OneTaste: "Was I in a Sex Cult?"
Was I in a Cult?
Liz Iacuzzi
4.5 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Star Stone walked into a fluorescent-lit room on Market Street in San Francisco where a man who looked like Mark Zuckerberg stroked a woman's clitoris in business casual while thirty people watched. "This is it. This is what I need," she thought. It wasn't.
See, Star didn't join a cult (newsflash, no one does). She joined a sex-positive, orgasm-as-spiritual-practice kind of movement founded by a woman, for women. It was called OneTaste. It promised female empowerment. But what it delivered was sexual trauma. Thanks, Nicole Daedone!
Star Stone shares her story with the kind of honesty and dark humor that made us fall in love with her immediately. This isn't trauma porn - this is what happens when groups take your desire for connection, belonging, and sexual empowerment and weaponize it.
Star was a joy to have on the show. Be sure to check out her solo comedy show, "Cl*t Cult," premiering this April at New York Fringe. And don't worry... she promised to come back and tell us everything that happened at "the Land" after her show premieres.
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| 0:00.0 | The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely |
| 0:04.4 | belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts, |
| 0:09.4 | the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates. |
| 0:17.2 | We all want belonging. We all want connections, so certain groups are attractive. |
| 0:22.4 | But I think people miss the mark in these documentaries and in these movies and things when they |
| 0:29.4 | focus on the harm or the crimes of the actual cult, but they don't focus on humanizing it. |
| 0:39.3 | I think that it's important that cult survivors, and maybe survivors just in general, we have to be mindful with who gets our story like because people want to sensationalize it. |
| 0:49.3 | They want to have the trauma porn. And I just didn't feel comfortable with anyone using or talking about |
| 0:56.8 | my story except for me. |
| 1:10.9 | Welcome to Was I a Cult. I'm wasted. I'm not wasted. I'm lightly buzzed. |
| 1:13.5 | I've had a couple glasses of wine. |
| 1:15.6 | It's 9 o'clock, PM, and Liz and I are recording. |
| 1:19.3 | She's like, let's record. |
| 1:20.7 | And I was like, I just had pizza and wine. |
| 1:23.5 | And I said, yeah, because our fans need this. |
| 1:27.8 | Pizza and wine can't get in the way. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm not a Mormon anymore. |
| 1:31.8 | I can have wine. |
| 1:33.4 | This isn't going to go out. |
| 1:36.9 | I'm Tyler Meese. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Liz Ayakousy. |
| 1:40.8 | And on this show, guys, we talk to people who are in cults or cultic environments and we give them the space to reclaim their voice, reclaim their power, and tell their story in their own words. |
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