We’ve reached peak goon. Which is to say, “ gooning ” has just been named the Fetish of the Year by Clips4Sale , the leading platform for kink content. Citing a 151 percent increase in sales for gooning content since 2023, including a 49 percent jump in the last six months alone, the site has identified gooning as the fastest-growing trend in kink. Meanwhile, Google Trends data also reveals a steep increase in gooning-related searches over the last year, confirming that while Clips4Sale has technically crowned gooning their 2026 Fetish of the Year, 2025 was really the year this once ultra-niche kink officially went mainstream

I may be biased, but I like to think that we here at Cosmo may have played some small role in cementing gooning’s icon status this year—thanks, interestingly

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