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Shocking Effects of Gooning on Your Brain · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: The word gooning has spread like wildfire on the internet
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  Speaker 1: and has become quite hard to escape. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what gooning is, it's actually the act of masturbating
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  Speaker 1: without orgasm, which is supposed to lead to a sort
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  Speaker 1: of pleasure trance. This topic is quite taboo, so people
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  Speaker 1: are hesitant to discuss it. You might not even realize
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  Speaker 1: how this topic affects you, largely due to the lack
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  Speaker 1: of available resources. That's why we want to raise awareness
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  Speaker 1: by creating this video. With more insights, we hope to
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  Speaker 1: empower viewers to make more informed decisions. To learn more
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  Speaker 1: about this, let's take a look at what gooning does
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  Speaker 1: to your brain. What is it supposed to do? Despite
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  Speaker 1: being a big part of 2024, the term isn't that new.
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  Speaker 1: The main purpose of gooning is to enter the so-called
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  Speaker 1: pleasure trance. This is the main purpose of gooning. According
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  Speaker 1: to an essay on solo and auto sexuality published in 2020,
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  Speaker 1: gooning is that point of pure sexual ecstasy dragged out
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  Speaker 1: over a long time. The feeling is extended through the
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  Speaker 1: use of edging. In essence, you would masturbate until you're
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  Speaker 1: about to reach orgasm and slow down to stop yourself
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  Speaker 1: from finishing. Do this for long enough and you'll feel
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  Speaker 1: yourself enter a trance or mental blankness. But does this
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  Speaker 1: actually work? And can that be good for you? What
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  Speaker 1: does it actually do? Impressions are mixed on whether or
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  Speaker 1: not that state of sexual euphoria is real. Perhaps there's
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  Speaker 1: a placebo effect happening where the expectation of an orgasm
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  Speaker 1: allows you to be more open to entering a sort
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  Speaker 1: of trance. Those who have gooned or edged tend to
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  Speaker 1: agree that that state of euphoria or hypnosis isn't real,
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  Speaker 1: or is at least greatly exaggerated. In reality, gooning is
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  Speaker 1: just an extended session of edging. So we can break
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  Speaker 1: gooning down into two characteristics that work together in order
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  Speaker 1: to get a better understanding of what it's doing to
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  Speaker 1: your brain. The first characteristic is short-term semen retention, which
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  Speaker 1: isn't unhealthy, but is unlikely to provide the long-term benefits
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  Speaker 1: of semen retention, like less stress and more energy, because
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  Speaker 1: in this context, it's only done in service of a
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  Speaker 1: greater orgasm later on. The second is compulsive masturbation, which
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  Speaker 1: carries implications for what it can do to your brain.
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  Speaker 1: What does this do to your psychology? Edging involves holding
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  Speaker 1: off on orgasm so you can have a more powerful
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  Speaker 1: orgasm when you eventually do. While there are benefits to masturbation,
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  Speaker 1: and edging is fairly common practice, using it to constantly
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  Speaker 1: seek greater and greater orgasms like you theoretically would by
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  Speaker 1: gooning could indicate excessive masturbation. Psychologists Wiebke Dreymayer and colleagues
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  Speaker 1: identify excessive masturbation as a hypersexual behavior. This makes sense
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  Speaker 1: considering that the act of gooning involves dedicating a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time to masturbation and pornography consumption. Treating masturbation
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  Speaker 1: and porn consumption like a hobby that you dedicate exorbitant
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  Speaker 1: time and even money to puts you dangerously close to
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  Speaker 1: or within the realm of being hypersexual. If your porn
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  Speaker 1: and masturbation habits are taking time and attention away from
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  Speaker 1: other more important things, you may have a problem. This
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  Speaker 1: intense focus on porn and masturbation can affect you in
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  Speaker 1: many different ways. Psychological dependence is when you rely on
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  Speaker 1: a substance so much that you need it just to
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  Speaker 1: get through the day. So if you can't go a
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  Speaker 1: day without watching porn or masturbating, it's likely you have
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  Speaker 1: a psychological dependence on it. As any addict would know,
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  Speaker 1: it takes more and more stimulation to achieve the same high.
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  Speaker 1: When we apply this idea to gooning, which takes this
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  Speaker 1: overstimulation to the extreme, the potential damage to the pleasure
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  Speaker 1: sensors in the brain is greatly increased. Gooning can even
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  Speaker 1: be a symptom of a psychological dependence on masturbation as
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  Speaker 1: people try to explore ways to get more pleasure out
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  Speaker 1: of masturbation. But There are other problems that arise as
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  Speaker 1: a result of those pleasure systems getting fried. As silly
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  Speaker 1: as the idea of gooning might seem to most people,
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  Speaker 1: especially because to most people it's just a meme, there
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  Speaker 1: are behaviors that might look familiar. That's why it's important
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  Speaker 1: that we open up a conversation about these things. Relationships
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  Speaker 1: and Pleasure Changes If you are consistently training your brain
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  Speaker 1: to expect more and more stimulation to reach orgasm, the
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  Speaker 1: actual act of sex could become less satisfying. The comparative
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  Speaker 1: lack of stimulation that comes from sex compared to gooning
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  Speaker 1: could lead to erectile dysfunction and relationship dissatisfaction. It can
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  Speaker 1: also lead to hypersexuality or can be a symptom of hypersexuality.
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  Speaker 1: All of this together can affect your mood, in extreme cases,
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  Speaker 1: making you more likely to cheat on your partner and
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  Speaker 1: lead to sexual dysfunction. It should be noted that according
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  Speaker 1: to psychologist and sex therapist, Dr. Lori Lorenz, edging can
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  Speaker 1: actually treat erectile dysfunction and help people explore sexual interest
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  Speaker 1: by slowing things down. But these benefits only affect a
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  Speaker 1: few special cases. Gooning is an extreme form of self-pleasuring.
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  Speaker 1: so it may be beneficial to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: your own habits to see if there's anything that could
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  Speaker 1: be negatively affecting your mental health or relationships. Research on
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  Speaker 1: the actual act of gooning is limited, so we have
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  Speaker 1: to go off what we know about hypersexuality and excessive masturbation.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to goon, goon cautiously and be mindful
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  Speaker 1: of the potential side effects. Do you think gooning is
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  Speaker 1: something that researchers should start taking seriously? Or is it
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  Speaker 1: just a fad and a meme that no one is
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  Speaker 1: really serious about? Let us know your opinions in the
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