Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Nicole Daedone

The Government Wants To Punish Orgasmic Meditation Defendants for Crimes They Weren't Charged With

The prosecutors argue that sentencing based on unconvicted—or even uncharged—conduct doesn't violate due process.

Reason

Federal Prosecutors Are Starting To Sound Like Campus Activists About Sex and Consent

With the OneTaste case, the Department of Justice has embraced infantilizing ideas about women, consent, and coercion.

Reason

Founders of ‘Orgasmic Meditation’ group found guilty of forcing employees into sex acts

A jury found that Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz had manipulated vulnerable individuals into performing thousands of hours of unpaid work

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ wellness company convicted in forced labor trial

The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges

The Independent UK

FTC Pivots From Competition to Children

The result is the same: attacks on tech companies and attempts to violate Americans' rights.

Reason

A First Amendment Right To Preach Orgasm?

As the prosecution rests in the OneTaste case, the defense lays out the free speech implications if the government succeeds.

Reason

ICE Helps Round Up Sex Workers in Florida

In Operation Fool Around and Find Out, 244 "human trafficking" arrests, but no human trafficking.

Reason

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

At 'Orgasmic Meditation' Trial, Feds Can't Find a Clitoris—or Evidence of Forced Labor

The government has been putting sexuality, sexual labor, and unorthodox ideas about sex on trial.

Reason

California Sex Trafficking Fight Erupts Over Punishment for Soliciting Minors

Democrats did the right thing, got attacked for it, then caved.

Reason

FBI Failed To Spot Faked Evidence in Case Against Alleged Orgasm Cult

Journals allegedly written by the government's star witness in 2015 were not authentic, prosecutors now say.

Reason

When Yoga Sparked a Sex Panic

"Hindu mystics" with "swarthy faces and dreamy-looking eyes" once had Uncle Sam in a tizzy.

Reason

The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed 'Orgasm Cult'

Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.

Reason

Cults And Culture: The Indivisible Connection Between Humanity's Desire For Belonging And Purpose

Anti-cult rhetoric has magnified in the wake of several high-profile scandals. However, these narratives have enabled society to overprescribe the cult label to well-meaning alternative groups.

International Business Times

The Idol should have been about modern cults rather than Tedros’s weird kinks

As the HBO drama nears its final episode, Olivia Petter examines its least developed storyline

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Founder of sexuality-focused women’s wellness company accused of forcing members into sex acts

An entrepreneur who promoted group “orgasmic meditation” as a road to women’s well-being has pleaded not guilty to a charge of manipulating traumatized people into debt, undesired sex and underpaid work

The Independent UK

Founder of sexuality-focused women’s wellness company accused of forcing members into sex acts

The Guardian - US

US founder of ‘orgasmic meditation’ startup indicted on forced labor charges

Nicole Daedone of OneTaste accused, along with ex-head of sales Rachel Cherwitz, of running years-long cult-like conspiracy

The Independent UK

OneTaste peddled sexual wellness via 15-minute orgasms. Then everything went wrong

As Netflix releases a documentary charting the downfall of an orgasmic meditation company likened to a cult, Olivia Petter examines the future of a somewhat tainted sector

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

‘Pleasure should not be sold’: Sexual wellness, OneTaste and the risks of commodifying sexuality

As Netflix releases a documentary charting the downfall of an orgasmic meditation company likened to a cult, Olivia Petter examines the future of a somewhat tainted sector

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Justice

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.