When is someone a coomer?
Someone is called a coomer when porn use begins to affect their daily life. Specifically, you can recognize this by:
- Frequency: watching porn and masturbating more than 4 times a day.
- Time spent: spending more than 15 hours a week on porn.
- Negative consequences: poorer concentration, reduced motivation, procrastination, and problems in social or romantic relationships.
- Example: a student who spends 5 hours a day on pornographic websites instead of studying and cancels plans with friends.
A coomer is therefore not someone who watches porn occasionally, but someone whose behavior is persistent and harmful to themselves and/or the people around them.
A coomer is different from a gooner. Gooning is a state of being, an activity derived from edging. Gooning can be part of a coomer's daily routine. A gooner is a more intense form of coomer, in which porn use continues for even longer and more intensely, and this trance-like state is deliberately pursued.
