Over the last 18 months, the noise has grown around a new type of subculture, one rooted in onanism, masturbation, self-pleasure—whatever you want to call it—and the people who are doing it for hours and hours on end in pursuit of a near-mythical zen-like state of bliss. These are the gooners, the internet’s slick-palmed folk devils, and they have been getting louder and prouder about their strange antics as the media’s fascination with them has boomed.
But is gooning a bona fide community-cum-lifestyle choice? Or just an internet joke that got out of hand? Making her VICE debut, host Noelle Perdue heads to AVN—the world’s largest porn expo—for its first event since gooning exploded into the mainstream, to meet gooners, to listen to their fantasies and anxieties, and to get to the bottom of what gooning really is.
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