What ‘gooning’ reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screens

What ‘gooning’ reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screens

Gooning usually involves streaming online pornography across multiple screens and browsers for hours at a time. Tero Vesalainen/iStock via Getty ImagesFour years ago, I started a class at Temple University titled, “Social Perspectives of Digital Pornography: The Other Sex Ed,” centered on porn literacy, or what young people learn – or don’t learn – from digital porn. I wanted to create a space to examine these issues, not from the assumption tha…