Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.
Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.
Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.
So it really is quite different.
If young people have a tendency to always say “gooning” for any kind of masturbation (which I think is probably true) then that’s likely because:
It’s a generational neologism and people like owning and using words that belong to their age group
It sounds less formal and more fun
A lot of the masturbation that young people are doing probably is actually gooning anyway, because that’s just what happens when you have an unlimited and infinitely varied supply of free Internet porn
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Gooning is their word for masturbation, but most kids that use that word don’t know what it means.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I made a helpful table
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
who said gooning requires visual stimulation? I gotta a too good of a visual imagination capability, sometimes it haunts me
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh. I didn’t know that they were different. What does the mental activity type mean?
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.
Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.
Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.
So it really is quite different.
If young people have a tendency to always say “gooning” for any kind of masturbation (which I think is probably true) then that’s likely because: