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Then, you have to actually trace it and you have to do it in significant numbers such that car thieves are going to be deterred,” Bazelon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the strategy is unlikely to be successful, especially when over 80% of San Francisco’s auto burglaries are currently unsolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bazelon noted that it is very difficult to get statistics for how well bait-car programs work, partly because only a small number of vehicles are used. 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People smash and grab in a very efficient way.’[/pullquote]Bazelon said the other problem is that people committing car break-ins in the city are not deterred from stopping partly because of the low clearance rates, which include the initial arrest, prosecution and conviction of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, [the clearance rate] was hovering around 9%,” she said. “So, if you have a 91% chance of getting away with a crime, you’re not going to be deterred by the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, however, said he is confident that with additional funding from the city budget and two police academies graduating this fall, SFPD will be ready to use these new tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the department plans to use bait cars immediately, but didn’t specify the details of the operation to ensure would-be car thieves aren’t privy to the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the first half of 2023, 473 people — at least — died from accidental drug overdose in San Francisco, according to the medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority (80%) of those deaths involved\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fentanyl\"> fentanyl\u003c/a>, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin. This year, the overdose rate is currently on pace to be the highest for overdose deaths in the city’s history, exceeding the record set in 2020 when 725 people died due to drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose epidemic in San Francisco has continued to escalate despite attempts from city leaders to expand access to treatment and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">tap the National Guard\u003c/a> to throttle drug supply trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is bleak, but it’s not without hope. Recovery is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What follows is the story of three San Francisco residents, who share their journey through recovery and life beyond drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is publishing these stories on Aug. 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, and the week the Biden administration has designated to “honor and remember those who have lost their lives to the drug overdose epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jean\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long been a city where people come to reinvent themselves. Sometimes, it just takes a little while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Jean, now 60, a mother and longtime San Francisco resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean, who is not using her last name to protect her privacy, grew up in Berkeley and faced numerous traumatizing experiences, including abuse at a young age. She started consuming drugs at just 9 years old to cope with feelings and cover up shame. Over the years, Jean developed addictions to cocaine, alcohol and heroin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jean, San Francisco resident in recovery\"]‘I sought help because I knew that I couldn’t get out of my drug addiction by myself. … It can be a new beginning, and the energy you put into that, you’re going to get back.’[/pullquote]“I basically did a lot of things in order to support a heroin habit and a cocaine habit and alcohol. And it just got progressively worse,” Jean told KQED of her experience with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was diagnosed with cancer later on in her life, she thought she might not make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jean defied the odds she gave herself and beat cancer. Armed with a new perspective, she decided it was time to fight her addiction, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started by going to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and asking for help. There, she got connected to an \u003ca href=\"https://dsaam.org/otop/\">outpatient treatment program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sought help because I knew that I couldn’t get out of my drug addiction by myself,” she said. “I got help and throughout that process. I learned about addiction. I learned that it’s a disease, it’s something that you can work through and that doesn’t have to take all your life away. It can be a new beginning, and the energy you put into that, you’re going to get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through her treatment, Jean was connected to substance-use counselors like Louie Ramos and had access to medications that helped ease cravings and withdrawal. She also participated in a detox program at \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthright360.org/\">HealthRight360\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides mental health therapy and substance-use treatment for extremely low-income residents in San Francisco and other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Jean is living a life she once couldn’t imagine: sober and living on her own in an apartment near the Giants’ baseball stadium. She’s established a new community of friends who support her changes and understand the challenges she faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants other people in similar positions to know they can do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two people walk down a hallway beneath a banner that reads \"Welcome to OTOP.