First you had my interest, now you've got my attention.
Short version: a man named Vic Baranco had some kind of enlightenment experience in the 60s and convinced a bunch of hippies to buy and renovate property for him while diddling each other and teaching courses in how to diddle and how to think about diddling correctly. These properties are called Morehouses, which makes it confusing to google because you get a lot of stuff about the college.
A man named RJ Testerman took some Morehouse courses in the 80s and used the diddling info to exert more control over the women he was already abusing and to get more women to abuse. His organization is called the Welcomed Consensus; it has recently closed up shop under that name, but his daughters, Mallie and Ginger/ Gia Lynne Testerman, have already tried to sell themselves as sexperts completely disconnected from the organization and this will probably continue.
I don't remember the exact timeline for Daedone's interactions with both organizations, but I'm pretty sure she lived with both groups, and there's a story about her getting close to Baranco at the end of his life and trying to use this position to take over, but I don't know if it's true. However, all the sexual material in One Taste comes ultimately from Baranco, either directly from Morehouse courses or indirectly from Welcomed Consensus courses, which are copies of Morehouse courses.
A woman who was groomed and turned out by Testerman starting at 12 has written an excellent blog ,covering mostly her personal experiences, and also featuring some of the general history; it's worth reading but it's not linear. I thnk she talks about Daedone's residence at a Welcomed Consensus house in here, she definitely talks about her.
These organizations have a lot of overlap with Landmark Forum although there is no formal relationship. Another organization with a lot of overlap, and which does similar creepy sex stuff, is the Human Awareness Institute, but again there's no formal relationship. There's also overlap with Harvey Jackins' organization Re-evaluation Counseling, and members of the spinoff co-counseling groups from that group tend to take Morehouse or Morehouse-style sex courses.
Most people selling any information on any kind of deliberate orgasmic practice, or who do any kind of pleasure centered life coaching or selfhelp, got their stuff either directly from Baranco, from his associates, or from people like Testerman who use the material without attribution. The most famous example is probably Tim Ferriss who I think does acknowledge the source but I haven't read any of his stuff so I don't know for sure.
There are a number of podcasts who have done one-off episodes interviewing ex-members of these groups but unfortunately even the most wellmeaning podcasters get a little distracted by the freak show elements and tend to miss the specific sexual mind control elements; I think this is partially because we have been conditioned to associate increased sexual pleasure with liberation and the good life and regular people have a lot of cognitive dissonance when presented with coercive organizations that control via sexual pleasure instead of via denying sexual pleasure.
In the early days of One Taste in SF it was very clear to me that everyone would recognize it as a cult if the sex element were removed, but that people were giving them a pass because there was sex stuff. This is, of course, exactly what goes on with violent imagery and treatment of women - unacceptable unless it's for cooming - and similar to drag queen story hour type stuff - creepy sex pests near your kids are unacceptable unless it's somehow about gay rights.
There's also a lot of overlap with early Scientology, and organizations created and run by people purged early on by Hubbard, like the Berkeley Psychic Institute.
The connection between this stuff and MK Ultra is something I have pondered since I was a small barleyrugsoap and is left as an exercise to the reader.
