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Inside the Goonerverse

October 31, 2025·26 min·2 clips

Daniel Kulitz describes a secret hotel event where men overdose on pornography together.

Journalist Daniel Kulitz investigates the online subculture of gooning, where men engage in prolonged, communal masturbation through Discord servers and secret meetups. The episode explores how this community emerged from pandemic isolation, its rituals like feeding and wank battling, and its implications for male loneliness and content consumption trends.

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