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68433_230829-ODAwareness-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean, 60, walks with counselor Louie Ramos, UCSF/OTOP clinical supervisor, through the Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program (OTOP) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a way out. There is freedom from addiction. It’s possible to come out from under fentanyl. You really just have to keep putting your best foot forward,” Jean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jean walked into San Francisco General on her own, San Francisco has a handful of teams that respond to overdoses and drug-related medical problems on the street. They include the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/street-overdose-response-team\">Street Overdose Response Team\u003c/a>, Post Overdose Engagement Team, and the Bridge and Engagement Services Team Neighborhoods program, which aims to identify individuals who may be in crisis and connect them to long-term behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting connected to methadone, a medication that can help relieve addiction cravings and withdrawal symptoms, was a crucial stepping stone in recovering from addiction, Jean said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Louie Ramos, substance-use counselor, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital\"]‘I’ve been doing this job for many years, and I just want people to know that recovery is very possible. Treatment is accessible.’[/pullquote]San Francisco has been simultaneously working to expand ways people can get connected to methadone and other medication-assisted treatments for drug addiction, through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941618/sfs-mobile-clinics-made-opioid-treatment-more-accessible-during-the-pandemic-but-will-they-stay\">mobile clinics\u003c/a>, longer open hours at brick-and-mortar clinics in the city and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">delivery services in supportive housing buildings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing this job for many years, and I just want people to know that recovery is very possible. Treatment is accessible,” said Ramos, who is a clinical site supervisor for one of San Francisco General’s mobile methadone clinics in the Bayview. “A lot of people are reluctant to seek services, and you don’t want to force or impose. It takes a while to build trust and not everybody is able to do everything at once. You have to walk with them continuously, through the ups and downs, [and] let them know they are not being judged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a linear path to where she is today. At several points since deciding she wanted to quit using, Jean relapsed. One time, it happened after someone she knew sexually assaulted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went towards street drugs to ease my pain instead of reaching out to the recovery community, so it led me down a path that took a long time to come out of,” Jean said, after an appointment with her counselor on a recent Wednesday afternoon. “But I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juliana and Michael\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Juliana, 29, and her partner Michael, 31, fell in love dancing at raves and music festivals in their early 20s. Michael worked up the courage to talk to her at a show in Las Vegas, and the two kept in touch at various music events. The two made their relationship official after attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was super beautiful, and I just knew that she was really cool. She liked the same things as me,” Michael said. “After Coachella, I was like, I got to make her my girlfriend.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juliana, San Francisco resident in recovery\"]‘The three things we always made sure we had were a car, a hotel and drugs, always.’[/pullquote]The duo had fun getting lost in the music together. But drugs were common in the festival scene, and Michael already struggled with an addiction to smoking oxycontin when they met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana eventually consumed harder drugs with Michael, including heroin and fentanyl, and the two spent several years drifting between family members’ houses in San José and Santa Rosa, and many nights in and out of jail for drug use and shoplifting. They talked about getting help and quitting drugs, but it still felt too far off, and too expensive, so they delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The three things we always made sure we had were a car, a hotel and drugs, always,” Juliana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, they stayed in hotels in San Francisco. But their lives suddenly changed one day in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana felt an extremely sharp pain in her abdomen and checked into the hospital. There, she discovered that she not only was pregnant, but was in labor and about to give birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wasn’t active in my stomach, and I didn’t have morning sickness. I didn’t really have the regular pregnancy signs,” said Juliana, referring to her baby girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael was equally shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two adults and one infant sit on the floor and play together with blocks.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68426_230829-ODAwareness-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juliana and Michael play blocks with their daughter Paloma at their home in San Francisco on Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we had known that we were having a baby, I would have been too scared to be a father. I wasn’t ready. But it just happened all of the sudden. They let me in and said, congratulations, you have a daughter. I felt a connection immediately, her smile, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I have a daughter.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child protective services and Family Treatment Court quickly approached them, helping create a plan for how they would re-establish their lives together and welcome home their baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana and Michael entered treatment and joined groups to help them in their recovery. That included living at \u003ca href=\"https://www.hamiltonfamilies.org/\">Hamilton Families\u003c/a>, a transitional housing program where they stayed while starting their recovery journey.