When did "Gooning" originate?

[throwawayacct]

Suddenly this became a "thing" a little while ago, I started noticing titles/posts on tube sites, then the caption and hypno vids. For a lot of folks this gave a name to something they'd been doing already...long edging sessions and zoning out, gorging on porn and all.

If this is something that people had been doing for a while, I wondered if it originated with internet porn - as in, "Is this a purely modern phenomena?" But then I remembered my coming-of-age years, and the adult rite of passage of renting VHS from the back room of a local video store, and seeing "6 Hours of _____" video collections as rentals.

So did the *name* originate recently? Or did a word take on a new meaning?

I know, I know - my brain doesn't shut off, and I do a lot of traveling alone.

Well, a song in my music playlist popped up and it kind of clicked. "Goon" as a verb and "gooning" has been around since at least August 13th, 1991 - that was the date when the first Mr. Bungle album was released. On this...eclectic, art-jazz-metal-acid-funk album produced by the possibly-insane John Zorn, full of depraved lyrics and filth, stands out 2 tracks. TW: Keep in mind this band took the term "Hardcore" pretty seriously. GWAR would blush.

One, "Girls of Porn". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7x_uBcg3DE. This is definitely one of the most in-your-face disgusting tracks, on an album with another song's lyrics about fucking food ("Squeeze Me Macaroni"). But lyrically, it's perfectly describing "gooning" - "My hands get tired / my dick gets sore / but the girls of porn want more" among others.

But they don't say, explicitly "gooning". That comes AFTER - on the last track of the album, "Dead Goon". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLMVe2_a3xY It's a dark biographical track about a lonely and horny young man who dies accidentally from autoerotic asphyxiation. Not gonna repeat the lyrics here - it's triggery. Buuuuuut....it feels like an epilogue to "GoP" - both as a warning and a continuation. The "Goon" is deeply into masturbation in more frenzied and extreme ways.

So we have some anthropological evidence of "Gooning" predating the internet by a few years, existing in the cultural miasma somehow, at least in the late days of VHS porn. This could suggest it begins to coalesce a little earlier - if the 18 year old Mike Patton was writing about it in '91, it certainly had origins he had picked up on - not like a few terms coined by Dan Savage's community like "Pegging", which was essentially crowd-sourced in the aughts.

What do you think? Do you have any earlier examples of when maybe this phenomena began and was coined?

[goonparadise6]

Interesting question, and I will follow this thread. I am 52 years old, and have been around porn since the early 90s. My first understanding of the word "goon" was referring to kind of a stereotype of a large muscled dumb brute, usually employed as an enforcer for a criminal organization. Batman and Robin frequently faced goons when protecting Gotham.

In reference to masturbation and edging, I first encountered the term "gooning" about 8 years ago on Tumblr. There was a culture there of posting captions and sending "encouraging" messages to your friends to keep going, don't cum...and it was known as gooning. I had never heard the term before, but it matched my interest and I quickly changed my website and username to "goonparadise".

[throwawayacct]

Interesting question, and I will follow this thread. I am 52 years old, and have been around porn since the early 90s. My first understanding of the word "goon" was referring to kind of a stereotype of a large muscled dumb brute, usually employed as an enforcer for a criminal organization. Batman and Robin frequently faced goons when protecting Gotham.

In reference to masturbation and edging, I first encountered the term "gooning" about 8 years ago on Tumblr. There was a culture there of posting captions and sending "encouraging" messages to your friends to keep going, don't cum...and it was known as gooning. I had never heard the term before, but it matched my interest and I quickly changed my website and username to "goonparadise".

I, too, remember the classic action shows like Adam West's Batman, the 70's-mod-noir films and such would refer to the dumb muscle as "goons". And I think there's some linguistic origin in the term - "goons" were dumb, mouth-breathing, one-dimensional characters. I'm curious about when/how the term shifted - when I watched the old Batman series, it was in syndication (I'm mid-40's), and when I was a teenager listening to Mr Bungle, I imagined that the "goon" was a shambling lump of a person with no brain or agency - like the henchmen were. But in retrospect... it could be the song lyrics were indicative of a shift.

Sorry for the thesis stuff - I've LOOOOOOOONG been fascinated by "sex culture". Sex workers, porn, porn industry, fetishes, Kinsey, cultural references to industrial sex, solo habits and routines, etc. etc. are all things that spark both an academic curiosity as well as a personal one.

[forbiddendesire]

I believe it still is what you guys think, a goon is a big dumb henchman who only takes orders. i first came across the term in a sexual context right here on Milovana, in a tease (I think it was just called Goon Tease). It explained in that that "gooning" essentially meant edging until you're so desperate you become stupid and fixated on stroking/edging/cumming, hence becoming a mindless "goon". Which I guess makes sense