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  • I'm a passionate woman and I'm a woman

  • with depth and with desire.

  • For me OM has been more about surrender,

  • helping me open my orgasm.

  • Confidence and clarity.

  • It's a connection to that, like,

  • sexual and powerful woman inside.

  • This story's about a company called OneTaste

  • that is a sexual wellness company

  • that teaches a practice called orgasmic meditation.

  • When it feels that good, you don't want to move an inch.

  • Everyone should be experiencing this

  • and talking about this part of our lives.

  • This is the food I was searching for, you know?

  • And that I didn't have name for,

  • and they were calling it orgasm.

  • How did they say it?

  • It's like orgasm is God.

  • Desire is the force on this planet

  • meant to grow us into the person

  • that we know we can be.

  • It's just so incredible, and I really genuinely

  • want everybody to have access.

  • It just felt so understandable to me

  • how they could take those first steps

  • toward something that ended up in a place

  • that was really predatory and maybe even a cult.

  • My name is Ellen Huet, I'm a reporter for Bloomberg

  • and I wrote the story

  • The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company.

  • OneTaste has several different philosophies

  • that kind of guide what it does.

  • They first and foremost believe

  • that doing the orgasmic meditation practice,

  • which is a 15-minute partnered clitoris-stroking practice,

  • helps open up your connection to your body,

  • your desire, to other people.

  • Basically it just does many, many good things for you.

  • And they see it as a practice that should be taught

  • alongside meditation and yoga.

  • OM is a partnered practice where

  • the upper left-hand quadrant of a woman's clitoris

  • is stroked lightly and deliberately for 15 minutes.

  • Some of the benefits of OM include

  • feeling confident and self-expressed,

  • increased vitality, learning to use desire as your guide,

  • better sex and deeper relationships.

  • You know, some people just take a few classes

  • and some people it becomes their life.

  • And I think for those in the group

  • where it really takes over their life, some people love it

  • and some people feel like it's the worst thing they've done.

  • I spent a long time talking with,

  • she's named as Michal in the story,

  • that's just her first name.

  • She struck me as someone who was just really relatable,

  • she was in her late 20s when she joined,

  • she had been a teacher in New York.

  • And she had recently gotten out of a relationship.

  • She was feeling a little low, and thinking to herself

  • maybe I need to meet some new people

  • to make a change in my life.

  • And she encountered OneTaste the way that many people do,

  • which is through one of their free events.

  • Hi!

  • Ia, of course, let me back up,

  • is in our Desire Room.

  • You would show up, and it's a bunch of people,

  • and maybe you do something like play communication games.

  • I'm about to write down some desires

  • and put them on the wall.

  • Yeah, we're just going to paper the walls

  • And she leaves with this impression

  • that these people, like they've figured something out,

  • and they continued to get in touch with her and they said

  • hey if you want to learn more about orgasmic meditation

  • maybe you should take our Intro to OM class.

  • And this is a class where they talk

  • about the philosophy of OneTaste,

  • they teach you about orgasmic meditation.

  • They have a demo in which the two teachers

  • demonstrate one OM session in front of the class.

  • So how we'll do it is,

  • I'll describe what's going to happen,

  • and then I'll bring in two people

  • to do the demonstration for you.

  • And then at the end of the day's class

  • they would let students pair up if they wanted

  • and try orgasmic meditation for the first time.

  • So that's what she did.

  • And after that, they just kinda

  • kept getting in touch with her.

  • And it happens gradually and then all at once.

  • Like she got closer with these people, she left her job

  • to come start working for OneTaste.

  • And she moved out of her home to move into

  • an OM house, as they called it, in New York.

  • I don't think there are very many places in the world

  • where we can feel a full range of emotions,

  • even to their highest intensity,

  • and not have to shut them down in one way or another.

  • I've had people describe orgasm to me as a force

  • almost like the Force from Star Wars,

  • so people would talk about how like,

  • listen to your orgasm, what is it telling you?

  • And is it telling you to do this or that?

  • And they would rely on people

  • who were very advanced in OneTaste

  • to help them understand how they should be

  • sort of following their orgasm.

  • Hi everyone!

  • So, my name is Maya, I have been OMing for eight years now.

  • I was in the class, and I remember this experience

  • of feeling like I was having questions answered

  • that I didn't even know I had the question of.

  • The people I talked to who got involved

  • seemed really similar to myself.