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael, San Francisco resident in recovery\"]‘We basically had to learn how to be a couple again, without the drugs, because that was part of our relationship for so long. We had to relearn how to be a normal couple, and not only that, but parents.’[/pullquote]Meanwhile, Juliana worked with \u003ca href=\"https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/san-francisco-general-hospital/team-lily\">Team Lily, a group at San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> that supports pregnant people and new parents who are experiencing homelessness, substance-use disorders, incarceration and other challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like Jean, Michael and Juliana relapsed during their effort to stay sober. 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The commune and sexual wellness company sold courses and coaching promoting sexual empowerment and so-called “orgasmic meditation,” a ritual where a group of women would lie naked from the waist down while men wearing clothes would stroke the women’s genitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former employees said OneTaste took advantage of people with sexual trauma, subjecting members and employees to surveillance, plus emotional, physical and psychological abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before her “orgasmic meditation” startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/inside-hollywoods-orgasm-cult/\">took off in Hollywood circles\u003c/a> — and recently came crashing down — Daedone learned the basis for her business model and orgasmic meditation techniques, former affiliates told KQED, while living for two years with the San Francisco-based\u003ca href=\"https://www.welcomed.com/\"> The Welcomed Consensus\u003c/a>, a much older organization that sold thousand-dollar courses promising sexual pleasure, social empowerment and freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than enlightenment, however, nearly a dozen ex-members, students and other affiliates have come forward to tell KQED about a consistent pattern of psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of the Welcomed Consensus, and its leader Robert “RJ” Testerman, over the past three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Nicole news, I mean, it made me feel like RJ has done all of this times a hundred, and he’s still doing it,” said Sasha Nelson, who lived with the Welcomed Consensus for about four months at their house in the Glen Park neighborhood in 2018, after a member recruited her via Tinder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people with long hair sit next to each other at a table and look and look at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Talbott Acosta (left) and Sasha Nelson sit in Christine’s home in San Francisco. 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At its classes and recruiting events, the Welcomed Consensus taught “DOing,” essentially stroking a person’s genitals — most often it would be a man touching a woman. “DO” stood for “deliberate orgasm,” a term still actively trademarked by the Welcomed Consensus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23892105-trademark-electronic-search-system-tess\">according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former affiliates of Daedone’s say the model was the foundation for her company’s orgasmic meditation or “OMing” practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While keeping a lower profile these days, the Welcomed Consensus has continued recruiting for a different era, now through social media, online dating apps and volunteer programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Wild West’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Christine Talbott Acosta was a member and former recruiter for the Welcomed Consensus. Born and raised in Redwood City, she was initially connected to Testerman while babysitting for a woman who was a family friend of his, while he was working in San Francisco as a hairdresser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was 32 and I was 12, and the first time we had sex, it was three months after my 13th birthday,” said Talbott Acosta, who is now 57 and continues to live in San Francisco. “At 16, my life kind of crumbled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’80s, Talbott Acosta was kicked out of her high school and left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was free drug use where I babysat, and I smoked and drank with RJ. They gave me acid when I was 15,” Talbott Acosta said. “They treated me like an adult and encouraged it. He taught me to lie, and I couldn’t tell anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She briefly lived in the Tenderloin near Post and Polk Streets. Testerman helped Talbott Acosta acquire birth control, then began prostituting her when she turned 17, she claims. At 18, she also began working as a hairdresser for Testerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their belief was that you’re born fully responsible [to have sex],” Talbott Acosta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this time, Talbott Acosta grew estranged from her family, something common among Welcomed Consensus members she has encountered over the years. The distance strengthened the pull Testerman had over her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my world. I worked for him and he was my lover and my dad and my family, really, my family,” Talbott Acosta said. “RJ referred to that time as the Wild West. We didn’t have any structure, it was just a sex commune with lots of drinking and drugs and violence and drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair looks out of a window in a residential setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Talbott Acosta stands in her home in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talbott Acosta then moved into a house near Oak and Fell streets that was affiliated with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913686/this-bay-area-sex-loving-commune-is-still-going-strong\">East Bay sex commune\u003c/a> called Lafayette Morehouse, which taught and sold sex classes through its so-called More University that began in 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone at her new house was taking classes from More University, with topics ranging from “Advanced Sensuality” to “Expansion of Sexual Potential.” Elite members of Morehouse lived at the commune’s larger property in Lafayette.