Michal Neria came to OneTaste because she could not have an orgasm.
She stayed a few months. After leaving, she has done everything she can to destroy OneTaste. She has gone to Bloomberg and the BBC to tell her story. Then, she sued OneTaste.
One thing is true: She got what she came for: Orgasms.
Michal Neria had serious mental health issues.
Struggling with Mental Health Issues
According to her lawsuit, Michal Neria had been “struggling” with “mental health issues” long before she discovered OneTaste.
She “suffered from clinical depression and sexual dysfunction,” the lawsuit admits.
“I started taking antidepressants at the age of 15,,” she told the BBC.
Bloomberg News wrote: “At age 28, Michal had been in a few long-term relationships, but she always felt self-conscious about her body and about asking for what she wanted during sex. She’d also never had an orgasm.”
She tried sleeping around and wild partying.
Neria said, “The most sensational sex I used to have was when I was fucked up on alcohol or drugs.” But no matter how drunk or high, or sober, she couldn’t have an orgasm.
She had heard about it, but it never happened to her.
Neria told the BBC that her quest for an orgasm led her to “two different psychiatrists” and “a women’s health clinic in New York City.”
She wasn’t clear, she told the BBC, whether her inability to have an orgasm was “because I was taking antidepressants or was because I was like inhibited in some way, or maybe was not able to have one at all…. Doctors didn’t really seem to know what to do.”
The Journey to OneTaste
But orgasms were deeply important to her. She’d heard about them, but she never had one.
She told BBC: “I felt really a lot of, kind of, internal pressure to solve this.”
She also heard about OneTaste and Orgasmic Meditation (OM), a partnered practice that involves the stimulation of the clitoris in a prescribed manner for 15 minutes by a male participant.
“It sounded kind of creepy,” she told the BBC “… But I think what appealed to me was that there is maybe something to be done about my issue.”
She went to a OneTaste event in late 2014 with the sole purpose of finding out why she, of all women, could not have an orgasm, and by some great luck, after the experts failed, could find out what an orgasm was by actually having one.
She told the BBC about her first experience with OneTaste:
“I remember that like everybody looked very bright and energized, and the women seemed extremely confident and friendly. Yeah, there was just a lot of energy, you know. They knew how to make it feel like a party and make it feel very upbeat… it was kind of like a celebration. And so that, you know, for me that was powerful because for so many years, I felt like I had to like whisper and nudge about it.”
Neria did her first Orgasmic Meditation.at an Intro to OM class in New York.
She told the BBC: “I never in my life before was told to just lay on my back, close my eyes and just feel when somebody touches me. I felt new sensations in my body that I’ve never felt before.”
Michal Neria with one of her OM partners.
The Irony of Orgasmic Success
In her lawsuit, she claims she “participated in her first OM during the class, but she did not find it appealing.”
But she did not come to find the practice appealing. She came to find the ability to orgasm.
But it wasn’t as bad as all that.
Neria told the BBC:
“I didn’t feel much that first time, it wasn’t like, sexually pleasing. But what was exhilarating was this kind of, feeling of freedom and agency, and that I was doing something to help myself and that I wasn’t ashamed of my body.”
Michal had her first orgasm because of OneTaste, and the quest that tormented her for years was gone.
She told the BBC: “Before OM, I did not climax in sex or by myself and I thought I could not have an Orgasm… OM helped me reconnect and move the electricity in my body.”
Even the biased Bloomberg article admitted OneTaste had delivered what Neria came to OneTaste to acquire: “OMing did allow her to reach orgasm,” then added in its ever-biased way, “but only rarely.”
But it was not so rare as what Neria led Bloomberg to believe: Within just a few months of taking classes and practicing OM, Neria answered a OneTaste questionnaire.
One question was: “How would you describe your orgasm now?”
She answered: “Electric, strong willed, rich, juicy, expanding, high and low frequency.”
In describing her newfound ability to orgasm, she wrote that she had some insights into why it was so hard for her to have orgasms in the past. She found the answer after she had multiple orgasms with a man she found unappealing. She had those orgasms with him, she wrote, “because it feels taboo… (and in my mind climaxing is taboo).”
She also explained why she is not a reliable source for the media or could be an honest plaintiff. She wrote, “I tend to go to victimhood rather than someone who takes responsibility for her own reality.”
And “I lie when I don’t feel safe to fully stand up for my desires because I worry that people will judge me for them.”
She clarified that ‘Yes’ means ‘Yes,’ and ‘No’ means ‘No,’ when she answered the question, “What are your hard No’s and boundaries? with “acquiescing to sex if there isn’t true desire or consent.”
Michal Neria
Neria’s Victimhood Narrative
After she left OneTaste, she told the BBC: “I think a practice like OM, like orgasmic meditation, is actually a great practice. It tells women that, ‘Hey, you don’t need this like sexy bra and underwear in order to, you know, look beautiful’, but I think that it should be done with somebody that you know very well and that you trust.”
Of course, she had to play victim, because that’s what she does.
She told BBC: “So, it’s a really sad thing. You know, for me, for example, now, I can’t go back and do that practice again, because it’s just it’s too many bad memories and bad associations.”
In her calculating and ungrateful way, Neria is suing OneTaste for delivering to her what she had asked for – orgasms – through a practice she called “great.”
Michal Neria
Playing the Victim and Telling Lies
In Michal Neria, we see a woman who becomes a victim rather than taking responsibility for her reality, lying rather than standing up for her desires, and worrying that people will judge her. Yet, as for the latter, she has entered the public arena with provable falsehoods and invited a jury will judge her.
In our next post, we will examine more of her story. But keep in mind as we do, that Michal Neria came to OneTaste with one very specific goal in mind and OneTaste delivered.
It is the overarching key to her story. She came for an orgasm and she orgasmed. She found out she could. She found out why she couldn’t in the past. And her guilt, because she did things to get orgasm, and to hold on to it, to be able to have it again, she did things that to her were taboo.
Afterward, she had guilt and regret and played the victim.
She came to OneTaste with guilt and regret that she could not have an orgasm. She left OneTaste with guilt and regret that she had found orgasms and for her it was, the act itself, was “taboo.”
Like the genie who came out of the bottle, OneTaste granted her what she thought was an impossible wish. In her characteristic way, rather than show gratitude, she turned again to rend them.
