This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co.
In the search for wellness, how far would you go?
Nicole Daedone, the charismatic co-founder of wellness company One Taste believed that orgasm would one day sit alongside yoga and meditation as the self-care practice for the modern empowered women.
Except that now the FBI is making enquiries in to One Taste over allegations including sex trafficking, prostitution and violations of labour law.
How did Orgasmic Meditation go from hippy beginnings to a sleek, million-dollar operation?
How did this wellness practise – touted as the next big thing everywhere from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop to the New York Times – lead to isolation, debt and abuse?
Why is women’s health and pain still not taken seriously by conventional medicine?
The Orgasm Cult is a story about people desperate for connection and how far they would go to find it.
Join Nastaran Tavakoli-Far as she investigates One Taste through exclusive interviews with former employees and asks big questions about the wellness industry.
Quite shocking to hear about the so called sexual enlightenment within this movement. On the other hand, because of the prudishness of sexual development and education in American culture, it doesn’t really surprise me that this type of cult or movement finds it origin in America.
What i miss in this podcast is a deeper investigation of Nicole Deadon. What was her actual motivation to start this cult? I think being the daughter of a child molester and possibly being exposed to traumatic sexual content maybe at a very young age, Nicole has a very twisted view of sex and female sexuality to begin with. Is it that her anger and frustration of what she went through at a very young age, made her revengeful? Does she thinks it’s justifiable to herself when she makes other people suffer the way she did? In the total concept of this bizarre story , i think this aspect could have been more illuminated. Yes, it’s primarily about the traumatic experiences of the members of this cult, but i really think there are elements missing from the story.
