goon cave
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area or room dedicated to long masturbation sessions ("gooning"), often featuring a multimonitor setup showing multiple pornographic films simultaneously.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: masturbatorium"
- "The gooner's effort to enter this headspace may include "goon caves," which are multi-screen setups splaying a variety of porn. Most number three or four screens, but among the more elaborate constructs, proudly posted to r/GoonCaves by StayHard8, is a nine-screen monolith. […] Today, Marshall spends at least an hour or two per day — and up to five or six hours on his days off from work — gooning. His goon cave boasts six or seven screens, and he calls the activity a manifestation of "endless self-pleasure.""
- "All meat diets, semen retention regimes and goon caves — the perennial question "are men ok?" is not an unreasonable one, with the latest book by Nina Power seeking to empathetically understand the current state of masculinity."
- "His is one example of a goon cave, a dedicated, often elaborate and thoughtfully-constructed setup for viewing porn for hours, even days, at a time. Gooners and their caves have existed for years, but their community has exploded in recent years—and with it, content creators who are working to meet their needs."
- "The gooners first came to limited public attention by way of their “gooncaves”: rooms remodeled in the service of porn consumption. You’d think a person, having just built a gooncave, would take every possible measure to conceal its existence, […]. Instead, the gooners bragged about them."
Etymology
From goon (“to enter a trance-like state after masturbating and edging for a long period of time”) + cave (“a place of retreat”). Mainly associated with the r/GoonCaves subreddit, created on May 23, 2019.