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OneTaste Founder Nicole Daedone Gets 9-Year Prison Sentence

The government's case against two orgasmic meditation executives has been an affront to feminism, free speech, and freedom of conscience.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.30.2026 3:39 PM

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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 (OM) 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.

In this case, no one has accused Daedone and her colleague/co-defendant Rachel Cherwitz of violence. No one has accused them of confining victims, or of withholding identity documents or other items that employees........

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