Earlier this summer, in a packed courtroom in New York City, very high profile, very unusual trial

unfolded, a trial that was about sex, coercion, and manipulation on a massive scale,

allegations of sex trafficking, sex work, sexual abuse, and a corporate leader exerting

cult-like control over followers slash employees. It was a trial about vulnerable people seeking a source of authority and finding someone

who absolutely did not have their best interest at heart, someone who wanted to exploit

them for everything they had to offer, someone who saw sex as a power game, a power game

that they could win.

And I'm not talking about Diddy.

Talking about the trial of Nicole Dadeon, the founder and former CEO of a company called

One Taste, a company labeled by many, including the federal prosecutors, the FBI, as a cult.

Founded in 2004, One Taste promised transformation through a practice called orgasmic meditation, a 15-minute

ritual blending mindfulness and sexuality that evolved a man sitting next to a woman,

butterflying her legs open, and carefully describing her vagina to her, before slowly and

deliberately rubbing his index finger on the upper left quadrant of her clitoris.

Gotta be the upper left quadrant.

We all know the other three quadrants are totally useless,

allowing her to experience pure, powerful, orgasmic sensation without the burden of the expectation of reciprocity.

For years, one taste portrayed itself to the outside world like any other health-minded community

center.

Maybe a little more out there than most.

But at the end of the day, not so different than going to a spa or trying a new kind of yoga.

It especially wasn't that crazy for San Francisco, where it was based and where other communes

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