{"id":19359,"date":"2023-05-18T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/?p=19359"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:34:14","slug":"gooners-goonettes-and-the-origins-of-the-goon-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/gooners-goonettes-and-the-origins-of-the-goon-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Gooners, Goonettes and the Origins of the Goon State"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"19359\" class=\"elementor elementor-19359\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55e5f21 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"55e5f21\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a515511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a515511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Gooners, Goonettes and the Origin Of the Goon State<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e17c8b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e17c8b1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ac0d13\" data-id=\"3ac0d13\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b31437 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b31437\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Mark Hay<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-426eca6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"426eca6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4742173 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4742173\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gooners-Goonettes-and-the-Origin-Of-the-Goon-State-1024x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-19540\" alt=\"Gooners, Goonettes and the Origin Of the Goon State zipper magazine collage art\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gooners-Goonettes-and-the-Origin-Of-the-Goon-State-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gooners-Goonettes-and-the-Origin-Of-the-Goon-State-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gooners-Goonettes-and-the-Origin-Of-the-Goon-State-768x300.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gooners-Goonettes-and-the-Origin-Of-the-Goon-State.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a13e944 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a13e944\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c424b2\" data-id=\"1c424b2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7088b81 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7088b81\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clips4sale.com\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VM-NEW-YES.gif\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-12703\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5108d91 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5108d91\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f62af9b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f62af9b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last few years, &#8220;gooning,&#8221; a particularly ecstatic sexual practice, has exploded out of the fringes of the erotic internet and into mainstream consciousness, courtesy of a wave of memes and social media chatter.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2022, the prominent porn star Angela White notably released a big studio scene <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avn.com\/business\/articles\/video\/brazzers-unleashes-sexually-rated-angela-white-15-guy-blowbang-908856.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">openly \u201cinspired\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the \u201cGooner fan community\u201d\u2014that is, people who engage in gooning. And in early 2023, Clips4Sale (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publisher and parent company) created a \u201cGOONING\u201d video category; a Clips4Sale spokesperson described it as \u201cthe first new major fetish of the 2020s\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/93k9gp\/enter-the-goon-cave-where-porn-and-masturbation-is-all-that-exists\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in an interview with VICE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet for all the buzz around the term, many people in the mainstream world only seem to have a vague grasp on what it means.\u00a0 On what gooning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or how someone <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goons<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c722afe e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c722afe\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bcb966 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3bcb966\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Because of the underground nature of this kink, not much is widely known or agreed upon, even among gooning aficionados\n<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de67b3e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"de67b3e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64106de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"64106de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>The State of The Goon<\/b><\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDefining gooning is actually quite hard, because it\u2019s different for everyone, really,\u201d said PornosexualDevotee,* a gooner who moderates a gooning forum with over 125,000 members.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But he and every other gooner <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke to agreed they\u2019re all united in their pursuit of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the goon state<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a level of ecstatic pleasure so intense that it melts away all of their inhibitions, self-control, and awareness of the wider world. People reach the goon state, they explained, by edging right to the brink of orgasm, over and over. Unlike with edging though, the goal of gooning is not to charge up a monstrous orgasm, but to live \u2018in the goon\u2019 as long as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGooning is allowing yourself to surrender to pleasure, and letting your body do what it wants to do in that moment,\u201d added a gooner and gooning content creator who goes by Gunnar.