If you’ve hung out on Femdom social media, particularly around online or clips only dommes, you’ve probably heard the term gooning. I’d always assumed it was just another phrase for edging and something exclusively kink / femdom related. Either that or a 1950’s British comedy show. It’s easy to get the two mixed up.
However, according to this Vice article, it’s much broader than that, encompassing mainstream porn as well. Men – and it always seems to be men – setup Goon caves complete with multiple screens and endless streaming porn. The article quotes a clips4sale representative calling it the first major new fetish of the 2020’s.
I definitely understand the appeal of the edge. Denial can be delicious, even if it’s self-denial. Not so sure about the idea of a goon cave, although I guess it’s no sillier than a space called a dungeon filled with equipment modelled after ancient torture devices.
Of course, some people lean more heavily into the denial than others. Take this lady for example.
All I could think of when I saw this was ‘Deserves got nothing to do with it.’ Captioning courtesy of the always entertaining Servitor.
Goon caves sound a little over-complicated. I manage perfectly well with a small laptop but maybe I’ve been doing it wrong? I was going to comment that at least a dungeon is a shared space, whereas no two people would ever have a conversation about their ‘goon caves’ – but then I actually read the article and I see they do just that. There are some very strange people around, Paltego… why can’t everyone just be normal, like you and me?
I was going to try for a Goons-type joke about denial – possibly suggesting that Milligan and Seacombe might have taken a boat ride along it while on leave during the desert campaign – but it’s too contrived, at least 60 years out of date and anyway, you just described me as always entertaining and I don’t want to call you a liar.
I tried for a while to work in a proper Goon show joke, but also gave up on it :-). They were way before my time, let alone most of my readers here. Also, not sure they’d translate all that well to this side of the pond.
People are indeed strange. You’d think they’d at least have the decency to keep that kind of behavior to themselves, rather than writing about it on the internet for all to see. No shame some people.
-paltego