1. Everything in the previous comment about OneTaste was true ten years ago, when I lived there - and from what my friends still involved with OT tell me, still true today. The difference is that there is no more sex in classes, no more hands-on genital contact in how to OM classes, and no more public OM circles. But there are still real OM circles and demos for the staff.
2. “She (Nicole) said (her father) never behaved inappropriately to her; they had long been estranged.”
She admitted having sex with her father to people at OT ten or eleven years ago. I wonder why she denied it later.
3. Except for coaching, the business model for OneTaste, and much of the course material, came from Welcomed Consensus. Daedone learned Deliberate Orgasm stroking when living at Welcomed Consensus. She talked about this in classes. Welcomed Consensus staff copied and taught the courses they learned at Lafayette Morehouse.
She studied later at Morehouse where DO Deliberate Orgasm stroking was first commercialized. She also studied with Ray Vetterlein, who had studied sex and stroking techniques at Morehouse for 40 years.
After Vic Baranco died, Nicole tried to take over Morehouse, saying that Baranco had promised her that she could run it when he died. But the community, many of whom had lived there for over thirty years and who had raised families there, set her straight, and on her way.
Nicole simplified Deliberate Orgasm, limited the time to 15 minutes, added meditation, and renamed it Orgasmic Meditation - OM. She started Insight Institute to teach classes, and then OneTaste.
She ran her own OneTaste community in San Francisco teaching Orgasmic Meditation, as well as sensuality and lifestyle improvement classes around 2004. They lived in a warehouse from 2006-2008. Residents then moved up the street to a residential hotel, 1080 Folsom, for several more years. Around 50 people lived in those places. People from out of town who attended classes got to share beds with residents. Lots of sexual exploration happened at those places. Lots of mind fucking. Lots of cult like language and manipulation. It was like a wild college dorm.
The coaching started in 2008 in an effort to make big money faster. Bryan Franklin was hired to run Onetaste and to teach coaching to the residents of OneTaste. The first coaching program cost over $20,000, and was about combining OM training with life coaching. Franklin left at the end of CP1. Onetaste hired other coaching professionals to help teach coaching, and later staff did the teaching, with guest speakers.
There used to be lots of sex in the expensive classes until a couple of years ago when company lawyers became concerned about pimping and pandering laws, and about OT being treated like a happy ending massage parlor.
Staff were taught that * every * interaction between students and staff was considered to be a sales opportunity. No one was ever forced to sign up for classes they could not afford. Quite a few people were manipulated, guilt tripped, or sexually enticed into taking expensive classes. But the sales coaches at Onetaste had no problem signing up people who could not afford classes. Some OT staff recommended to some people that they max out their credit cards and declare bankruptcy.
Some women, including friends of mine, were convinced to have sex with old rabbis who taught Kaballah classes at Onetaste. I assume they were exploring kosher orgasms. Years later, in front of everyone in a class, Daedone apologized for feeding women to her rich boyfriend who had supported the company for several years. Some of those women are my friends, who later regretted doing so. I told one of them that she should have at least been paid for her efforts, since she was being pimped out.
But no one was ever forced to do anything. Many people believed in the guru and would do anything for her. Many were lonely and looking for community. Many just wanted a better sex life.
In my opinion, everyone got hustled, except for Nicole Daedone, who sold the company for over $10 million dollars before the Bloomberg article came out. She cashed out just in time.
2. “She (Nicole) said (her father) never behaved inappropriately to her; they had long been estranged.”
She admitted having sex with her father to people at OT ten or eleven years ago. I wonder why she denied it later.
3. Except for coaching, the business model for OneTaste, and much of the course material, came from Welcomed Consensus. Daedone learned Deliberate Orgasm stroking when living at Welcomed Consensus. She talked about this in classes. Welcomed Consensus staff copied and taught the courses they learned at Lafayette Morehouse.
She studied later at Morehouse where DO Deliberate Orgasm stroking was first commercialized. She also studied with Ray Vetterlein, who had studied sex and stroking techniques at Morehouse for 40 years.
After Vic Baranco died, Nicole tried to take over Morehouse, saying that Baranco had promised her that she could run it when he died. But the community, many of whom had lived there for over thirty years and who had raised families there, set her straight, and on her way.
Nicole simplified Deliberate Orgasm, limited the time to 15 minutes, added meditation, and renamed it Orgasmic Meditation - OM. She started Insight Institute to teach classes, and then OneTaste.
She ran her own OneTaste community in San Francisco teaching Orgasmic Meditation, as well as sensuality and lifestyle improvement classes around 2004. They lived in a warehouse from 2006-2008. Residents then moved up the street to a residential hotel, 1080 Folsom, for several more years. Around 50 people lived in those places. People from out of town who attended classes got to share beds with residents. Lots of sexual exploration happened at those places. Lots of mind fucking. Lots of cult like language and manipulation. It was like a wild college dorm.
The coaching started in 2008 in an effort to make big money faster. Bryan Franklin was hired to run Onetaste and to teach coaching to the residents of OneTaste. The first coaching program cost over $20,000, and was about combining OM training with life coaching. Franklin left at the end of CP1. Onetaste hired other coaching professionals to help teach coaching, and later staff did the teaching, with guest speakers.
There used to be lots of sex in the expensive classes until a couple of years ago when company lawyers became concerned about pimping and pandering laws, and about OT being treated like a happy ending massage parlor.
Staff were taught that * every * interaction between students and staff was considered to be a sales opportunity. No one was ever forced to sign up for classes they could not afford. Quite a few people were manipulated, guilt tripped, or sexually enticed into taking expensive classes. But the sales coaches at Onetaste had no problem signing up people who could not afford classes. Some OT staff recommended to some people that they max out their credit cards and declare bankruptcy.
Some women, including friends of mine, were convinced to have sex with old rabbis who taught Kaballah classes at Onetaste. I assume they were exploring kosher orgasms. Years later, in front of everyone in a class, Daedone apologized for feeding women to her rich boyfriend who had supported the company for several years. Some of those women are my friends, who later regretted doing so. I told one of them that she should have at least been paid for her efforts, since she was being pimped out.
But no one was ever forced to do anything. Many people believed in the guru and would do anything for her. Many were lonely and looking for community. Many just wanted a better sex life.
In my opinion, everyone got hustled, except for Nicole Daedone, who sold the company for over $10 million dollars before the Bloomberg article came out. She cashed out just in time.