Gooning Communities
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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00:00 What is gooning?
07:08 Discourse around No Fap
13:08 Is porn more readily available now?
20:18 What is the kink aspect?
32:33 Should we be concerned about gooning?
53:09 Gooning statistics & community finding
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, have you heard of gooning? |
| 0:03.0 | Do you know what, goon-in? Yeah, it's a great movie. It still holds up, in my opinion. That's the goonies. Do you know what gooning is as a verb, like to goon? It's to go exploring in caves down in Oregon? Have you never heard? I haven't. Oh, you haven't? I haven't. I have never heard of gooning. No. Okay. Well, it's an internet thing. Let's get into it. What do you say? Let's do it. I'm perplexed. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I am your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor, and I knew what Gooning was. Who are you, Burrow? My name is Umberto Cassinea, and I'm an official |
| 0:38.1 | Oregon Spelunker. I don't know what this is about me, that I know what this is and you don't. |
| 0:42.3 | Maybe it's because I'm on Reddit more than you are or something? I don't know. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah. But listener Lexi, who is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, she |
| 0:51.1 | wanted us to talk about this article that came out last month that was written by |
| 0:57.6 | Daniel Colitz, Harper's Magazine, titled The Goon Squad, Loneliness, Porn's Next Frontier, |
| 1:05.0 | and the Dream of Endless Masturbation. Okay. If you were just to take a guess based on context |
| 1:10.7 | clues, what do you think gooning means? |
| 1:12.7 | Okay. |
| 1:13.2 | Gooning means it's someone that is lonely and masturbates to porn that is depressing. |
| 1:20.2 | Okay. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay. |
| 1:21.1 | So I don't know where it comes from, but from context clues and just my own guess. |
| 1:26.5 | I think it comes from the way you might describe someone who is looking at something. |
| 1:33.9 | Like you have someone that's in a zoo and they're just staring at the lemurs and they're just with wide eyes obsessively staring sort of in a |
| 1:47.4 | they're ugly or they're yeah they're they're like they're like a goon like oh I'm |
| 1:53.0 | I don't know I I I'm put this into words it's not making any sense gooning yeah but |
| 1:57.7 | but obsessively like staring yeah basically the way it's being used on the internet now is that it refers to prolonged masturbation sessions. Okay. Usually involving edging, you know, edging is. Yeah, yeah, getting close but not cigars. Right. Or, you know, just keeping the ball rolling even if you are orgasming. |
| 2:19.1 | And you masturbate for hours, potentially. Oh, wait, what? And the classic stereotypical, |
| 2:29.0 | doesn't that make you all raw? The classic stereotypical way it's done is that someone will have multiple screens with |
| 2:41.1 | multiple pornography playing, multiple tabs open, and they're over stimulating themselves, |
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