[aside postID=news_11913686 label='More on Lafayette Morehouse']At around age 20, Talbott Acosta began living with Testerman at a house on Joost Avenue in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood with about seven others while working for him at the hair salon. It was there in the early ’90s that Testerman formed the Welcomed Consensus, using the teachings and financial models he learned with More University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was word for word,” Talbott Acosta said of how the Welcomed Consensus model is based on More University. She added, however, that she never experienced the rigid rules over sex, food, clothing or pressure to leave family with More University as she did with Welcomed Consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Daedone would also become affiliated with both Morehouse and the Welcomed Consensus before launching her own version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Welcomed Consensus’ inner circle had to pass what was referred to as “validation,” which required performing a three-hour long orgasm in private with Welcomed Consensus members as well as a one-hour orgasm demonstration as part of a public course offering, Talbott Acosta said. Women in the house would take turns performing DOing at workshops, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the inner circle typically lived at the Glen Park house. The group later bought a ranch in far Northern California near the community of Klamath River in rural Siskiyou County, called A Madrone Ranch and Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former members described typical Welcomed Consensus lessons as a scene where a group of men and women would gather in a room, and men would practice stroking the clitoris of an assigned female partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would get the guys to come in and then all the women in the house would be who they practice on,” Talbott Acosta recalled.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christine Talbott Acosta, former Welcomed Consensus member\"]‘That was the big hook. These guys who had been coming and ogling at you could do this. If you lived in the house, you were a shill they used as bait to bring guys in.’[/pullquote]For years, Talbott Acosta floated in and out of the Welcomed Consensus community, recruiting new members and participating in classes even as she moved out with a spouse and focused on having her own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers one particular meeting with Testerman that influenced her split from the group, but it still took years to leave behind that life, even after moving out of the Glen Park house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RJ just hit me so hard… that I couldn’t imagine doing it again,” Talbott Acosta said of one particular DOing session where he repeatedly slapped her genitals. “The idea of taking my clothes off all of a sudden in public just had me really scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a “touch and look” course, where Welcomed Consensus students who reached a certain level in the courses could stroke and touch women who lived at the house, like Talbott Acosta, on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the big hook,” Talbott Acosta said. “These guys who had been coming and ogling at you could do this. If you lived in the house, you were a shill they used as bait to bring guys in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11956446 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A house in a residential neighborhoods with a verdant front garden.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">827 Joost Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood, the house owned by the Welcomed Consensus where members of the group’s inner circle typically lived. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She tried to take on other roles at the house, like cooking, but even then she was required to wear a French maid’s outfit. Any time she objected, she said, “I was told this is my resistance to pleasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after leaving the group, Talbott Acosta reported the abuses she faced there to local police in Redwood City and San Francisco. Her reports fell beyond California’s statute of limitations, so she says police told her she would need evidence of Testerman admitting to the abuse, which she did not have. The cases went nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later tried reaching out to five different law firms to see if she had a civil case she could try, but hit wall after wall with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Welcomed Consensus and OneTaste\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sasha Nelson grew up in Berlin and traveled all over the world before landing a corporate job in Sonoma County. She didn’t like her static lifestyle, and heard about OneTaste from friends taking workshops. She wanted the freedom and sexual empowerment it advertised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She attended an OMing workshop with OneTaste and said their sorority-rush-like efforts to recruit her were “intoxicating” at first. She described the group as “a typical cult vibe, everyone was euphoric and excited and giddy and making friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she arrived at her first gathering, “you do this horrifying exercise and all these women are taking off their pants in a warehouse of 200 people, getting stroked in front of everybody,” Nelson said. “My first experience was with a man I had an aversion to the entire weekend, but after I felt really close to him and felt like ‘wow, there’s something really to this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went on, she became less charmed by the large group events and felt disconnected from the strangers she was having sexual encounters with at the workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the fall of 2017, she matched with a man named Bill Berndt on Tinder. Text messages shared with KQED show he told her that he was in a sensuality community, and she was curious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had liked the concept that was taught in Nicole [Daedone’s] workshop, but I didn’t like the scene,” Nelson said of the OneTaste event. “I thought, ‘Oh, here’s maybe another way to explore that. Like a little smaller group.