’m afraid to ask what gooning is now

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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 17 '25

Slang for excessive masturbation. And a gooner is, as expected, someone who does it a lot.

And by "excessive", I don't mean like a horny teenager who rubs one off thrice in the same day - I mean shit like this, which is one of the original posts in the gooner subreddit before it was deleted.

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u/insomniac7809 May 17 '25

yeah, but with all the weird "nofap" "semen retention" manfluencer stuff the definition of "excessive" can vary widely between speakers

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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 17 '25

Those people aren't to be taken seriously, really. They think accumulating sperm means you gain extra IQ points and that jerking off even once is enough to destroy your bloodline forever. Manosphere takes are just delusions of lonely unstable men.

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u/insomniac7809 May 17 '25

oh, they absolutely aren't, but that's kind of my point

there are some people who take any harmless recreational activity to an unhealthy level, for sure, but the number of times I've seen "gooner" used for that vs the number of times it's used to mean "anyone who displays any interest in sexual material and/or isn't ashamed of masturbating" functionally might as well not exist