News of the Weird
April 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm by Web Editor in Bad HabitsLEAD STORY: A 1970s-style San Francisco commune is organized around the practice of “orgasmic meditation,” but for women only, in daily sessions that start promptly at 7 a.m. Men belong to the commune, too, but are useful only digitally to the women and must remain clothed, according to a March report in the New York Times. The founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, Nicole Daedone, 41, is considered by some former members to be running a “cult,” because of her dominant personality and ability to play on the vulnerabilities of her members, but the three dozen now in residence seem to admire her vision. One man said, according to the Times, that he had improved his own concentration at work (as a Silicon Valley engineer) through “the practice of manually fixing his attention on a tiny spot of a woman’s body.”
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April 5th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I have tried deliberate orgasm and from my experience I don’t think there is any truth to the assumption just because One Taste and Daedone are going against the mainstream and doing it in a group makes it a cult. Personally I think they deserve some credit. I have never been there bu habe gotten great benefit from learning this technique as has my wife from videos on the subject we purchased from Welcomed Consensus. We can’t travel to New York or San Francisco so they have been perfect for us.