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Welcomed Consensus pushed much harder to recruit Nelson, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard for me to believe these women would mislead me,” she told KQED. “It was a higher level of recruiting and grooming” than she experienced at the OneTaste workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began traveling to San Francisco for weekly “BenchMarks,” essentially cocktail-party-like recruitment gatherings led by Testerman and women who lived at Welcomed Consensus’ house on Joost in Glen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BenchMarks were the first step in recruitment. Before each meeting, members would discuss who would be in attendance that night, remind each other to be happy and bubbly and not share any negatives about the group, and ultimately, bring in new members with money to spend, multiple former affiliates told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A primary viewpoint of the group is that fun, turned-on women always enthusiastically say ‘Yes’ to offers,” Nelson told KQED. “By saying, ‘No, thank you,’ you are seen as out of agreement, resistant, or just plain unfun… Nobody wants to be deemed unattractive or unfun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair looks out of a window in a residential setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Nelson sits in the home of Christine Talbott Acosta in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nelson was persuaded to move into the Welcomed Consensus’ San Francisco house in 2018, but left after four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often physically exhausted while living there — something other former members said was common in the early days of living among the Welcomed Consensus. Like sex, food was strictly controlled in the house, and women’s bodies were heavily scrutinized around weight, Nelson remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RJ likes skinny girls, that was one of the unspoken rules,” Nelson said. “You would really be pressured to eat the food being made, yet you were also not allowed to be fat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former student named Allyson told KQED she witnessed Testerman, wearing cowboy boots, repeatedly kick a household member who was on the floor. KQED is only using Allyson’s first name due to personal safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Nelson was being groomed by the Welcomed Consensus, OneTaste was booming. It was still edgy, but good marketing helped it inch its way toward mainstream acceptance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15commune.html\">profiles in publications like \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — and it made lots of money along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Daedone herself was a student with the Welcomed Consensus in the late 1990s and early 2000s, multiple sources told KQED, including a former housemate of hers and a colleague at OneTaste. Talbott Acosta described her mission with OneTaste as attempting to make the courses scalable, startup-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nicole took the Welcomed Consensus information and put her own twist on it. She used a lot of the same stuff, the basic business plan, but did change some of it,” Talbott Acosta said. “Her goal was to bring it to the masses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘So much social punishment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After graduating with a degree in ecology during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nat Jennings, then 23, was eager to get out into a world beyond screens to put it to use. In September 2022, she headed to California from Texas to volunteer with A Madrone Ranch and Gardens, which she found through a website that connects volunteers with organic farms to work in exchange for boarding, called Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings signed up to work at the farm — a remote property in rural Siskiyou County owned by the Welcomed Consensus — not knowing anything about the group. These days, she describes the experience as, “accidentally signing up to go live in a sex cult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses inside a room with clothes and chairs and a tall fan.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Jennings stands in her bedroom at A Madrone Ranch and Gardens in Sept. 2022, a property in Klamath River, Siskiyou County, owned by the Welcomed Consensus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nat Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to realize what is happening, and to leave,” Jennings told KQED. “If I didn’t have friends on the outside, if I didn’t have a car there, I could have been trapped and I could have, like, not believed myself because I was struggling with sleep deprivation, overworking, like all these factors that were just kind of convincing me I was the crazy one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few red flags stood out to her during her stay. First was early into her stay when women at the house began insisting that she wear a dress to dinner. When she replied she had come to work and didn’t bring a dress, they gave her one to put on. Jennings said she complied out of pressure, but said the dress felt “horribly inappropriate” and the experience made her feel “very uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another day, she went berry picking with one of the house mates, an older man, and he flashed his gun before asking her to go swimming with him and taking off his shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of love bombing and then taking it away, that type of thing,” Jennings said. Love bombing refers to lavishing someone with affection, and usually revoking that kindness later to manipulate them. “There was so much social punishment if you do anything out of line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses holds a plastic container full of blackberries in a wooded area.