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    The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

    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 👇 Thread 🧵https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/inside-multi-million-dollarorgasm-cult-endorsed-hollywood/ …

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      2. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🌅This is a story of idealism and desire, of Californian sex communes and three-hour orgasms, of the search for Eden and the worms in the apple of power and money...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/inside-multi-million-dollarorgasm-cult-endorsed-hollywood/ …

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      3. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🗓️In 1994, Californian-born Nicole Daedoe joined a community of orgasm researchers called The Welcomed Consensus. Here she developed a technique called ‘orgasmic meditation’

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      4. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        ❓What is 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 clitorispic.twitter.com/dnE1CcjJne

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      5. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        📅 In 2004 Daedone set up OneTaste Urban Retreat. 💕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’ partnerspic.twitter.com/CADpiBAo3G

        24 replies 102 retweets 314 likes
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      6. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        Prospective OM-ers were offered a menu of services: 💸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

        34 replies 113 retweets 325 likes
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      7. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🤑They sold were how-to DVDs, ‘One Stroke’ lubricant and OM pillow sets to build nests. Men stroked women, and sometimes women stroked women; nobody stroked men. 💳But everybody paid...

        66 replies 137 retweets 586 likes
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      8. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🗣️OneTaste’s former ‘lead instructor’ Ken Blackman said that OM-ing ‘resonated particularly deeply with techies.’ 📱 ‘Silicon Valley was a really great place to market because we could talk in terms of having a new operating system for human connection.’

        17 replies 100 retweets 313 likes
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      9. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        OneTaste soon gained traction with celebrities too. 💄 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 Daedonepic.twitter.com/AfJulOVXbm

        78 replies 152 retweets 342 likes
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      10. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        Daedone was sensitive to the cult accusations. ⛪️ 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’pic.twitter.com/1fOmFtONvM

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      11. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        📈 By 2017, OneTaste had 150 staff members, including salespeople. 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

        14 replies 90 retweets 235 likes
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      12. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        📉 OneTaste’s downfall began in 2018 when a Bloomberg investigation discovered that it was engaging in pressurised sales tactics. They urged customers to take out multiple credit cards to pay for courses. 🧾 Potential customers, it was alleged, were referred to as ‘marks'

        18 replies 129 retweets 380 likes
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      13. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        💰 Another Bloomberg investigation revealed that in 2015 OneTaste had paid a $325,000 out-of-court settlement to a former staff member who said that she had been ordered to sleep with prospective male customers

        10 replies 138 retweets 373 likes
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      14. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🎙 In 2020 ‘The Orgasm Cult’ podcast brought damning allegations of staff being coerced into having sex with men to entice them to take courses. It was allegedly said that women should be able to have sex with anyone as ‘the orgasm is so strong that it alchemises everything’

        12 replies 113 retweets 347 likes
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      15. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        🔴Responding to the BBC programme, a lawyer for OneTaste said: ‘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.’

        5 replies 59 retweets 185 likes
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      16. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        ❌ In October 2018, after the Bloomberg exposé, OneTaste announced it was closing all its US offices saying instead it would be focusing on online education to reach a wider audience. But the OneTaste website no longer exists... ❓And Nicole Daedone disappeared

        6 replies 107 retweets 321 likes
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      17. The Telegraph‏Verified account @Telegraph Apr 23

        However, her cult of the orgasm continues to thrive… A new ‘Institute of OM website’, set up by former members, invites users to ‘Learn to OM for free’. Read more 👇https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/inside-multi-million-dollarorgasm-cult-endorsed-hollywood/ …

        92 replies 97 retweets 307 likes
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