*\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few gooners consider this a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sexualhealthalliance.com\/nymphomedia-blog\/do-you-goon-boo-gooning-described\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">solitary<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinkly.com\/2\/8752\/sex-tips\/the-dawn-of-the-solosexual\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But most say that community is a key aspect of gooning. On forums like Reddit, they share gooning stories, encouragement, and advice, and on platforms like Discord (which is especially big with gooners) they also organize one-on-one or group virtual gooning sessions, watching the same porn and\/or each other, and hyping each other up while masturbating. Many digital communities also facilitate in-person gooning meet-ups, although not all gooners participate in these, preferring to keep their gooning a digital only affair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While many gooning spaces are overwhelmingly cis-male, Catherine Duffy, a cis woman who writes about her gooning experiences on her site, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoreuro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and runs adult industry consultancy Kink Consult, said that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goonettes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are growing ever more numerous and visible. Sally,* a trans gooner, adds that there are plenty of trans and nonbinary people in the gooning world as well. Anyone can goon, everyone <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke to stressed, and be part of the goonosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But beyond these core constants, gooners differ on everything from the meaning or significance they find in the goon state, to the focus or form they think gooning communities and practices ought to take. Some gooners describe the goon state as a borderline spiritual experience, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emmalillyofficial.com\/2020\/05\/26\/what-is-gooning\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">likening it to meditation or tantra,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for example. Others argue that, as gooning temporarily suspends any self-consciousness and deeply internalized stigmas and fears, it\u2019s a state of sexual liberation that helps people freely explore their sensual selves. Others still describe it as simple recreation.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some gooners believe gooning can involve the occasional <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/healthy-sex\/ruined-orgasm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruined orgasm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and that people <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/gooning-porn-how-to-goon-reddit-edging-masturbation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can and should cum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the end of a session. Others believe that orgasms of any form are antithetical to gooning, and will engage in orgasm denial at the end of and between sessions, all in the service of reaching <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs\/g-is-for-gooning-4fdd399980cf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a more profound and prolonged goon state<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Some believe that gooning can be a casual and sporadic practice, and that a session could be as short as half an hour. Others believe that it takes at least an hour to reach a good goon state, that gooners ought to try to go as long as they can\u2014up to days on end\u2014and even that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">true<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gooners goon as consistently as possible. Some believe gooning is all about masturbation, either on your own or in the company or with the assistance of others. Others believe that it\u2019s possible to goon in partnered, non-masturbatory sex. \u201cYou can also goon in someone\u2019s throat while they give you a blowjob,\u201d argued Gunnar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been told gooning can happen during partnered, penetrative sex,\u201d added Jason Armstrong, a gooner who\u2019s been writing about the practice for a wider audience since at least 2016, when he published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soloxexual: Portrait of a Masturbator<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cBut I have never seen that depicted in porn.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niche communities also focus their individual and shared gooning on one or more specific kinks or fetish identities\u2014on reaching the goon state via the guidance of a dom, for example, or through mesmerism. In theory, gooning \u201ccan intersect with every kink,\u201d Gunnar argued, as anything that gets you aroused and zoned in can help draw you to the desired headspace. So there is a staggeringly diverse array of gooning manifestations and sub-communities. One gooner, who asked to remain totally anonymous, went so far as to argue that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t put everyone who goons under one umbrella\u201d as that would \u201covergeneralize complex and fluid\u201d experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee3b4bf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ee3b4bf\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73e0ef5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"73e0ef5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/beyond-the-goon-cave\/%20\">Beyond The Goon Cave\n<\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a36fdea elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a36fdea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/beyond-the-goon-cave\/%20\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hand-300x78.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-8692\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hand-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hand-768x200.png 768w, https:\/\/zippermagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hand.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5d5eea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a5d5eea\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bc2f49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4bc2f49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>A Brief History of Gooning<\/b><\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve tried to research the history of gooning a bit,\u201d said a gooner who goes by Gooner-Tay,* and who runs a small but vibrant gooning forum. \u201cBut because of the underground nature of this kink, not much is widely known or agreed upon,\u201d even among gooning aficionados.