\" width=\"1501\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED.jpg 1501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-1153x1536.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1501px) 100vw, 1501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Jennings holds a container of blackberries she picked near A Madrone Ranch and Gardens in Sept. 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nat Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something felt off. So she and another volunteer in the work-away program dug around online and came across Talbott Acosta’s blog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.truthaboutrj.com/\">TruthAboutRJ.com\u003c/a>, where they saw the faces of several people they were staying with and read stories that started similar to their own — but ended badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We read all that and had this mutual panic attack like, ‘We have to leave tomorrow. This is ridiculous,’” Jennings said. “So on day 12, we woke up at 4:45 a.m., packed our bags and ran out to our cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear exactly how many members are still active with the Welcomed Consensus community. Jennings said at least five people were living at the house while she was there and Talbott Acosta believes two new members were validated in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talbot Acosta said she reported the group and its ranch to WWOOF, but no action was taken. As of publication, \u003ca href=\"https://wwoofusa.org/en/host/20952-homestead-garden-vegetables-community-ranchlivestock\">the ranch listing was still active on the volunteer farming program’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WWOOF did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As young women like Jennings have come forward more recently, Talbott Acosta and Nelson fear a new generation of Welcomed Consensus leaders are being elevated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testerman’s daughter, Ginger Mueller-Testerman, completed a master’s thesis in 2021 titled “\u003ca href=\"https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/x633f6180\">Clitoral Analysis: Analysis of Pleasure in Contemporary Sex Instruction Materials\u003c/a>” at San Francisco State in Human Sexuality Studies, where she also taught a course. In Spring 2023, Mueller-Testerman taught a critical studies course including topics on gender and sexual identity at the California College of the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon hearing the news about Daedone and discovering Mueller-Testerman was teaching a course related to sex, Talbott Acosta contacted SF State and CCA to report personal experiences of abuse and recruiting for the Welcomed Consensus alongside Mueller-Testerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State and CCA also declined to comment on Talbott Acosta’s reports, but both schools confirmed she taught courses there last spring and said she was not signed up to teach this fall. Mueller-Testerman declined to comment when reached by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California, cults and the Welcomed Consensus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took decades before Talbott Acosta and her husband Dennis, who she met at the Welcomed Consensus, to fully cut ties with the group. She said it wasn’t until beginning intensive therapy, and having a total emotional breakdown, that she began to see more clearly the abuse that she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was learning about trauma and learning about PTSD and getting the mental health care that I needed to start seeing what was really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley professor who teaches a course called Cults in Popular Culture, said that type of groupthink and pressure that keeps many members inside groups like the Welcomed Consensus is not uncommon in cults or other intentional communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing you have to ask is ‘Why do people join?’ without diagnosing some kind of brainwashing, mis-recognition or stupidity,” Saha told KQED. “If we begin by believing that followers are already in the wrong, we can’t understand what gets someone somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups draw followers by offering big-ticket items. Bliss. Salvation. Wild financial success. But also things that are big-ticket items that we make mundane like true belonging,” she said. “You also have a structure of authority, and huge financial outlays. People have bought in on every level of their social being. And there’s a leader whose power you actually somewhere really begin to adhere to.”[aside postID=news_11705963]California is often the backdrop to popular culture’s obsession with cults, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/manson-family-murders-what-need-to-know-180972655/\">Manson Family\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705963/do-you-really-want-to-know-one-mans-search-for-family-from-jonestown-and-beyond\">People’s Temple\u003c/a> and more. But there’s been a noticeable shift toward financial exploitation of group members, Saha said, which her research shows took off in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the Welcomed Consensus sold their offerings for thousands of dollars. