this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I hope we all know this and are just doing it as a bit, but sometimes I do see shit on this website that makes me go “Oh y’all are genuinely just weird prudes”

The “gooner epidemic” is not real, gooning is an incredibly niche kink that very few people engage in.

“Porn addiction” is basically non existent and affects such a small portion of the population as to not be relevant. The idea that most people have in their heads about porn addiction is propaganda made up by evangelicals.

We do not live in an overly-sexually-liberated time. There is not an excess of sexual content or exposure to it.

Most of the time when people talk about “the gooner problem” what they’re actually talking about is a mix of two unrelated things, people living normal sexually liberated lives, and undersocialized young men that don’t know how to interact with people.

Sex is good. We should be having more of it. We should encourage healthy, safe sex featuring whatever kinks you and your partner(s) consent to. Don’t fall for puritan propaganda comrades.

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[–] psychoplantkiller@hexbear.net 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

First they came for the gooners, and I did not speak up, for I was not a gooner.

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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 37 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh shit new bear thread with more comments than votes fuck yeah gotta pull this up on my middle goon cave monitor for some background reading

For real though fuck this site for teaching me what a gooner is you can all go to hell for that one

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 21 points 8 hours ago

pull this up on my middle goon cave monitor for some background reading

so there I was, gooning to my hexbear threads when

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I think there are super healthy and important conversations that should be had society-wide about more openness to sexuality. I think peoples' problems with porn almost entirely exist because there is so little conversation and openness to it in everyday life. Porn becomes everything a person knows or thinks about sex because it's the only place you learn or talk about it in any way.

I do think it'd be neat if this site had some enclosed space for NSFW chats, but it's also not a priority. If it's a binary choice, I'd prefer it be a creep-free zone.

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 29 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (16 children)

“Oh y’all are genuinely just weird prudes”

Hmm some people maybe

The “gooner epidemic” is not real, gooning is an incredibly niche kink that very few people engage in.

That's true

“Porn addiction” is basically non existent and affects such a small portion of the population as to not be relevant

That's NOT true

We do not live in an overly-sexually-liberated time.

Agree

There is not an excess of sexual content or exposure to it.

I strongly disagree, I think boys these days get exposed, and expose themselves, to sexual content far more than even when I was young

Sex is good. We should be having more of it. We should encourage healthy, safe sex featuring whatever kinks you and your partner(s) consent to.

Yes

BTW Let's tone things down, struggle session over GOONING is wild, people

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

BTW Let's tone things down, struggle session over GOONING is wild, people

not too surprising, it's getting everyone's libidinal juices flowing arguing about it, what fun

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 40 points 9 hours ago

volcel vanguard is just to keep people from being weird when nobody asked, I don't see a problem with it and honestly never would have even associated with with gooner shit if you hadn't mentioned it

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 40 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

People online be like "I just saw a tiktok, new opinion downloaded" and go from there.

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