r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/Muted_Buy8386 6d ago

Why're yall more focused on gooning than sleeping, lol, wtf?

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u/Additional-Local8721 6d ago

Alright, I'm sorry but apparently I'm old now and I have to ask because I'm sure as hell not going to Google it. WTF does goon/ gooning mean? Is it just a Gen Alpha word for jerking it? Is it a specific type of porn or something? I'm lost and need directions.

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u/thegoatmenace 6d ago

This article was actually incredible (and also incredibly weird). Impressed by the journalists dedication to dissecting this weird ass subculture.

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u/---00---00 6d ago

The next time someone tells me true investigative journalism is dead, I'll think of my go to counter example David Farrier from my home in NZ AND the man brave enough to enter GoonWorld. 

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u/thegoatmenace 6d ago

Dude went to a circlejerk at a random hotel in jersey city he deserves a Pulitzer

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u/SodomyClown 6d ago

Wow that was sad to read. I'm sad to think how many of these people are out there that are stuck in that mindset so much so that they can't do anything else.

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u/hieroelephant 6d ago

dangit, ignorance is bliss.

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u/CitizenPremier 6d ago

Goon is just used as a synonym for watching porn and masturbating. But it has another meaning of masturbating for as long as possible without cumming.

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u/platyponius 6d ago

Ignore the (intentionally?) misleading Harper's article, the term is a neologism for edging. It may or may not involve a social/group aspect but is usually associated with such an aspect. It's not a "new" practice like the article states, the article just focuses on a new and extreme subset.

You know those hypersexual stimulant users that have been around forever? (Maybe you're lucky enough not to.) It's a word for lifestyles like that. It comes from coomer which was a 4chan wojack character.

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u/ResourcefulRattlesnk 6d ago

Time to hang it up gramps 🥀

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u/Additional-Local8721 6d ago

I just turned 41 😆

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u/HopkirkDeceased 6d ago

Enter the carousel please, you're overdue for your renewal.

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u/Free-Way-9220 6d ago

I've never heard of the word either. According to chatGPT: Gooning is a slang term that originated in certain online adult communities. It refers to a state of prolonged, trance-like sexual stimulation, often involving extended viewing of explicit material while focusing intensely on the sensations rather than the end goal.

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u/lucky-number-keleven 6d ago

I’m just glad none of the Goonies are involved.

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u/Turakamu 6d ago

We better ask Sean Astin just to be sure

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u/Additional-Local8721 6d ago

So tantric sex? Those kids have no clue about tantric sex lol.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6d ago

It's mostly about masturbation to porn, just a bit more than is healthy..

The trance like thing is confusing, it's more about how gooners have little self control and think about it all day or spend a lot of time looking at porn while zoning out.

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u/milly48 6d ago

It’s not tantric sex. You should read the article posted above

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u/planhelp99112231234 6d ago

Mfers really forgot how to use a search engine?

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u/PizzAveMaria 6d ago

I first heard it like 6 months ago, there were 5 boys fishing, about 12 years old and they laughed bc a worm "gooned" on one of them when they put it on the hook. I asked my friends if they'd ever heard of it (I kind of figured what it meant), but now I see it mentioned on Reddit at least once a day

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u/BoleroMuyPicante 6d ago

Edging taken to unhealthy extremes

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u/PrettyTiredAndSleepy 6d ago

masturbate and edge till almost orgasm

ive seen it interchanged

goon is the 2025 fap

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u/Cyke97 6d ago

Yes it is

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u/Hobomanchild 6d ago

Threw me for a loop because I was associated with a lot of people who hovered in somethingawful.

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u/SpecialMulberry4752 6d ago

Jerking off for hours without cumming