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suit-It-s-hooking-not-sex-training-3055850.php\">One former member, Erwan Davon, even tried to sue Testerman\u003c/a>, court records show, for putting him out of at least $136,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allyson, who worked as a computer programmer before the Welcomed Consensus recruited her, estimated she spent at least $30,000 on courses with the Welcomed Consensus, plus buying a van for their food program. To get OneTaste up and moving, Daedone later convinced her to hand over the $5,000 she had saved in her 401K plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Welcomed Consensus ran a nonprofit out of the house called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freetheneed/\">Free the Need\u003c/a>, through which it claimed to help distribute surplus groceries to hungry families. But multiple former affiliates that spoke to KQED said most of the donated food was kept to feed members of the Welcomed Consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two male sources who were associated with the group told KQED that it was common for leaders to probe recruits about their finances and convince students to pay up. In return, they promised to revolutionize their sex life and relationship to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you couldn’t pay, they would find work for you to do to pay off your debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I refinished the hardwood floors. We wanted to build a subterranean brewery in the backyard, so we literally dug like 15 feet down,” said Dennis Acosta. “Then we realized we were totally insane and covered it all up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testerman sold freedom from mainstream power dynamics and markets, but, Saha argues, groups like his often recreate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not outside of the market logic at all. In fact, it’s a place where the market logic is perfected,” said Saha. “How do you draw someone in? Go out and bring four friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Talbott Acosta is spreading a different message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes people very uncomfortable. But it is important to talk about,” she said. “It’s the only way to let people know that it exists and that it can happen to anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n alleged San Francisco sex cult has attempted to groom new members, multiple sources told KQED, even as one of their most well-known former “students” now faces federal charges for practices many past members say she learned while living with the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 6, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/onetaste-founder-and-former-head-sales-indicted-forced-labor-conspiracy\">Nicole Daedone was indicted on forced labor charges\u003c/a> that include \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-18/the-dark-side-of-onetaste-the-orgasmic-meditation-company\">allegations of sexual and emotional abuse at her company, OneTaste\u003c/a>, which she founded in San Francisco. The commune and sexual wellness company sold courses and coaching promoting sexual empowerment and so-called “orgasmic meditation,” a ritual where a group of women would lie naked from the waist down while men wearing clothes would stroke the women’s genitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former employees said OneTaste took advantage of people with sexual trauma, subjecting members and employees to surveillance, plus emotional, physical and psychological abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before her “orgasmic meditation” startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/inside-hollywoods-orgasm-cult/\">took off in Hollywood circles\u003c/a> — and recently came crashing down — Daedone learned the basis for her business model and orgasmic meditation techniques, former affiliates told KQED, while living for two years with the San Francisco-based\u003ca href=\"https://www.welcomed.com/\"> The Welcomed Consensus\u003c/a>, a much older organization that sold thousand-dollar courses promising sexual pleasure, social empowerment and freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than enlightenment, however, nearly a dozen ex-members, students and other affiliates have come forward to tell KQED about a consistent pattern of psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of the Welcomed Consensus, and its leader Robert “RJ” Testerman, over the past three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Nicole news, I mean, it made me feel like RJ has done all of this times a hundred, and he’s still doing it,” said Sasha Nelson, who lived with the Welcomed Consensus for about four months at their house in the Glen Park neighborhood in 2018, after a member recruited her via Tinder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people with long hair sit next to each other at a table and look and look at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67129_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Talbott Acosta (left) and Sasha Nelson sit in Christine’s home in San Francisco. Nelson and Talbott Acosta were part of a San Francisco-based alleged sex cult known as The Welcome Consensus and are now trying to warn people about abuse within the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED made multiple attempts to reach Testerman at the Welcomed Consensus’ properties in San Francisco and Siskiyou County, but phone calls and emails were not returned. An unnamed person who picked up the phone at a Siskiyou County ranch owned by the Welcomed Consensus declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to OneTaste, the Welcomed Consensus sold courses on sex and held gatherings where men would stroke undressed women. At its classes and recruiting events, the Welcomed Consensus taught “DOing,” essentially stroking a person’s genitals — most often it would be a man touching a woman. “DO” stood for “deliberate orgasm,” a term still actively trademarked by the Welcomed Consensus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23892105-trademark-electronic-search-system-tess\">according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former affiliates of Daedone’s say the model was the foundation for her company’s orgasmic meditation or “OMing” practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While keeping a lower profile these days, the Welcomed Consensus has continued recruiting for a different era, now through social media, online dating apps and volunteer programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Wild West’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Christine Talbott Acosta was a member and former recruiter for