  • They just seemed really normal, right?

  • These are people and I felt that there was something

  • pretty universally human about what they wanted.

  • They were looking for community, meaning.

  • They wanted to belong to a group of people

  • who felt like they were working all together

  • towards something really special and important.

  • For a while it was very popular within the group

  • to believe that if you were having sex with a lot of people

  • that you would free yourself from

  • the things that constrained you

  • in terms of how you related to other people.

  • And they often talked about how preferences

  • were something that would hold you back.

  • And this meant that you gained more spiritual enlightenment

  • if you had sex with or did sexual acts

  • that you didn't want to.

  • It taught members to ignore their personal boundaries

  • about what they did and didn't want to do.

  • Ultimately, OM is a practice.

  • So you don't need to be turned on or in the mood to do it.

  • In fact, OM cultivates libido.

  • And so Michal's taking more classes,

  • and these classes are very expensive,

  • they can cost anywhere from several hundred dollars

  • to some of them are thousands of dollars for a retreat.

  • And you can pay $60,000 for a year-long membership

  • which lets you take any of the classes you want.

  • So quickly she started spending more and more money.

  • It kind of leads into this larger teaching that OneTaste had

  • which was that money is just sort of an emotional obstacle

  • to getting what you want.

  • Going into debt to pay for courses was really common.

  • This was actually something that salespeople at OneTaste

  • would encourage students and customers to do.

  • They would say, "Oh, if you really want this course,

  • you'll find a way to pay for it.

  • Look, you could even open a new credit card."

  • There was a woman who I was dating, and she said,

  • "Hey I want to take this class with you,

  • and I want you to pay for it."

  • And I was like, what?

  • And we hung up the phone, and I just sat in this chair.

  • And I could feel the desire start

  • to almost like necrotize inside of myself,

  • I could feel it starting to die.

  • And I picked the phone back up and I said

  • no, no, no, wait, I want to do it.

  • The company pressured customers to buy classes

  • and to even take on debt to buy classes.

  • The company used sex to get sales,

  • and they did this in several different ways.

  • We have people who talk about they were, as salespeople,

  • instructed to OM with or have sex with somebody

  • who was then called up to, you know, buy a course.

  • Partway through the year, Michal met somebody in OneTaste.

  • They got married; they got married at a OneTaste retreat.

  • And all of a sudden she and her husband,

  • they just had sort of gotten swept up

  • in this whirlwind of the OneTaste life.

  • She was around $20,000 in debt.

  • She and her husband together had spent

  • about $150,000, that's their estimate.

  • Eventually, soon after they got married,

  • Michal kind of reached a breaking point

  • for a variety of reasons.

  • She was feeling really stressed.

  • Someone that she worked with, who was

  • like her closest friend in OneTaste, left,

  • and over time she and her husband

  • decided like, we need to leave.

  • Leaving OneTaste is this very lonely thing,

  • because once you leave the group,

  • people inside the group are told to never talk to you.

  • People sometimes refer to people

  • who had left the group as dead.

  • And so it can feel very lonely,

  • because you have left this group that was your friends,

  • often the people you lived with, the people you worked with.

  • And you often break from them very suddenly,

  • and then you don't really have anywhere to go.

  • And the people out here think that

  • the group that you just came from is super strange

  • and they don't understand.

  • There are a series of allegations in the story

  • and OneTaste had different responses to each of them.

  • So they say that they never required anybody

  • to have sex with each other in the work context.

  • Generally the company says they never used sex for sales

  • and that this is not something that they taught

  • Many people who had past experiences with OneTaste

  • said that they felt pressured to take on debt to buy courses

  • and the company said we took money

  • from people that we shouldn't have,

  • and that we've changed our policies since.

  • I saw parallels between the way that OneTaste ran

  • and the way that some startups run,

  • which is like, you really want

  • to be part of a tightly knit group

  • that is charging toward a very unique solution

  • that has a lot of meaning.

  • That's what drove people to become

  • super involved in OneTaste.

  • That's part of what drives people

  • to work crazy hours for very little money

  • for the chance at equity at some company

  • that you think is going to change the world.

  • And for many of the people I talked to

  • after the story ran they were grateful

  • that this was something that was finally being told.

  • And their reactions to seeing their personal and confusing

  • and weird and isolating story told in a major magazine

  • was really heartening to me,

  • and was really meaningful to them.

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