My life inside the bizarre orgasm cult
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Ruwan Meepagala’s first involvement with an international sex cult began with a Ted Talk.
Lacking in confidence from a young age, he’d become hooked on self-improvement videos online, watching them two or three times a day while eating lunch or dinner.
By chance, Ruwan clicked on one lecture entitled ‘Orgasm: The Cure to the Hunger in Western Women’ and was immediately drawn in.
The video, which was made by Nicole Daedone, founder of sexual wellness company OneTaste, appealed to him as he’d always felt inhibited and unable to connect with women. Although he was in a relationship at the time, it wasn’t a happy one and the then-23-year-old struggled with erectile dysfunction.
When an email promoting one of OneTaste’s orgasmic meditation courses arrived in his inbox, Ruwan was even more intrigued.
The practice, which helped people achieve a sense of bliss by genital stroking, started in the hippy communes of 1960s California, but in the 00s Nicole had rebranded it as part of her sexual wellness company, which went onto become a multi-million dollar business endorsed by Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.
Feeling he had nothing to lose, Ruwan signed up for a session in New York in September 2012, getting tickets for him and his then-girlfriend – who didn’t show up on the day.
Instead, Ruwan nervously attended the 90-minute session alone. There, attendees asked each other personal questions and games where they were encouraged to tell other something they wouldn’t normally share.
‘I thought I would learn about sex and connection but instead I experienced group vulnerability for the first time. It scared me – but also excited me,’ Ruwan, 37, tells Metro over Zoom from his home in New York.
Within weeks of the course, a OneTaste rep had called him up offering a $50 discount on the $150 How-to OM [orgasmic mediation] course. Feeling he had nothing to lose, Ruwan signed up and found himself taking part in his first genital stroking exercise with a bunch of strangers.
At the session, the young man watched as a woman lay spread-eagled on a white sheet on a massage table with her vulva exposed, while Nicole stroked her and brought her to orgasm.
Later, he was partnered up with a woman who would be the ‘strokee’. She climbed into a nest of yoga pillows and together they followed the ten-step process, which included consent, applying latex gloves and lube and eventual climax.
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