OneTaste Founder of Wellness Trend Turned Sex Cult is SENTENCED to 9 years
Cults to Consciousness
Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Daedone, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, was JUST sentenced to 9 years in federal prison following a conviction for forced labor conspiracy. She was found guilty of leading a scheme that subjected members to economic, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse, along with indoctrination and surveillance. Today we are joined LIVE with Ellen Huet, the investigative journalist for Bloomberg News who wrote the viral article that exposed the dark sides of OneTaste and Daedone, and is author of “EMPIRE OF ORGASM: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult” on the rise and fall of OneTaste, to further discuss the case.
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| 0:30.6 | Hey everybody. Welcome back yet again. We just cannot stop. I feel like we've been going live |
| 0:35.1 | every single day this week in the past week. |
| 0:43.1 | This is Colts to Consciousness. My name is Shalise An Solo. We are covering culty news yet again. |
| 0:50.7 | And this time it is great news. We have a little bit of a resolution to a story here talking about the One Taste orgasm cult. And I had to bring on the person who pretty much |
| 0:55.7 | initially exposed them from the beginning. Ellen Hewitt, thanks for being here. |
| 0:59.5 | Thanks so much for having me. Yeah. Let's talk about your involvement in exposing this group. |
| 1:05.7 | Actually, before we do that, for those who aren't familiar, can you tell everybody what One Taste is? |
| 1:11.6 | Definitely. And it requires a little bit of explanation. So One Taste is a |
| 1:16.6 | company, a sexual wellness company that was started in San Francisco in the 2000s by a woman named Nicole |
| 1:22.6 | de Dadeon. And the company sells courses on a practice that they developed in trademarked called |
| 1:29.4 | Orgasmic Meditation, or OM, sometimes called Ome. |
| 1:34.3 | And orgasmic meditation is a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking mindfulness practice. |
| 1:41.8 | So the pitch from One Taste to the company is that if you do orgasmic |
| 1:46.3 | meditation or if you own regularly every day, you will see dramatic improvements in your life. |
| 1:53.0 | You will have better sex, better relationships, better access to your intimacy, your sense |
| 1:57.9 | of intuition, better vitality, more energy in your life. The promise is that it will |
| 2:04.5 | transform you, both for men and women. And so, yeah, the way it works is that a man who stays fully |
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