NICOLE Daedone promised to make orgasms accessible for all women through her brand OneTaste, and had an army of celebrity followers to support her.
Gwyneth Paltrow promoted the on while previously said she ‘swears’ by the Orgasm Meditations offered, but behind the scenes, a darker world lay hidden.
Nicole Daedone, founder and former chief executive officer of OneTaste pictured outside courtCredit: Getty
In the company’s hay-day, Nicole had a fan base including Gwyneth Paltrow and Khloe KardashianCredit: Shutterstock
They became famous for their Orgasm Meditations, but former members claim there was a dark sideCredit: youtube/@nypost
Starting in 2004, the business had a mission, ‘to provide teaching and training on living a desire-based life rooted in a felt sense of connection,’ according to their website, which is still up and running.
A catalogue of sexual wellness practices are available, from Orgasm Meditations to in-person training days to learning your body’s ‘true desires’ for just £110.
But in 2025, the former CEO Nicole, 57, and the former head of sales for OneTaste, Rachel Cherwitz, were charged with forced labour conspiracy.
The charges included sexual labour for the defendant’s benefit, as well as coercion of performing sexual acts.
While running OneTaste, Nicole would often show women how Orgasm Meditation worked by leading and demonstrating in-person sessions around the world, including America and to ‘help’ others reach climax.
It consisted of a woman lying naked on top of a mat under a cotton blanket known as the ‘nest’
A ‘stroker’, usually a man, would massage her for 15 minutes and help her to orgasm.
Those training to be strokers with OneTaste could pay £75,000 for coaching and training.
People willing to spend thousands on training courses could then become employees of OneTaste, but its methods of making people pay to work as ‘strokers’ landed them being dubbed a ‘sex cult’ by online critics.
According to court documents, OneTaste members and employees would live together in what they called ‘The Warehouse.’
They were assigned shared beds, and had to work and travel in groups; prosecutors say this made OneTaste members dependent on the brand for basic necessities and limited their independence.
Former OneTaste member Chris Kosley claimed he joined the group to help him pick up women.
Speaking on the documentary, Orgasm Inc: The story of OneTaste, he said: “Women and relationships were always a mystery to me.
“I didn’t understand how to find a girlfriend, but I wanted to get laid.”
Nicole would bring groups of people together to reach climaxCredit: © 2022 Netflix, Inc.
Chris Kosley joined OneTaste and even stayed at ‘The Warehouse’ with other membersCredit: © 2022 Netflix, Inc.
Claims were made that members were forced to relive their sexual assualtsCredit: © 2022 Netflix, Inc.
He claimed forums online showed members discussing how they were having threesomes and exploring their sexual fantasies.
Chris decided to go to one of the meet ups, and eventually joined the warehouse after realising what was on offer.
Mike Marinaccia, a ritual expert and freemason, alleged he was contacted by Nicole to help her perform Priest Ceremonies and start a ‘magic school.’
Audrey Wright, a former member of OneTaste, claims she volunteered to be part of the initial ritual – which made a select group of men ‘Priests of Orgasm Meditation’. She also claimed tickets cost between £10,000 to £25,000.
During these rituals, women allegedly laid down in a line as the priests took turns to give them the meditation, wearing nothing but a black veil over their heads.
A concerning detail was that many women were able to attend for free while men had to pay. So while the women did consent, it meant they were having sex with clients to give the business .
Those who joined the group have claimed they were told to participate in ‘aversion therapy’ and have sex with each other, even if they weren’t attracted to them.
Ellen Huet, a Bloomberg reporter who spent six years investigating the company and wrote the book Empire of Orgasm, claims many past members were told to take ‘aversion therapy’ to deal with trauma.
She says : “Aversion practice was basically teaching you that there is a lot of value to doing something that you expressly don’t want to do and it was often in a sexual context at OneTaste.”
One former member was reported to have been made to reenact her own sexual assault, according to prosecutors.
It involved the employee performing oral sex on a partner while being told “I love you” – just as her real rapist had, reports Marie Claire .
Another witness recounted how she was forced to become a “handler” for OneTaste’s primary investor – a role requiring her to live with him, cook for him, and perform demeaning sexual acts under his control.
One coaching session in 2013, that was filmed , saw Nicole tell sexual assault victims that rape can be deflected.
Nicole said: “I did a women’s group and they were like ‘Oh I’m so scared to turn on because all of those terrible men will rape me.’
“If you want to know, the real way to deflect rape is to turn on 100% because then there is nothing to rape.
“A woman turned on 100% has every single man around her bowing.”
Later, she described a “dark” man once putting a knife to her neck, while she was working in her prior career as a stripper.
“I shouldn’t be alive,” she said.
“He had [the knife] up against me and I just turned and I said, ‘How did you know I like that?’” Nicole told her followers.
“And I turned on my p***y as high as I could turn it on. And we were just in that place together and all of a sudden it just absorbed everything that was in there.”
She later told the group her own dad had been jailed for 52 counts of child molestation and she never saw him as a ‘bad person.’
Nicole added: ” I never took on the idea that he was a bad person, I took on the idea that he was just so expansive and fourth dimensional that he couldn’t confine himself to the arbitrary laws of the third dimension, that was his only in my mind.”
After a four week trial in 2025, Nicole Daedone 57, and her former head of sales Rachel Cherwitz, 44, were found guilty of forced labour in federal court.
They are currently both in jail as they await sentencing, which could see them jailed for 20 years.
A spokesman for the defense told PEOPLE : “This case never should have been brought. OneTaste was always about empowerment, consent, and healing.”
He called the case “stitched together with sensationalism and retroactive reinterpretation of adult choices.”
Daedone’s attorney said that each of the former employees had free will and could have left the group at any time in their closing statement.
Online The Eros Platform, part of OneTaste’s brand, is still showcasing AI-generated videos of Nicole Daedone from as she awaits her sentence.
In the clip, her avatar says : “I am incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn and I am a free woman.
“I want every woman to be able to say those words.
“This is your dispatch from your sisters on the inside from a dorm of 37 women in beige uniforms in a room of gray metal bunks and bright fluorescent lights.
“The first thing I want to say to you is thank you. Thank you for gathering tonight. Thank you for making a table where women can speak without interruption and listen without fixing.
“You may be over there and I may be in here, but spirit travels.
“I’m writing this with real tears in my eyes because even while I’m in here, we remain connected, still determined to set the world right.
“The tears of relief knowing we are not alone. And we need each other because freedom is an inside job. It’s the responsibility of the individual, but transformation is a shared one.”
The OneTaste business now use AI avatars of Nicole to spread her message while she’s behind barsCredit: youtube/@erosplatform
OneTaste’s former Sales Director, Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, the founder of OneTaste are currently waiting to be sentenced in jailCredit: Alamy
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