Let me tell you a story about this one time where I joined a San Francisco sex cult.

Spoiler: The cult's founder, Nicole Daedone, and the former VP of Sales, Rachel Cherwitz, have recently been convicted of forced labor conspiracy by the Department of Justice in New York. In March 2026, Daedone was sentenced to 9 years, and Cherwitz to 6.5 years, in prison. More about Nicole and Rachel at justice.gov.

The sex cult was founded by Nicole Daedone in 2004 in San Francisco. I joined the cult much later in 2013 in New York City. The name of the cult was OneTaste. They marketed themselves as a lifestyle company that taught women how to achieve and enjoy orgasm.

So what's in it for the men, you might be asking. The men were there to bring the women to orgasm. The sex cult was not based on masturbation; instead it was based on tricking women into pulling their panties down for men wearing gloves to stroke their clits with lube. Yes, you read that correctly.

Let me start from the beginning about my journey into the sex cult. In 2013, I found out about OneTaste on meetup.com. The group held meetup events called Turn On, where a man and a woman hosted talks about sex, relationship and orgasm. Friendly light topics. The events took place in rented spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn. No sex yet.

As I went to their meetups more, the hosts started getting deeper about their practices. They advertised a paid class where men and women signed up to practice "pussystroking" with glove and lube. I took this class. The class was exactly as you might imagine. Instructors first demonstrated in front of the class. Then the students were divided into pairs. The women pulled down their panties. The men put on a glove on one hand and placed lube on the index finger. The men used the lubed index finger to stroke the women's clits. The sessions lasted exactly 15 minutes. During the actions, the room became a den of moaning women unlike anything that I've ever experienced.

Stroking clits with my finger was as far as I went. The sex cult also sold those $10k week-long getaway retreats where few lucky members got to learn about "real" magic. I never went. The people that went to those returned to join the company as unpaid employees. This was a major red flag for me. The employees of OneTaste were unpaid slave workers that took out credit card loans in order to take classes and seminars provided by the cult. Then they became the teachers. This is what the DoJ got them for.

Here's something that I really wanted to get off my chest. Nicole and Rachel really believed in magic and the supernatural. They admitted in their classes that they practiced The Left Hand Path to turn the self into god. I had met Rachel in person during many seminars. She acted like she could read minds. This one time in particular, Rachel demonstrated the ability to almost mildly shapeshift her face into something demonic. After the shift, she still had her face, but the eyes had turned black (she doesn't have dark eyes), and her whole demeanor became evil, harsh, and menacing. I was able to feel a different presence from across the room. This was my only experience with something that might be supernatural in nature.