Q: What is “Gooning”? and what is a “Goon Cave”?
A: To answer this question, we need to understand what happens to our body as it moves from being turned on through orgasm. This is called the Sexual Response Cycle. Take a look at this graph:
When we get turned on and start to masturbate or engage in other sexual activity, our body starts storing up nerve, muscle, and blood tension in our body. This puts us into a state called Excitement. We start at zero excitement and climb up from there. As our excitement increases, pleasure increases. In the Plateau phase, we’re really turned on. We’ve stored up and are holding a lot of tension in our bodies and we’re experiencing high amounts of pleasure. Here we have a choice. We can keep holding this high amount of pleasure in our body, or, with just a little more masturbation or sexual activity, we can have an Orgasm. That’s the third stage. An orgasm is a sudden release of all the body tension we’ve built up in one quick burst. After we have an orgasm, our body’s excitement falls back to zero. This is called the Resolution stage.
“Gooning” is holding one’s body in the Plateau phase of this cycle as long as possible. It’s also called “Edging”. The “Goon Cave” is a name for the feeling of holding all that high pleasure in one’s body. Some people say it puts you in a kind of trance where you’re just vibing with the pleasure and zoning out on everything else. It’s actually not easy to stay in the Plateau phase because the body wants to move to orgasm and you’re fighting against that. People have to practice to be able to stay in that Plateau phase. It takes really knowing how much stimulation your body needs to stay in the sweet spot of high pleasure without losing it or moving to orgasm.