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broadly, many folks suspect the practice of repeatedly reaching the edge of orgasm in the pursuit of what we now know as the goon state predates the emergence of the term gooning. No one\u2019s sure when, where, or why someone first coined or popularized that term to describe the practice. But many folks cite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=gooning\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a 2005 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban Dictionary<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> definition of gooning\u2014\u201cgetting so into masturbating, or jacking off, that the dude becomes a total goon; becomes stupid on his own cock\u201d\u2014as the earliest documentation of the term in roughly its modern usage. It draws on goon\u2019s early 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century American slang meaning, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a dumb person<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and puts a focus on what people who are deep in the goon state often look like: Slack-jawed and vacant, as unto a stereotypical goon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This focus on the image of a dumb goon seems to reflect a widespread (but not universal) focus that\u2019s developed among gooners on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goon face<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a visual representation of a person\u2019s descent into the all-consuming goon state\u2014of the loss of their senses and awareness. It usually involves going cross eyed and letting one\u2019s mouth hang open, their tongue hanging out and spit running down it or out of the corner of their lips, and is often accompanied by supposedly mindless babbling. (Some people just make noises like grunts and yips, Anton, a gooner who shares gooning content with well over 10,000 social media followers, explained, but others \u201crepeat genital-focused phrases, such as \u2018I love my penis,\u2019 which they sometimes stylize as \u2018penus\u2019\u201d.)\u00a0 Several gooners insist that they make this face, and these sounds, without thinking about it. But others acknowledge that they consciously affect a goon face, because playing the part of the goon helps them let go of their minds and inhibitions and get into the goon state. Some even buy mouth guards to help them \u201cretract their cheeks,\u201d Anton added, which makes \u201cmaking gooning faces more comfortable and different,\u201d more extreme than usual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great purge of Tumblr of 2018 seemingly wiped out several key early gooning communities, robbing us of a vital history. But a number of\u00a0 gooners\u00a0 we spoke to said they first encountered the term between 2016 and 2019, which suggests that\u2019s when it had a solid enough meaning and base to make gooning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a thing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rather than one niche term for an older, unnamed practice. They stumbled on gooning as a term, idea, and activity while exploring other kinks, fetishes, and sex acts there were interested in at the time, such as edging, jerk-off instructions (JOI), and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2018\/12\/bateworld-straight-gay-masturbation-meaning.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as hypnosis into primal or vulnerable states, humiliation and degradation concerning one\u2019s body or sexuality, and all sorts of submission and domination (dom\/sub) play and dynamics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke to seemed to assume that the kink that led them down a rabbit hole to gooning was the one that inspired or incubated the practice, and built so or joined communities focusing on that kink as integral to the meaning and practice of gooning. But others, like Gunnar, don\u2019t really see gooning as its own distinct kink. Instead, he views it as \u201ca practice that can be applied\u201d to any type of sexual activity. Sally similarly describes gooning \u201can umbrella\u201d term for a ton of distinct kink-intersecting approaches to reaching the goon state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gooning seemingly took off as a digital culture <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several folks <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke to explained that, during the lockdowns, they wanted to find new ways to masturbate\u2014to make solo sex more fulfilling and interesting. They inevitably stumbled across gooning and, rather than explore it through the lens of another kink or fetish, started searching for \u201cgooning\u201d specifically, then joined the communities that felt right to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile in lockdown\u2026 I found a popper training video,\u201d Anton recalled. \u201cThere were some guys masturbating and just huffing poppers. No big deal. But there were also some guys doing stuff I had never seen, which made me both confused and horny. There was a suggested video with the word \u2018gooning\u2019 in it, so I clicked, and there was this guy with ball stretchers masturbating while he was grunting and rolling his eyes. I found that video extremely hot and kept digging for more of that content\u2014which at the time was still very niche. It was difficult to find any gooning videos on regular porn sites. So I went on Twitter to discover a whole gooning community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rapid explosion of interest in gooning in the last few years has led to attempts at mass commodification that flatten out everything interesting about gooning. Goddess Lola Minaj, who describes herself as a goonette and makes content for gooners, complains about the overuse of the \u201cgooning\u201d tag for \u201csimple stroke and blow\u201d videos. And Gooner-Tay laments the rise of OnlyFans accounts and social media bots that overuse the term goon, but don\u2019t seem to understand it. \u201cThe syntax and context is all wrong,\u201d he noted. \u201cGooners don\u2019t \u2018goon girls. They don\u2019t \u2018goon on tits.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for now, this influx of faux gooning content hasn\u2019t made much of a dent among consumers, especially in the gooning community, which remains as wonderfully wild and diverse as ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64fe714 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"64fe714\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48e5e10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48e5e10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* To protect individuals&#8217; privacy, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipper <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0has changed several people&#8217;s names in this article, and\/or omitted mention of the specific communities they are involved in, or other possible identifying details.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the gooning content creators Angel Au Lait, Goddess Goldy, and Mistress Waltrude, who also provided insights on the gooning community that helped in the creation of this guide. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e6aced e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8e6aced\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4819acc elementor-share-buttons--view-icon 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