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From MSCHF Mag Vol. 7—
The sex recession is a meme-and a half true one at that. People didn't decide to stop having sex. They just decided to have sex with images instead. Porn, after all, is a digital substitution good? for fucking. Enter the goon cave—a chamber kitted out with poppers, displays, VR headsets, sex toys, black-out curtains, and God knows what else is needed for hours long-or allegedly days long edging session. Your own private chem sesh. It's a DIY anticipation of the tech to come: some unholy combination of AppleVision and Neuralinka reducing all sex to sensation and image.
If sex once (literally) brought people together-the gooner insists on being apart. If sex is hot, mammalian, and visceral, gooning is cold, plastic, electric. If sex manifests love, gooning is an addiction.
Don't picture a boot stomping on a human face forever. Picture the gooner, swaddled in darkness, summing again and again and again into the void.
Because the sex recession will ultimately be a humanity recession!.
Imagine 2070 as Elon Musk's natalist nightmare-albeit Neuralink's business opportunity. Ten billion souls strapped into the gooner metaverse, compulsively ejaculating until they inelegantly expire.
Civilization blinking out as one gooner after another goes dark. All the while, the median age of Earth creeps toward seventy.
The gooner, after all, is a goner.
Avoiding this dystopia is not as hard as it might seen though. Find some matches and set this magazine on fire.
Go out and fuck someone.
