OneTaste founder Nicole Daedone and former sales director Rachel Cherwitz were indicted on Tuesday, June 6 by the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) on unfounded allegations of forced labor. Given OneTaste’s culture of empowerment, choice, and consent, this is both inconsistent with our core values and utterly unjustified. Five years ago, the FBI began an investigation into OneTaste that was wholly based on an error-riddled Bloomberg Businessweek article that contained false, and since-debunked, accusations of harm and wrongdoing. The EDNY subsequently followed through, basing their work on the Bloomberg Businessweek piece and relying upon reporting from other copycat media stories, culminating in the indictments that were just unsealed. We have cooperated with the EDNY throughout the investigation. We are appalled by the outcome of what seems to be a long-term, misogynistic endeavor designed to tear down a feminine empowerment project and the women who built it.

OneTaste is a women-led organization that has devoted itself to wellness, healing, inclusion, personal growth, and has always had female empowerment at its core. The practice of Orgasmic Meditation (“OM”) has been misunderstood and maligned despite ever-expanding scientific evidence demonstrating its beneficial impact. OneTaste, under its current ownership, has strived to improve, listen to criticism, adjust, and evolve in ways that bring those myriad benefits to many more people. They practice OM on their own time and on their own terms. This is our continuing mission. We remain undeterred even as we commit to fully defend ourselves and the practice that has transformed our lives, in the face of a multi-year, media-instigated campaign.

Below you will find documentation that provides complete transparency with regard to our business. If you would like to discuss anything further, we welcome hearing from you at [email protected].

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Sincerely,

Anjuli, Amanda and Austin