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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.

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Lin

Such repugnant & loathsome behaviour from the leaders of this "organisation" (*cult!). Not content with scamming huge amounts of money and babbling garbage, now they're also encouraging acts of sexual violence and abuse as a form of "treatment". Surely they didn't actually believe that traumatic experiences could be overcome by inflicting more trauma??!!?! What some people will do for money and power is truly frightening.

Feb 14th
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Lin

Ken Black you are an idiot! Thinking that women either 'want something' or behave like 'victims' in relation to sex wasn't an attitude you questioned until some stranger dropped her knickers for you? Really? I cannot even begin to fully express how ridiculous you sound!!

Feb 13th
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PugWash

Just a few episodes in and I think it's pretty good...but we'll get into that in a later post.

Dec 16th
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Tara

This is a great podcast that sheds thoughtful empathetic light on how people are prayed upon by greedy selfish individuals. Thank you!

Dec 12th
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Amanda sissons

the narrator is absolutely awful. its like she is screaming but someone how monotone as well.

Nov 29th
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