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Infamous

OneTaste: The Startup That Went Too Far

Infamous

Sony Music

News, Relationships, Society & Culture, True Crime, Entertainment News

3.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Orgasmic Meditation was supposed to close the “pleasure gap.” Instead, it led to a federal indictment. Natalie talks to Bloomberg’s Ellen Huet, author of Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness, about the woman behind OneTaste and the explosive allegations that led to the startup’s downfall. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everybody and welcome back to Infamous, a Sony music entertainment and Campside Media production. So I know you just listened to an episode about Alison Mack,

1:22.0

but we are now going to talk about another strange sex cult. So this is a bit of a sex cult doubleheader. This time

1:31.2

it's run by a woman. I'm talking about what's called orgasmic meditation and the organization

1:37.8

that rose up around that practice. It was led by a woman named Nicole who who appeared to be a blazored, business-oriented

1:46.5

orgasm philanthropist of a sort, as has been written. As we all know, women have orgasms at way

1:55.1

lower rates than men. I don't know if anybody saw that Nicole Kidman movie Baby Girl, where she's like married to the hot

2:01.9

Spanish guy, but she admits that she hasn't had an orgasm throughout their entire marriage.

2:07.4

And then she gets addicted to a younger employee and having sex with him and he has this very weird

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