Glossary
The terms, plainly defined.
The vocabulary of this fight — internet slang and clinical terms alike — defined plainly, without hype. Each definition matches how the term is used across the PrayBreak blog.
- Gooning
- Extended, trance-like porn sessions in which orgasm is deliberately delayed — sometimes for hours — chasing an escalating, dissociative high. What is gooning? →
- Edging
- Repeatedly bringing arousal close to climax and stopping, to prolong and intensify a porn session. The core mechanic that stretches use into gooning.
- Goon cave
- A physical or digital setup — multiple screens, saved content, a dedicated space — arranged specifically for long porn sessions.
- Gooned out
- The numbed, foggy, dissociative mental state during or after an extended porn session.
- “Corn”
- Algospeak spelling of “porn” used on social platforms to slip past content filters — a marker of how normalized the content has become in mainstream feeds.
- Urge surfing
- A skill for riding out an urge like a wave — noticing it rise, peak, and pass (usually within minutes) without feeding it or white-knuckling against it. How to stop a porn urge right now →
- Moral incongruence
- The distress of doing something that violates your own deeply held values. Research finds it central to why porn use harms Christians distinctly — often independent of how much is actually used. Feeling addicted vs. being addicted →
- Abstinence violation effect
- The “all is lost” collapse after breaking a streak that turns a single slip into a full binge — the reason shame-based streak thinking backfires.
- Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder (CSBD)
- The ICD-11 diagnosis (code 6C72) for a persistent pattern of failure to control intense sexual impulses, classified as an impulse-control disorder — not an addiction. “Porn addiction” is not a formal diagnosis in the DSM-5.