What if you never stopped masturbating?

Gooning is a form of prolonged masturbation that can last for hours or sometimes even days. Attempting to

achieve a transl-like mental state through a total focus on arousal. And

while many people masturbate on a regular basis, the question of can you masturbate too much has come into focus as searches for the word gooning have increased by 800% in the last year. So

today we're looking at what happens if you never stop masturbating. Gooning is

adjacent to edging, which is when you masturbate with the intention to get close to climaxing, but then you try to hold off or delay your orgasm. But

edging is actually a clinical term that has a history in sex therapy, often used as an intentional technique to help with premature ejaculation. While gooning

premature ejaculation. While gooning tends to be more about the state of constant arousal, and is almost always linked with a massive amount of pornography consumption, labeled goon

fuel, in order to stay aroused for incredibly long periods of time. After

all, it's difficult to stay aroused for hours or days without external stimuli.

This hijacks the nervous system in novel ways unseen in the history of homo sapiens. One of the most significant

sapiens. One of the most significant impacts of pornographic binges, according to research, is diminished pleasure in life overall. When you binge pornography, you create a down

reggulation in the reward system of your brain. This is due to greater dorsal

brain. This is due to greater dorsal singulate activation happening while watching porn for long periods of time.

One survey on 100 Gooners found that they masturbate daily for two to three hours, but only do 8 to 12-hour masturbation gooning sessions once per month. But this can still severely

month. But this can still severely impact your brain and body. There are

four main stages of sexual arousal: excitement plateau orgasm and resolution. And gooning requires

resolution. And gooning requires prolonging the plateau stage. In fMRI

scans, we can see the orbrontal cortex continuing to fire, which leads to a state in which people have decreased fear, anxiety, anability to make logical decisions, to reason, and have decreased

social value judgments. This may sound ominous, but many gooners actually like this feeling and find it freeing. In

fact, in the gooning community, this is known as the goon state, a term which many describe as a meditative ego death that comes with masturbating for hours on end. The more you goon or hold your

on end. The more you goon or hold your masturbation session in the plateau stage, the more your brain changes. And

over time, the gray matter, specifically in the dorsal singulate of the brain, is altered, which changes your anticipation of rewards. Studies show it creates a

of rewards. Studies show it creates a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty. This manifests as

sexual novelty. This manifests as desensitization, habituation, and a search for more novel porn for longer masturbation sessions to satisfy your cravings. Essentially, it creates a

cravings. Essentially, it creates a feedback loop in your brain. The more

you goon, the more you want to goon, the more you goon, the more you want to goon, and so on and so on. On top of this, pornographic binges decrease connectivity between the preffrontal cortex and the amydala, which can have

serious impacts on your executive functioning. Increases impulsivity,

functioning. Increases impulsivity, causes cognitive rigidity, and the inability to shift your attention, interferes in working memory capacity, creates deficits in emotional

regulation, and causes your brain to have a preoccupation with sex and sexual impulses. These findings are reminiscent

impulses. These findings are reminiscent of other behavioral addictions such as gambling and even some substance dependencies. Even more pornographic

dependencies. Even more pornographic binges often lead to a decreased interest in having sex with real life partners as well as a decrease in erection quality, aka makes your boners

less hard. Other studies have found that

less hard. Other studies have found that what gooning causes in your brain leads to something called quantitative escalation. There's a fancy way of

escalation. There's a fancy way of saying it leads to longer and increased time spent masturbating as well. It also

leads to qualitative escalation, which means engaging in increasingly provocative content, watching fastm moving compilation videos, and moving frequently between preloaded porn tabs

known in the gooning community as hab jumping. This all relates to another

jumping. This all relates to another part of gooning culture, which is called feeding. When you send someone else

feeding. When you send someone else either through Discord or internet chat specific pornography that you love, keeping other Gooners fed with novel porn. The thing is, a study on gooners

porn. The thing is, a study on gooners found that while binging pornography and being in this hyperactive fed tab jumping state allowed them to feel excitement and pleasure while turning off thinking and emotions.

Unfortunately, immediately after the binge, the study found all subjects experienced negative emotions such as shame loneliness disgust guilt anger, sadness, and a sense of

hopelessness. Research into problematic

hopelessness. Research into problematic porn use or PPU actually found a really interesting correlation. The easiest way

interesting correlation. The easiest way to diagnose or know if somebody had problematic porn use was actually just to find out what their longest masturbation session was recently. The

longer that session was or the more likely somebody was to have goons, the more likely they actually were to have a pornography disorder and be labeled as having ppu. Now, problematic porn use

having ppu. Now, problematic porn use has increased significantly since co. On

March 11th, 2020, CO 19 was designated a pandemic and by March 25th, 2020, Pornhub views spiked by 24%. Other

studies also found that masturbation and pornography consumption increased significantly during the pandemic, with an increase in pornography use being associated with the severity of outbreaks. This all could be related to

outbreaks. This all could be related to how gooning or internet porn binges are used for people to self-regulate, to not have to deal with painful or negative emotions or feelings. Two studies

referenced how internet porn creates instant artificial happiness. The

temporal dissociation or translike state observed in the pornography literature may be a form of escapism. However, this

greater use of provocative sexual media for both men and women lowered their satisfaction with their partners in real life and it led to less time spent having sexual intercourse again in real life with their partners. What's

interesting is these studies found that a trigger for pornographic binge sessions are decreased mood, anxiety, depression, but then increasing the amount of masturbation sessions that you

do causes decreased mood, anxiety, and depression, which leads to the concept of porn being addictive, which is still hotly debated within the scientific literature. However, porn does fall into

literature. However, porn does fall into something called the AAA influence. The

three A's are one, accessibility. It's

easily accessed on your phone now. Just

20 years ago, you'd have to use like a dialup computer. A few years before

dialup computer. A few years before that, you'd be buying a magazine. Two,

affordability. For the most part, porn is free now. Again, not that long ago, it was expensive and you'd be paying for like static images. And three,

anonymity. No one needs to know that you're looking at porn. In the past, you'd have to ask someone to buy porn or to see where the porn was. Now, just on your break from work, you can just like go to the bathroom stall and watch it.

The accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of porn could be a reason why it's become a bigger part of people's daily lives, could lead to an increase in binge sessions, and see why more and more people have now become Gooners. One

survey on people who goon found that 1 in seven people admit that they need more extreme or niche content in order to stay aroused. 16% experience the urge to goon, even when they hadn't planned

to. 8% struggle to stop once they start.

to. 8% struggle to stop once they start.

and 7% report soreness, exhaustion, and a nose dive in desire for real partners.

At the end of the day, while masturbation is a completely normal and healthy human activity, extremely long sessions usually require pornography or other external stimuli in order to stay

aroused for that long, which can lead to some pretty severe habituation and sexual desensitization and ultimately have some pretty negative impacts on your life. Thank you so much for

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information is fascinating and they're continuing to publish new and new research on this as again this is becoming a bigger part of people's daily lives. So, we'll keep you posted on the

lives. So, we'll keep you posted on the updated scientific literature. Thank you

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