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At its peak, 'Orgasmic Meditation' group OneTaste was making millions and endorsed by the 'high priestess of the vagina', Gwyneth Paltrow.
Now, the defunct 'cult' faces sex-trafficking and prostitution allegations
Here's the bizarre story 👇
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Here she developed a technique called ‘orgasmic meditation’
A woman lies on ‘a nest’ of pillows and ‘butterflies’ her legs (Daedone’s words), draping a leg over a fully-clothed man beside her.
⏰He sets a 15 minute timer.
Wearing latex gloves he then touches ‘the upper left quadrant’ of the clitoris
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💕She hoped to promote OM as ‘a way to make orgasm, connection and sensuality sustainable’.
The community quickly grew to around 50 members, most in their late 20s, OM-ing 2 or 3 times a day with various ‘research’ partners
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💸An introductory workshop cost $195
💸A week-long ‘urban monk’ programme set you back $2,000
💸Or you could train to become a certified coach for $16,000
Men stroked women, and sometimes women stroked women; nobody stroked men.
💳But everybody paid...
📱 ‘Silicon Valley was a really great place to market because we could talk in terms of having a new operating system for human connection.’
💄 Khloé Kardashian was said to ‘swear by’ OM.
But its most celebrated champion was Gwyneth Paltrow...
🕯 Paltrow’s website Goop – famous for selling the ‘This Smells Like My Vagina’ candle – ran interviews with Daedone
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⛪️ Yet, in 2015, Daedone organised a series of events called Magic School, naming a handful of the inner circle as ‘priests and priestesses of orgasm’
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They promoted a smorgasbord of different courses costing up to $60,000 a year.
💰The ‘Nicole Daedone Intensive’, offering personal tuition in stroking by Daedone herself, cost up to $36,000
They urged customers to take out multiple credit cards to pay for courses.
🧾 Potential customers, it was alleged, were referred to as ‘marks'
It was allegedly said that women should be able to have sex with anyone as ‘the orgasm is so strong that it alchemises everything’
‘All allegations of abusive practices are completely false. OneTaste is an organisation that helped individuals to increase health, happiness and connection through methods combining mindfulness and sexuality.’
But the OneTaste website no longer exists...
❓And Nicole Daedone disappeared
A new ‘Institute of OM website’, set up by former members, invites users to ‘Learn to OM for free’.
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