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

  • Written by Jennifer Pollitt, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Temple University
What ‘gooning’ reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screensGooning usually involves streaming online pornography across multiple screens and browsers for hours at a time.Tero Vesalainen/iStock via Getty Images

Four 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...

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