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278. Inside the World of Sex Cults: Anke Richter

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Anke Richter was investigating the coercive and crazed world of sex cults, when she ended up getting too close to OneTaste, the sect made famous by Netflix for its OM (meditation) sessions. Anke Richter links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anke-Richter/e/B0BH4SDQRH https://www.ankerichter.net https://twitter.com/AnkeRichter Andrew Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://www.patreon.com/andrewgold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have a really prescribed formula, how you ask for now. You just go up to someone and say do you want to on with me?

1:06.0

It's like do you want to have a cup of tea with me?

1:10.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of On the edge with Andrew Gold. Today I'm talking to German New Zealander Anka Richda. She's a journalist with a lot of experience in cults. She's written the book,

1:23.4

Cult Trip inside the world of coercion and control.

1:27.4

And she has a specific or a particular interest in sex cults. I guess all cults or a lot of cults are pretty obsessed with sex

1:35.2

either by you know making their rules around sex or taking advantage of people in

1:40.7

the cult or through abstinence and things like that where they demonize sex but either

1:47.2

way sex tends to be right at the forefront of cultishness and she sort of went a bit too far in many respects Anka.

1:57.0

She's an interesting case because she sort of enjoys some of the cultish stuff herself.

2:02.0

She doesn't always talk about exactly you know all

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