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Mark Fox's avatar

It took me a few days to digest this one. Perhaps my path of recovery has instinctually flagged “gooning” as a clear and present danger to my sexual sobriety.

I won’t pretend the prospect of enhanced orgasms is not interesting. Much like David Carradine, the trill of that extreme climax haunts all real addicts…and usually ends with similar unfortunate consequences.

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Ethlie Ann Vare's avatar

Interesting to compare gooning to auto-erotic asphyxiation. I didn't think of it that way. There a new interview with the author of the Harper's piece at one of my favorite podcasts, Search Engine: https://www.searchengine.show/an-anthropology-of-gooning/

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