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.’

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 Daedone

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’

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

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'

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

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’

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.’

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

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’.

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