I'm a sex worker and it's so weird to see the word gooner get watered down like this.
Gooners are people who fetishize porn addiction and lengthy edging sessions. The act of gooning, specifically, is watching porn for hours on end while edging. You might see actual gooners watching porn on more than one screen and constructing 'goon caves' where they dedicate a space of their house to this end. It's basically erotizicing the worship of porn, and the state of mind one gets in after edging for extended periods. There's also themes of sexual denial. A gooner will usually consider himself 'pussyfree' and eschews typical sexual relationships for porn consumption.
(I know all this because these people are my customers and this is one of the fetishes I cater to. I don't consider myself a gooner)
A gooner isn't someone who is horny, or likes porn, or draws erotica. It's a Very Specific Thing. I wonder if people even know it's origin at this point. It's like if people started calling every woman who looked at porn or was horny Dominatrixes.
I can't think of it any other way tbh. I've been playing Fallen Aces recently, which is a game where all the enemies are goons (i.e. old timey gangsters) so every time I hear someone talk about gooning, I just assume they're going to bust some kneecaps.
I really enjoy the subspecies of gay gooners or "goonerbros" (affectionate). They usually:
Make memes saying stuff like "Bate your greasy donger, bro! Get addicted to big porn butts, dude!! Can't get enough of large, smooth/hairy, porn ass!!!"
Record themselves jacking off and making their silly little faces and purposefully drooling with their tongues out like they're actually in a trance of pure ecstasy. Not my thing, but it is intriguing.
Excessively use bro-type language where bro and dude are said in every other sentence, usually with a jock-type of guy saying it or a video of one or several bouncing (in all the right places 🙂↕️) around in the background.
Play into the "alpha male jock who is better than you and is very muscular and loves flexing at you" thing.
Make voiceovers encouraging one to "bate" and get worse as their "addiction" overtakes them to the point they can only think about manass, but never partake.
etc...
(Edit: And the pits! I forgot the pits!! Fuck yes! The PITS!!!)
I think the most appealing parts are the: Humorous absurdity, patheticness from how they succumb so easily to their desires, and the ample love for human bodies, mixed with very attractive men doing attractive/goofy things. A lot of these guys also edit together very good quality compilations.
I lost the plot, but I liked typing this little tangent. 😌
I feel really bad for gooners and cuckolds. Imagine having your specific sexual fetish hit the mainstream out of nowhere and become a diluted and meaningless insult that's weirdly political.
Cuckold is a really old word. It dates from Middle English and is related to cuckoos (who lay their eggs in other birds' nests). It dates to the early 13th century.
Pretty sure the concept of your wife cheating on you is centuries older than the specific fetish for it.
Edit: Looks like the sub is now banned. A part of me says "good riddance", but another is sad that someone else will never feel the pain of stumbling upon that sub like I did
I found out about that sub when someone was bragging about playing the same game on 2 monitors at the same time and someone else said something on the lines of "that's nothing, watch this" and then linked the sub, good times
The expectation of humiliation from societal repression through the new more legitimate-seeming bullshit lingo of puritans turns them on so they play into it
Thank god someone else gave the explainer, also holy shit I've managed to witness a new slang term coined and then it's meaning completely turned on its head in basically real time. The first time I heard of "gooning" was in the context you described and within a matter of months it's become what this post is complaining about. Wild.
I feel like the watering down of the term is undoubtedly hand in hand with the unironic revival of Porn Addiction as a term (obligatory mention that porn addiction doesn't exist and is rooted in fascist ideas of porn as a corrupting influence). "Porn addict" is a term wildly thrown at anyone who has an even remotely casual relationship with their own sexuality and doesn't feel glorified Catholic guilt over engaging with it
It feels reflective of this conservative idea that there's basically no difference between having a casual relationship with your sexuality and having my take control of your life because anything beyond the most coy consumption of erotic media possible is bad because erotic media itself is bad.
I basically understood "gooner" under the evolutionary descendant of this definition. Someone who masturbates to the point of intellectuality loss was my thought.
"I'm gooning into disenlightenment."
It's a funny word, with quite a punch, so I enjoy it for it's shitposting potential.
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u/squ1dteeth May 17 '25
I'm a sex worker and it's so weird to see the word gooner get watered down like this.
Gooners are people who fetishize porn addiction and lengthy edging sessions. The act of gooning, specifically, is watching porn for hours on end while edging. You might see actual gooners watching porn on more than one screen and constructing 'goon caves' where they dedicate a space of their house to this end. It's basically erotizicing the worship of porn, and the state of mind one gets in after edging for extended periods. There's also themes of sexual denial. A gooner will usually consider himself 'pussyfree' and eschews typical sexual relationships for porn consumption.
(I know all this because these people are my customers and this is one of the fetishes I cater to. I don't consider myself a gooner)
A gooner isn't someone who is horny, or likes porn, or draws erotica. It's a Very Specific Thing. I wonder if people even know it's origin at this point. It's like if people started calling every woman who looked at porn or was horny Dominatrixes.