When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized "orgasmic meditation," or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people "discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness," the OneTaste website advertised in 2009. To OM, "one person strokes another person's clitoris for 15 minutes with no goal other than to feel the sensation," it said in 2018.
There was no mention of snakes. Or magic. Or sex trafficking.
Over the years, OneTaste took off, hosting conferences featuring boldfaced names and receiving friendly coverage in outlets ranging from from Vice to New York to The Atlantic. In 2017, Khloe Kardashian called OMing "the key to ultimate satisfaction."
