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OneTaste laminitis Nicole Daedone—who was charged with forced labour conspiracy successful 2023—denied accusations that the wellness company, which teaches "orgasmic meditation" classes to women, is simply a enactment cult.
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Nicole Daedone is addressing allegations astir her wellness organization.
The OneTaste laminitis denied accusations that she subjected employees astatine the "orgasmic meditation" institution to affectional and carnal abuse, including forcing them to execute enactment acts.
Daedone told NBC News successful an interrogation published Nov. 13, “It’s decidedly not true."
As for different allegations astir her company? The erstwhile CEO besides said she's not wholly amazed that OneTaste—which has been followed by celebrities specified arsenic Gwyneth Paltrow and Khloe Kardashian—has been accused of being a "sex cult," though she denies that it is one.
“The astir honorable happening I tin accidental is, it makes consciousness to maine connected the 1 hand," she said. "And what I mean by that is, we bash not person a civilization that understands women’s power, women’s narration to sexuality, women owning their desire."
Daedone founded OneTaste successful 2005 with the extremity of improving women's well-being by teaching "orgasmic meditation" classes, which are 15-minute partnered practices that purpose to make a harmless situation for women's intersexual desires to beryllium expressed. She sold the company, present called Institute of OM, successful 2017. The wellness guru was charged with 1 number of forced labour conspiracy successful 2023, 1 twelvemonth aft Netflix released the documentary Orgasm Inc., which featured erstwhile employees who said they were subjected to a toxic situation portion portion of the program.
Prosecutors allege that she preyed connected victims of trauma, forced them into indebtedness by opening lines of recognition to wage for their courses astatine the company, had them slumber successful communal homes and manipulated them into performing enactment acts with investors and clients, according to NBC News.
But for Daedone, the allegations were simply "cut and paste."
"At OneTaste, we were rooted 100 percent successful consent," the 56-year-old continued. "If I speech to you astir the practice, from the precise infinitesimal I would accidental to you, 'You tin accidental yes oregon no,' and nary is simply a perfectly acceptable reply passim the signifier itself."
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As for her adjacent steps? Daedone volition basal proceedings successful January 2025 for her complaint and could look up to 20 years successful situation if convicted.
But she said she is looking guardant to proving her innocence successful court.
"As overmuch arsenic immoderate quality being, arsenic this woman, this person, would not privation to spell to tribunal due to the fact that it’s grueling, conscionable adjacent going to tiny hearings," she said. "I privation to spell to tribunal due to the fact that I privation each of this transparent."
She added, "I privation it to beryllium exposed. I privation everything that I didn’t accidental to beryllium said."
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