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The Unlocked Door: A Series on the OneTaste Precedent

May 8, 2026

United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz: A Series on the Precedent On June 9, 2025, in United States v. Daedone et al., No. 1:23-cr-00146-DG (E.D.N.Y.), a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against defendants Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz on a single count…

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The OneTaste Trial: They Got Their Witch

by Frank Parlato

April 27, 2026

Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz ran a San Francisco company called OneTaste that focused on sex and enlightenment. Sixteen thousand people took courses. Years later, they found themselves in a federal courtroom not in permissive San Francisco but in Brooklyn, where the…

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They Convicted OneTaste. Trump’s Communities Are Next

by Frank Parlato

April 23, 2026

If you are looking for the moment American federal criminal law crossed a line, this is it. The people who built the case hate Donald Trump. Steven Hassan wrote a 300-page book called The Cult of Trump. Bandy X. Lee organized a…

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Brooklyn Just Made It Legal to Prosecute Donald Trump for Brainwashing His Followers

by Frank Parlato

April 13, 2026

The term ends January 20, 2029. The man who held it steps back into the jurisdiction of ordinary law. The great man remains, but the office no longer stands between him and the process that his enemies would try to deploy. Whether…

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OneTaste Verdict: How Forced Labor Conspiracy Theory Redefined Consent and Coercion

by Frank Parlato

April 11, 2026

No one had brought a case like this before. Only a conspiracy, stretched across years. They admitted there were no chains or locks. It did not matter. A person could be held without being held. A woman could stay because she felt…

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The Corrupt Judge on Trial: How Diane Gujarati Set A New Dangerous Precedent During The OneTaste Case

by Frank Parlato

March 31, 2026

By Troy Smith A 2025 federal trial — a single charge of forced labor conspiracy without the underlying charge of forced labor, known by many as the OneTaste trial — is our textbook case for testing whether a judge can be entirely…

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OneTaste Founder Gets Prison in First Brainwashing Conviction in US History

by Frank Parlato

March 30, 2026

Nicole Daedone got 9 years. Rachel Cherwitz got 78 months. Every witness said she was free to leave. Every witness signed consent forms. The government's answer: they were brainwashed. United States v. Cherwitz is the first federal criminal conviction in American history…

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Can OneTaste Case Be Used Against Trump?

by Frank Parlato

March 28, 2026

Will a Brooklyn Federal Prosecution Make It Possible to Prosecute Trump for Running a Cult? On March 30, 2026, in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Judge Diane Gujarati will sentence two women for a crime the jury was told it did not…

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OneTaste and the FBI’s Scorecard

by Frank Parlato

March 8, 2026

The Epstein Inversion: OneTaste Case Is the Opposite of What You Think Two investigative articles. Five months apart. Both were published in 2018, both about sex. Both triggered outrage. One of them was about Jeffrey Epstein, a man who trafficked more than…

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What the FBI Told Itself About OneTaste

by Frank Parlato

March 7, 2026

Inside the FBI, the case became a matter of pride. An internal briefing ranked OneTaste alongside Epstein and NXIVM as one of the Bureau's most important human trafficking investigations. The New York office used that ranking to justify a High Performing rating…

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FROM NETFLIX TO LOCKUP: The Brainwashing Case That Could Jail a Philosophy

by Frank Parlato

February 20, 2026

The United States v. Belief On March 30, 2026, a federal judge in Brooklyn will sentence two women for teaching a philosophy about the clitoris. The prosecution wants 20 years for Nicole Daedone and 14 years for Rachel Cherwitz. The charge is…

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The State v. The Clitoris: What the Witnesses Said

by Frank Parlato

February 17, 2026

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…

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Nicole Daedone Faces 20 Years for Teaching Women ‘Orgasmic Meditation’

by Frank Parlato

February 15, 2026

Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz face sentencing on March 30 on a single count of forced labor conspiracy in a Brooklyn federal courthouse before US District Judge Diane Gujarati. The prosecution is asking for 20 and 14 years, respectively. The federal government…

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Excluded From Trial: Nine Studies That Show Orgasmic Meditation Is Meditation, Not Sex

by Frank Parlato

February 14, 2026

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…

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The Clitoris is Legal, Teaching About it Isn’t: Unravelling the Daedone and Cherwitz Case

by Frank Parlato

February 13, 2026

“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…

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Will Trump Pardon Daedone & Cherwitz: Why the OneTaste Conviction Threatens Every Movement in America

by Frank Parlato

February 7, 2026

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…

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The ‘True Crime’ in the OneTaste Case Was Committed by Netflix and the FBI

by Frank Parlato

February 4, 2026

In November 2022, Netflix released Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste, a Lena Dunham-produced “true crime” documentary about a sexual wellness company that taught a partnered practice called orgasmic meditation. It was geared towards women and promoted a philosophy that was sure…

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THE STEVEN HASSAN FILES: Part II: Steven Hassan’s War on Cults Could Destroy Religious Freedom

by Frank Parlato

February 3, 2026

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…