
Nine years in prison for preaching unpopular ideas about sexuality? That's the sentence that a judge imposed today on Nicole Daedone of OneTaste, a company built on orgasmic meditation (O.M.) and other unconventional wellness practices. Daedone has also been ordered to forfeit $12 million—which is how much she got for selling the company in 2017—and to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.
The government will say that this is about human trafficking. But that's just a sign of how "human trafficking" has become a catchall term for sex-tinged antics that prosecutors want to punish.