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"Orgasmic Meditation": a documentary from Netflix tells the story of its creator and the scandal in which she was involved
Orgasm Inc.: The OneTaste Story (Orgasm Inc.: The OneTaste Story / two, USA). Address: Sarah Gibson, Sloane Klein. 89 minutes. Available on: Netflix. Our opinion: very good.
The industry of The well-being It has continued to grow in recent years. New practices, surprising tricks and exotic offers related to personal health appear often and, in many cases, the proven effectiveness of these offers is nil or, at the very least, questionable. Nicole Daedone, a former California model trained in yoga, kabbalah and Buddhist meditation, created "orgasmic meditation", a rare practice that made her a millionaire but also caused a scandal. It is dedicated to this story with some surprising contours. The Orgasm Industry: The OneTaste Story.
Daughter of a father who abandoned her as a child and died in prison accused of abusing two minors, Daedone worked for a few years in an art gallery until 1998 when she joined The Welcomed Consensus, a group created to "seek deliberate orgasm". “. The bomb exploded when a few former employees and repentant customers of One Taste – the company that emerged in 2004 in Silicon Valley selling a service dedicated “to improving health and promoting personal fulfillment” – denounced the development of a clandestine prostitution network which he exploited above. all victims of different traumas.
A magazine survey Bloomberg Businessweek He added some very controversial data: he assured that One Taste salespeople spent hours and hours calling everyone who had already visited the center to offer new courses, “almost always more expensive than the previous ones”. There are those who say they borrowed $150. The aforementioned outlets also reported that in 000, OneTaste paid $2015 as part of an out-of-court settlement to an employee who said she was ordered to sleep with potential male clients.
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The documentary tells how the One Taste project was born and how its founder managed, relying on an undeniable charisma and a power of suggestion, to build a kind of sect with followers all over the world. One Taste was initially a hit in the United States, but soon spread its tentacles to Europe and Asia. And despite conclusive evidence of manipulation and shady dealings hidden behind a technique that uses a marketing name to disguise mere masturbation (the "orgasmic meditation" that One Taste offers is basically just that), there are plenty of adherents who publicly complained about this Netflix movie. .
Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste – Credits: @Prensa Netflix
One Taste Once Made a Profit of $12 Million a Year, Nicole Daedone's Book Unhurried Sex: The Art and Technique of Female Orgasm was a Best seller and the 2011 TED talk of what was then considered a model entrepreneur was viewed on YouTube by a million and a half people. Daedone's most famous supporter was undoubtedly Gwyneth Paltrow, who has her own line of sex-related products at Goop, a "wellness and lifestyle" company she founded in 2008. most of the clients were unknown, but none had financial difficulties: a one-week One Taste “program” costs $2 and the course to become a certified instructor costs $000.
One of the customers who tried it, was not satisfied and publicly recounted his experience, explaining what the main practice of One Taste was: "There were men who masturbated women and women who masturbated women, but no one masturbated men. Pay, they all paid, it's true”. And you had to pay more if the guru was directly involved, of course: The "Nicole Daedone Intensive" course, with the creator of One Taste personally in charge of orgasmic meditation, cost $36.
One of the testimonies presented in the documentary – Credits: @Prensa Netflix
But not all of them are crazy sticks and numbers. On September 6, when Netflix announced this documentary, a petition appeared online with four hundred signatures expressly reflecting the dissatisfaction of many customers with the platform: "Each of us, involved in One Taste as a course participant, volunteer, employee or member of a community built around meditation orgasmic, grants you specific and exclusive authorization to the company to film our participation in certain courses and activities, solely for teaching and educational purposes, ”specifies the text, aimed in particular at preventing the circulation of private images of these practices.
“In some members' experiences, the company used flirting and sex to attract emotionally vulnerable targets. Employees learned to work for free or very cheaply to show their dedication. And managers frequently ordered employees to have sex or practice orgasmic meditation with each other or with customers," says a report presented to the court by the US prosecutor's office based on testimonies from ex-executives. clients.
To her followers - who are still numerous, because although One Taste no longer functions formally as before, there remains an online community - Nicole Daedone promised "spiritual enlightenment and community ties" through fifteen female orgasms minutes known in this context in particular under the name of “orgasmic meditations”. And it didn't go badly: at the height of the project, in 2018, some 35 people participated in face-to-face events, more than 000 took courses and workshops and some 15 completed their program. coaching.
Known in the United States as "OM", Orgasmic Meditation began as a procedure recorded by One Taste with a rather vague description: "A unique practice that combines mindfulness, touch and pleasure". The lawsuits against the company further elaborate on what the practice involves: "Typically, it involves a couple's experience in which a man uses the tip of a gloved, lubricated finger to caress a woman's clitoris. for fifteen minutes with an up and down motion. ”.
Today, One Taste, a company that once had 150 employees and declined to participate in the documentary, lacks the extensive network of service centers it had during its successful years, but it remains a “nonprofit research center” and launched an app that provides “free instructions for orgasmic meditation.” The current executive director of what has now become the OM Institute states that "orgasmic meditation is for any adult who is looking to improve their emotional and physical health and who is willing to try new things".
“Orgasmic Meditation”: a Netflix documentary tells the story of its creator and the scandal in which she was involved – Credits: @Prensa Netflix
Listening carefully to the many testimonies included in the Netflix documentary, observing the images of the contested practices and the style of its main promoter, so similar to that of the leaders of any cult, it is more logical to think of a great a company whose dubious profile is one of manipulation and abuse, two counts that naturally need to be proven.
One of the successes of the documentary is to include several testimonials from people who came to One Taste with problems related to their sexuality and claiming to have found a palliative or an improvement with the therapy offered by the wellness center. Combining the first-person account of these virtually positive experiences with others of people who have gone through less happy times, presents a more or less delineated map: adults who voluntarily believe in orgasmic meditation and are ready to pay to live she should be exonerated from charges, unless there was a crime (again: manipulation, human trafficking, abuse, swindle or clandestine prostitution, the covers behind which the FBI now has also started to investigate).
For the moment, Nicole Daedone is still active, although much less visible than in her prime years: she is preparing a book on the culture of cancellation and, for the moment, they have no court convictions against her for this case.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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