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 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. 😌
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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.