OneTaste

You’ve heard of the Monkey Trial. This is the Clitoris Trial. She taught in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. She gathered people into rooms and spoke to them about a practice that involved stroking the clitoris. She called it Orgasmic…

Orgasmic Meditation, or OM, is about clitoral stimulation as a method to improve health and growth.  It has been castigated as sex, and sex is dirty. Judge Diane Gujarati, who presided over the trial of two women, the founder of OM, Nicole…

“Abandon all hope, ye brainwashed fools.” Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is a practice where someone, usually a man, strokes a woman’s clitoris for fifteen minutes. It is consensual. Two women, Nicole Daedone, who popularized the practice in San Francisco, and her top promotional…

The Age of Conviction It was the best of times for prosecutors. It was the worst of times for justice. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, the American federal system has entered an era that future historians will likely later…

Steven Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts who has built a career on a single claim: that he can identify “destructive cults” using a diagnostic overarching highly simplistic completely subjective tool he created called the BITE model. He has…

In June 2025, two women were convicted of forced labor conspiracy in the Eastern District of New York. No one was physically restrained. No one was threatened with violence. No substantive crime of forced labor was charged. Nine out of 35,000 former…

Rachel Cherwitz is Nicole Daedone’s co-defendant, who is currently incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while they await sentencing.  Rachel Cherwitz was the Head of Sales at OneTaste, a sexual wellness company that taught a practice called “orgasmic meditation.” She joined…

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984 In Part One of this series, we examined how federal prosecutors executed a classic bait-and-switch in the Nicole…

I recently appeared on the Roger Stone show on WABC to talk about the OneTaste case. Roger Stone: Right now in the Eastern District of New York, there’s a federal trial going on against the founder of OneTaste, a wellness…