Profs & Pints DC: The Gooning Lecture

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The ‘Gooning’ Lecture,” answers to our questions about a growing online sexual practice, with Jenn Pollitt, assistant professor in the gender, sexuality, and women’s studies program at Temple University.

The term “gooning” has exploded across online spaces, yet many people have only a vague or wildly inaccurate sense of what it actually references.

Learn about gooning both as a sexual practice and as a cultural phenomenon shaped by the internet with Jenn Pollitt, a scholar whose research focuses on pornography, digital culture, and the changing nature of intimacy in the age of screens.

She’ll provide clear, grounded, and research-informed exploration what gooning is, how it emerged within digital porn cultures, and why it resonates with so many people in an era defined by screens, algorithms, and constant stimulation.

Drawing from media studies, sexuality research, and firsthand analysis of online communities, Dr. Pollitt will situate gooning…