How to Last Longer Masturbating: Six Ways to Enhance Your Gay Gooning Game

Masturbation doesn’t have to be a marathon sport—there’s nothing wrong with quickly rubbing one out; sometimes, you just have to get the job done.

But when we’re talking gooning – really immersing yourself in the bate – you need plenty of stamina and a lot of staying power.

Here are some suggestions on how to make the most of your me-time.

What is gooning?

Gooning is one of the terms that has emerged from the celebration of masturbation – accelerated by the online masturbation communities that exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

Different people will have different interpretations of what gooning is, but what’s clear is that it is more than just straightforward jerking off – it involves masturbating for an extended period of time and losing yourself in the sexual energy and the pleasure that is released by intense masturbation.

Where did the term gooning stem from?

The term gooning relates to looking or acting stupid or foolish. In the context of jacking off, what it’s describing is that you’re so lost in your masturbation that you pretty much become a dribbling mess – making dumb faces and looking stupid. You’re past thinking, you’re nothing more than a throbbing cock pulsing with pleasure.

Sometimes, that can look a bit performative – you’ll see guys with their tongues out, eyes rolling back, really demonstrating to their audience that they’re in a state of gooning, especially gay XXX OnlyFans performers that push gooning content on their platform.

How to elevate your masturbation to a gooning experience

While masturbation isn’t something that we’re generally taught – although it should be, we’ll deal with that in a separate article – we generally all figure out how to jack off.

Masturbation is primal – it’s not unique to humans, but it’s an essential part of our sexual development and our exploration of arousal and pleasure.

You may be confident that you know enough about masturbation to get yourself off when the need arises, but how do you take that next level and experience the mind-blowing disassociation of gooning?

Here are some options you might want to try.

Use Gay Erotic Hypnosis to Get in the Zone

Gooning is all about being in the right head-space to lose your inhibitions and let your penis take charge. Some guys find that gay erotic hypnosis helps to enhance solo play by equipping you with the tools and techniques to access the head-space required more quickly.

Read our piece on this hypnosis subgroup.

Breathe

Even if you don’t respond to hypnosis, simple breathing exercises will help you to get into a headspace that enables you to connect with your penis in a primal way.

Find a safe and comfortable space – you want to be confident that you won’t be disturbed. Take your time, enjoy being naked, start to explore your body, lube up your cock as your arousal grows and slowly begin to stroke.

Try closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing during this early phase – feel the sensation of your hand sliding up and down your greasy dong and let everything else dissolve from your consciousness. Nothing else matters except you and your penis.

Gay Poppers Training

If you’ve started to explore bating and gooning culture already, you’ll be aware that poppers are often a fundamental part of the gooning experience. Again, it’s about getting into the right headspace, and poppers can help some guys do that.

You’ll probably see references to gay poppers training – Bator enthusiasts have created videos or audio that may offer online coaching to help you use poppers to push your masturbation boundaries. Our poppers fanatic Dallas covered this in his gay poppers love letter; read it here.

Practice Your Edging

There’s no gooning without edging. Edging is all about taking your cock to the brink of ejaculating but not blowing your load.

Extended masturbation sessions rely on you being in tune with your body enough to know how to access the sexual energy of that orgasmic zone while still being in control enough not to go beyond the point of no return. Once you ejaculate, it’s game over.

It’s a good idea to get creative with your masturbation. Incorporate gay sex toys or dildos (along with your Fleshlight) to avoid falling into repetitive patterns of behaviour. Keep your body guessing by mixing things up – masturbate in different ways, in different positions, and in different locations. Masturbation should never be boring.

Mastering the art of edging takes practice. The more that you masturbate and edge, the more experienced you’ll get at being able to hold your sexual energy at peak arousal and really enjoy all of the sensations that come with that.

Invest in Ass Play

When we talk ass play, we often think of ramming ourselves with a giant dildo, but if you want to get better at edging, then it’s a good idea to get acquainted with your pelvic floor.

Your pelvic floor is in the pelvis, stretching from the pubic bone at the front to the tailbone at the back. Your pelvic floor comprises layers of muscles and tissue that form a hammock-like shape. The urethra and anus pass through the pelvic floor muscles, which wrap around these passages to help control the bladder and bowel.

When you’re edging, and you’re trying to hold back from cumming, it’s your pelvic floor that you’re squeezing – even if you’re doing it subconsciously.

Specific exercises can strengthen your pelvic floor. These are often referred to as Kegels because the doctor who invented them was named after them. Read our full article on Kegels here.

Pelvic floor exercises are all variations of clench-and-hold. The simplest way to incorporate them into your daily routine is when you’re taking a piss, try and stop urinating mid-stream. That’s your pelvic floor in action.

Using a small sex toy that’s designed to stimulate your prostate is also an excellent way to bring your pelvic floor into action – your pelvic floor supports your prostate.

Being able to activate your pelvic floor consciously will help you masturbate and edge and goon – maximizing your pleasure.

Tap Into that Porn

Most of us rely on porn to help fuel our masturbation sessions, but if you’re embracing the bator identity and you want to lean into gooning, then look for porn that supports that mindset.

There are lots of guys with gay fan subscription channels that are dedicated to extended masturbation sessions. There are also dedicated sites that enable bators to connect and share their masturbation.

Knowing that there are guys out there who are just as into masturbation as you are will undoubtedly help you to immerse yourself deeper in your solosexual search for pleasure.