Posted on 03/15/2009 6:20:44 PM PDT by reaganaut1
San Francisco
Even in a culture in which sex toys are a booming business and Oprah Winfrey discusses living your best life in the bedroom, a coed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm hovers at the extremes.
The founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, Nicole Daedone, sees herself as leading “the slow-sex movement,” one that places a near-exclusive emphasis on women’s pleasure — in which love, romance and even flirtation are not required.
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A core of 38 men and women — their average age the late 20s — live full time in the retreat center, a shabby-chic loft building in the South of Market district. They prepare meals together, practice yoga and mindfulness meditation and lead workshops in communication for outside groups as large as 60.
But the heart of the group’s activity, listed cryptically on its Web site’s calendar as “morning practice,” is closed to all but the residents.
At 7 a.m. each day, as the rest of America is eating Cheerios or trying to face gridlock without hyperventilating, about a dozen women, naked from the waist down, lie with eyes closed in a velvet-curtained room, while clothed men huddle over them, stroking them in a ritual known as orgasmic meditation — “OMing,” for short. The couples, who may or may not be romantically involved, call one another “research partners.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They must telecommute to work... :-)
They probably have a taxpayer-funded, government grant for their “research”.
The men do, at 7am. Didn’t you read the article?:)
Recycled Hippies. They’re all about recycling, Man. They’ve even raised their GRANDCHILDREN to be ‘recycled and expendable.’ :)
What sad, shallow, hollow, meaningless lives...
And we, the TAXPAYER are undoubtedly supporting them in one way or another. *Rolleyes*
We don’t need jobs “O” has up covered!
Hmmmm...one taste and you don't come back for more?
“...Her pathway back to life was initially Buddhism, which she pursued with a vengeance, intending to live in a Zen community. But at a party in 1998, she met a Buddhist who had a practice in what he called “contemplative sexuality...”
It’s a shame that they invent this nonsense to kid themselves, and call it “Buddhism.” It is no different than if someone entered a Christian Convent or Seminary and said they were going to practice “comtemplative sexuality” there.
Women will never get as much pleasure from this, as they do from telling their husbands to clean the garage.
What sad, shallow, hollow, meaningless lives...
Great Gary Numan album, one of the first great all-electronic albums.
Oh, this was about something else?
“One Taste Urban Retreat Center”
“Hmmmm...one taste and you don’t come back for more?”
I hope it’s not fish.
Here "was" a regular participant.
I'd have guessed they were all hairy, flabby, hippie chicks who reeked of patchouli and B.O.
Why is it that the only people on the planet for whom sex is new are liberals??
Everything they do involves sex.
“The notion of a San Francisco sex commune focused on female orgasm is part of a long and rich history of women being public and empowered about their sexuality,” said Elizabeth A. Armstrong, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, who has studied San Francisco’s sexual subcultures.One has to wonder if Liz is jealous.
LOL. They've been doing it all this time and apparently haven't figured out a couple problems with their program.
They'd have to change a few things before I want to join their movement.
I never liked Cheerios.
LOL!
Mine was telling my husband that our toddler was too old for diapers, so HE had to handle all the toilet training for the boy.
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