Ellen Huet’s Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult traces how OneTaste’s promise to change the world through orgasmic meditation spiraled into what former members describe as a cult of abuse and coercion. Drawing on years of reporting, Huet delivers an account of wellness gone wrong, recounting the sexual, emotional, and financial turmoil OneTaste caused for so many. A deeply researched exploration of the multibillion-dollar wellness industry, Amy Larocca’s How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time examines how wellness has shaped our ideas of health and self-care. Larocca peels back the layers of the $3.7 trillion movement, tracing its promises, profits, and history while exposing how the business of self-care preys on fear.
Buy Empire of Orgasm: Sex Power and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult – Huet
Buy How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic One Dubious Cure at a Time – Larocca
ELLEN HUET covers technology and Silicon Valley for Bloomberg News. She was the host of the first season of the Bloomberg Technology podcast Foundering, which covered the fall of WeWork, and previously worked as a crime and breaking-news reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in San Francisco.
