If you're anything like us, hearing the phrase "orgasmic meditation" probably made you do a double take. But surprisingly, it's a real thing. Indeed, people are straight-up stroking each other's genitals as a form of meditation. Honestly, we're not even all that shocked. We mean, Donald Trump is running for president. Anything's possible these days. Anyway, here's everything you need to know about orgasmic meditation, a stimulating 15-minute practice that's primary goal is to get you to climax.
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What is it? Founded by 46-year-old Nicole Daedone, OneTaste is a San Francisco-based organization that is dedicated to researching and teaching the practices of slow sex and orgasmic meditation (OM). "Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is a consciousness practice that is designed for singles and couples to experience more connection, vitality, pleasure, and meaning in every aspect of their lives,” the website states. "A partner strokes a woman’s clitoris for 15 minutes with no goal other than to feel, connect and be present. With practice, you develop a larger state of consciousness, have better intimacy, and stronger connections.” The business originally operated two communal-style "urban retreat" centers, one in San Francisco’s Soma District and the other on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, but has since expanded to include more than eight other cities around the world.
Nicole Daedone. Daedone is the founder and CEO of OneTaste, the author of "Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm” and a TEDx speaker. Her past greatly influenced the development of OM: "When she was in her mid-20s, her father, who had always been a distant figure in her life, went to prison for molesting two girls,” Gawker writer Nitasha Tiku explains in her article “My Life With the Thrill-Clit Cult.” "She said he never behaved inappropriately to her; they had long been estranged. At 27, she learned that he was dying of cancer and only had hours to live. That trauma propelled her to study at what she called a 'mystery school of theosophical studies,’ then graduating to Buddhism and celibacy before finding orgasmic meditation.”
The cure for untouched female hunger. In a 2011 speech for TEDx SF that has since been viewed more than half a million times, Daedone laments what she refers to as the Western woman’s mantra: “I work too hard, I eat too much, I diet too much, I drink too much, I shop too much, I give too much. And still there's this sense of hunger I can't touch.” Daedone teaches what she believes is the cure for that untouched female hunger: a "brief ritual, performed with a partner."
How it works. When the OM session is over, both partners share their experiences verbally. Daedone believes that the "resonance" between two partners is crucial to the experience of shared sensation, and describes the practice as “designed to keep a woman on a plateau of sensation."
Therapeutic, rather than sexual. Instead of porn-like climaxes, the orgasms are more sensuous, purportedly triggering the limbic depths of the brain and releasing a flood of oxytocin, activating bonding between participants. Daedone originally presented OneTaste as a spiritual practice, like yoga or meditation. Today, however, the practice is taught as a technological innovation — sort of like a body-hack to happiness
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