Inside California's 'orgasm commune'
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
OneTaste, the organisation behind the practice 'orgasmic meditation', was hailed as visionary at its peak. Since then, its leader, Nicole Daedone, has been arrested by the FBI on forced labour charges and her group has been branded a 'cult' – allegations they deny vehemently. But what is it? Sunday Times reporter Megan Agnew was invited to their California compound, The Land, to find out.
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| 1:40.0 | On a Wednesday evening in December, Sunday Times news feature writer Megan Agnew and photographer Rachel Wright drove along a dirt road about 100 miles north of The compound called the land. |
| 2:06.0 | So, um, me and Rachel are here and we're just |
| 2:12.0 | leaving the land. It's like dark nearly dark and like there's a |
| 2:16.3 | really low fog through this valley that we're driving through and how are you feeling Rachel after two days of being on the land? |
| 2:27.0 | Just weird. I don't think I have words yet. I think I'm going to need professional help to process it all. |
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