This should end up with them on the sex offender registry. It won't, but it should.

You know what else would be funny? Convictions. Fuck these losers

Fucking gross. What the fuck is wrong with men these days? And I'm saying this as a man. Fucking hell.

They're really becoming a race of fucking baboons. Between the looksmaxxing incels, the christo-fascists, misogynists, and these sexual predators, there's just no end to the shit men are doing these days. You can't rely on them to save our society from the predators that rule it, because they're on the same fucking team.

I swear, if I have faith in anyone to save our society it's going to be women and queer folk. Because the men have lost it.

Let this shit happen in front of me. There is no way I'm not interfering. I don't mind going to jail for beating the brakes off of a bully.

Shame on The Guardian for using a term for a kink when the article itself even mentions a term for the specific form of sexual assault. Why call this anything ralted to gooning when it's tagging/sharking/cum-sharking?

This may seem minor to folks, but it's actually extremely concerning. I'll be very clear though, this behavior was disgusting. I'm not saying people engaging in sexual assault aren't pieces of shit or that they're just engaging in a harmless kink. The problem is that the article also uses a term for a kink/people engaging in a kink and labels it onto people engaging in sexual assault.

It even came with its own specialized vocabulary. Masturbating in public and surreptitiously ejaculating on random women was known as “tagging” or “sharking” – or even “cum-sharking”. Online forums praised perpetrators for being “low inhibition” or “low inhib”, and users contributing to the discussion said they wished they could summon the same fearlessness in themselves.

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Almost immediately, the lawyers stumbled on another weird dimension to the cases they were developing: an online subculture of lonely, disaffected men, known as “gooners”, who bond with one other over their shared fascination with obsessive masturbation and compete with each other to see who can keep going for hours or even days at a time.

While most appear to pursue their self-pleasure in private “goon caves” and are not criminals, some gooners, the lawyers found, took pride in public acts of masturbation. In fact, some were committing sharking assaults at Dollar Tree stores and posting the footage online.

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Another gooner, who was caught filming himself while masturbating at a Dollar Tree in Fern Park, Florida, told police that he did this regularly “in different locations” and uploaded the videos to an OnlyFans page, according to his arrest report.

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Long before it developed an association with criminal acts, “gooning” was understood as a pornography-fueled compulsion, sometimes involving multiple screens at once, that can become a substitute for intimate relationships with others. It also tends to come with a heavy dose of self-loathing. Experts say that online forums and video content aimed at gooners often send the message that obsessive masturbation – whether alone or in public – is as much as men like them can aspire to in life. Webster described it as a “disavowed manic state of triumph over something hideous”.

One common trope of the pornography that these gooners consume has men ejaculating over women’s bodies, faces and hair – acts that, Lankford said, have no basis in evolutionary biology and are difficult to interpret as anything other than demeaning to the women.

As a small aside, I think the last paragraph really shows out weirdly out of touch some of this article is. Does something sexual have to be based on "evolutionary psychology" for it to be considered acceptable? As long as consensual for all parties involved, why does it matter? Just because something makes you personally uncomfortable doesn't mean it's something that's inherently wrong. Kinks can be explored in a consensusal, safe, and healthy way. Conversely, would that suddenly mean other niche kinks that are based in more biological topics are considered acceptable? Does knotting get a pass but facials don't?? Like, this paragraph is just so weird. Anyways, back to the main point.

This is really concerning to me. It's the Overton window shifting to demonize porn instead of the actual issue at hand: sexual assault.

For folks who might not understand why I think this is concerning, consider this hypothetical alternative scenario.

Alcoholic sexually assaults woman

A local woman was attacked in public. During the assault, the assailant's words were slurred and his breath smelled of hard liquor. He was detained and found to be a part of a community that attacks women and posts videos of it online. They call themselves rapists.

Almost immediately, the lawyers stumbled on another weird dimension to the cases they were developing: a disturbing trend amongst people to engage in drinking alcohol. These alcoholics bond with others over their shared interest in alcohol.

While most alcoholics are content to self indulge at home or in bars, many also drink at parties, or large get togethers of many people. At these parties many people drink alcohol. A concerning trend amongst party goers is to have sex. Many of these alcoholics rape women at these parties.

We consulted a biologist and they informed us that alcohol is actually poisonous to the body and there is no reason one should ever consume it.

In case it's not clear, instead of calling the person a rapist they're called an alcoholic, ignores that the person is in a group called "rapists", and then tries to make a connection between alcohol and rape.

What if the article was about finding a kidnapping victim who was tied up and the article attributed it to shibari? It's just so weird to me. I find it disgusting. I hope that others here aren't so puritanical that they can see the problem I'm illustrating.

Not even sorry to say, the INSTANT I feel threatened, my tiny ass foot is going up your dick hole as forcibly as possible. I am fairly small, don't often feel worried about that... but you get in my space I'm going to bring you down to my height. Or the floor. Preferably the floor.

Disgusting people need to be afraid of reactions again.

Need to bring back hat pins.

Sometimes I feel like we'd have a better world if we gave women free guns.

Not a kinder world, probably, but a better one.

A “Dollar Tree gooner” crypto coin launched in January 2025, followed by an unofficial Pokémon card and a song released on SoundCloud by an underground noise band from Tennessee named Mukus.

Everything for the memes. Nothing else matters.

Those responsible for the act here are horrible, broken people, but don't forget the company that created the conditions for this to happen and an environment where their employees can be so casual about sexual assault - most likely being perpetrated predominately on low/no income individuals and people of color per Dollar Tree's typical customer base.

I had something like this happen to me when I was 20. I was helping my disabled aunt by bringing some boxes up to her apartment. I kept seeing this one really old guy as I was going up and down and I got really off vibes from him. As I was leaving the building, I grabbed the same doorhandle I had grabbed many times before, except this time there was semen on the backside of it and it got all over my hand. I'm pretty sure it was the old guy cause I never saw anyone else except my aunt there. I was too naïve to know what to do in that situation so unfortunately he got away with it :(

I will, for sure, kill a mfer for doing that to me or my wife.

My objection to capital punishment leaving my body

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This is repulsive. As a (wo?)man, I’d beat the fucking shit out of anyone who does this.

We have idiots out here everyday tryna catch pedophiles ("the call is coming from inside the house!") but nobody steps up to try to catch and break motherfuckers like this.

It absolutely makes me want to start a Dollar Watch where we basically wait around outside of dollar stores and wait for this kind of incident to happen so there's someone there to tackle these chumps as they try to get away.

Unfortunately, for types like this, the only meaningful thing that ever works is consequences to their actions... and often that's not enough either.

EDIT: Also decent men should be infiltrating these groups and tipping off the fucking cops... and noting when the people they are rooting out are cops themselves! to ensure they're not handing the case over to people who will bury it.

How... How do you even do that????? Dumbfounded.

Ew. Those stores have really narrow aisles and idk if its like this everywhere, but they're often kinda messy -- like its not uncommon for things to get knocked down to the floor. And the aisles are not easily observed from the checkout. Oh look, another public space that is not safe for everyone.

The future is fuckin weird.

Giving gooners everywhere a bad name