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“Orgasmic meditation” guru Nicole Daedone once told her followers that they could stop a rape using their aggressive sexuality — and claimed she even did it herself against a knife-wielding man by “turning my p—y on high,” a Manhattan court heard Thursday.
Daedone — the founder of the allegedly sick sex cult OneTaste– is on trial in Brooklyn federal court alongside her former head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, where a jury was shown video clips of Daedone spouting her allegedly twisted doctrine about sex crimes.
In a recording of a 2013 coaching seminar, Daedone told a crowded room of members of her wellness start-up that she sometimes heard women say they didn’t want to be sexual for fear of being raped.
“If you want to know, the real way to deflect rape is to turn on 100% because then there is nothing to rape,” Daedone said in the video from August of that year. “A woman turned on 100% has every single man around her bowing.”
Later in the hour-and-a-half-long video, Daedone described a “dark” man once putting a knife to her neck, while she was working in her prior career as a stripper.
“I shouldn’t be alive,” she said.
“He had [the knife] up against me and I just turned and I said, ‘How did you know I like that?'” Daedone told her followers. “And I turned on my p—y as high as I could turn it on. And we were just in that place together and all of a sudden it just absorbed everything that was in there.”
She later went on to tell the group that her dad died in prison after serving time for being a serial child molester and how she believed he was too evolved to be constrained by laws.
“I never took on the idea that he was a bad person,” Daedone said in the video.
“I took on the idea that he was so fourth dimensional that he couldn’t confine himself to the arbitrary laws of the third dimension,” she said, referencing group-lingo about the worldly dimension versus the spiritual dimension.
“That was his only crime in my mind,” she said.
Daedone, 58, and Cherwitz, 45, are on trial for conspiracy to commit forced labor for allegedly luring people with past trauma to take their expensive courses and to work for them, all with the promise of healing them through “orgasmic meditation” — or OM.
The women have pleaded not guilty and maintained members took part in sex acts consensually. They face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted at the six-week trial.
Jurors have heard from one witness so far, Becky, who claims she was “brainwashed” and got herself into crippling debt buying Daedone’s pricy courses after joining the group in 2011.
Becky — whose full name is being withheld — claims she was forced to start working in sales at OneTaste the following year to help pay for the coaching, which in total ran her between $15,000 to $20,000.
And Becky testified that she was expected to OM with “anybody off the street” during sessions where someone would stroke her genitals or where she was expected to stimulate someone else’s genitals.
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