OneTaste - Inside the Sex Cult
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Ruwan Meepagala and Orgsm, a Memoir1
5:44 What was Ruwan's experience in OneTaste?
44:56 The dark side of OneTaste
1:13:51 Why were criminal charges brought up?
1:17:32 Why did Ruwan leave?
1:26:29 Harm and recovery
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserved listeners. We have a special guest on the podcast today, Ruan, who was in the One Taste group. |
| 0:09.5 | Some might call it a cult. |
| 0:11.2 | Mianenaberto recorded an episode a while back a few years ago after the Netflix documentary called Orgasm Inc. came out, if you remember this documentary. And it was |
| 0:23.9 | featuring a set of allegations from former members and journalists that were observing this group |
| 0:31.4 | in, from my memory, it was in Silicon Valley, and it was sort of like a startup. It was sort of like |
| 0:37.1 | the apple of cults in a way, but it involved orgasm and sex positivity. |
| 0:42.3 | And it had a charismatic leader at its center. |
| 0:46.3 | And at first it just seemed like, oh, it was liberating. |
| 0:50.3 | And it was helping people get out of their shell, helping people to have body positivity, |
| 0:57.0 | helping people to get in touch with their bodies, move past traumas or stigma or something. |
| 1:03.0 | And then below the surface, though, as allegations started coming forward from employees |
| 1:08.0 | and participants that they were being coerced, they were being forced to work for no pay, |
| 1:14.6 | there was abuse, there was high control, these are the allegations. |
| 1:18.8 | And for my knowledge, the central figures of this group were just convicted earlier this year |
| 1:25.5 | of the charges that were brought upon them as a result of the |
| 1:30.9 | allegations. And Ruan's agent reached out to me saying, would you like to talk to him? He is a |
| 1:38.2 | former member of this group and is also an author and a coach. And I jumped at the chance because I thought it would be |
| 1:48.4 | interesting and illuminating and maybe helpful for us to learn from Ruan's experience. So |
| 1:55.6 | welcome to the podcast, Ruan. Yeah, thanks for having me, Kirk. So right up front, what's the name |
| 2:00.6 | of your book? |
| 2:02.0 | It's Orgasm Inc. I know no one's seeing this except for you, but I have the book here. |
| 2:06.4 | Excuse me, Orgasm a memoir. That was a documentary inside the matriarchal cult of One Taste. |
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