1. Changing the world through orgasm

The Orgasm Cult

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.

Nastaran Tavakoli-Far explores the rise and fall of One Taste. We learn how to practise Orgasmic Meditation with a former member and his wife, and hear co-founder Nicole Daedone’s story of how she encountered a Buddhist monk at a party who changed her life. And former One Taste members and staff tell us about the optimism with which they joined the project, looking for a sense of purpose, for adventure, or for healing.

But we hear how things soon started to go sour, with predatory sales practices, coercive control and abuse – financial, emotional, physical and sexual.

And we’re also asking bigger questions that go beyond just one company.

What makes people turn to organisations like One Taste in search of connection in the modern world?

Why are women’s health and women’s sexuality still not taken seriously by conventional medicine?

And where is the line between healing and harm?

Presenter: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far Producer: Lucy Burns Editor: Penny Murphy