the Welcomed Consensus. Born and raised in Redwood City, she was initially connected to Testerman while babysitting for a woman who was a family friend of his, while he was working in San Francisco as a hairdresser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was 32 and I was 12, and the first time we had sex, it was three months after my 13th birthday,” said Talbott Acosta, who is now 57 and continues to live in San Francisco. “At 16, my life kind of crumbled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’80s, Talbott Acosta was kicked out of her high school and left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was free drug use where I babysat, and I smoked and drank with RJ. They gave me acid when I was 15,” Talbott Acosta said. “They treated me like an adult and encouraged it. He taught me to lie, and I couldn’t tell anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She briefly lived in the Tenderloin near Post and Polk Streets. Testerman helped Talbott Acosta acquire birth control, then began prostituting her when she turned 17, she claims. At 18, she also began working as a hairdresser for Testerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their belief was that you’re born fully responsible [to have sex],” Talbott Acosta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this time, Talbott Acosta grew estranged from her family, something common among Welcomed Consensus members she has encountered over the years. The distance strengthened the pull Testerman had over her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my world. I worked for him and he was my lover and my dad and my family, really, my family,” Talbott Acosta said. “RJ referred to that time as the Wild West. We didn’t have any structure, it was just a sex commune with lots of drinking and drugs and violence and drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair looks out of a window in a residential setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67128_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Talbott Acosta stands in her home in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talbott Acosta then moved into a house near Oak and Fell streets that was affiliated with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913686/this-bay-area-sex-loving-commune-is-still-going-strong\">East Bay sex commune\u003c/a> called Lafayette Morehouse, which taught and sold sex classes through its so-called More University that began in 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone at her new house was taking classes from More University, with topics ranging from “Advanced Sensuality” to “Expansion of Sexual Potential.” Elite members of Morehouse lived at the commune’s larger property in Lafayette.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At around age 20, Talbott Acosta began living with Testerman at a house on Joost Avenue in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood with about seven others while working for him at the hair salon. It was there in the early ’90s that Testerman formed the Welcomed Consensus, using the teachings and financial models he learned with More University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was word for word,” Talbott Acosta said of how the Welcomed Consensus model is based on More University. She added, however, that she never experienced the rigid rules over sex, food, clothing or pressure to leave family with More University as she did with Welcomed Consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Daedone would also become affiliated with both Morehouse and the Welcomed Consensus before launching her own version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Welcomed Consensus’ inner circle had to pass what was referred to as “validation,” which required performing a three-hour long orgasm in private with Welcomed Consensus members as well as a one-hour orgasm demonstration as part of a public course offering, Talbott Acosta said. Women in the house would take turns performing DOing at workshops, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the inner circle typically lived at the Glen Park house. The group later bought a ranch in far Northern California near the community of Klamath River in rural Siskiyou County, called A Madrone Ranch and Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former members described typical Welcomed Consensus lessons as a scene where a group of men and women would gather in a room, and men would practice stroking the clitoris of an assigned female partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would get the guys to come in and then all the women in the house would be who they practice on,” Talbott Acosta recalled.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For years, Talbott Acosta floated in and out of the Welcomed Consensus community, recruiting new members and participating in classes even as she moved out with a spouse and focused on having her own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers one particular meeting with Testerman that influenced her split from the group, but it still took years to leave behind that life, even after moving out of the Glen Park house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RJ just hit me so hard… that I couldn’t imagine doing it again,” Talbott Acosta said of one particular DOing session where he repeatedly slapped her genitals. “The idea of taking my clothes off all of a sudden in public just had me really scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a “touch and look” course, where Welcomed Consensus students who reached a certain level in the courses could stroke and touch women who lived at the house, like Talbott Acosta, on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the big hook,” Talbott Acosta said. “These guys who had been coming and ogling at you could do this. If you lived in the house, you were a shill they used as bait to bring guys in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11956446 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A house in a residential neighborhoods with a verdant front garden.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67218_230724-WelcomeConensusHouse-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">827 Joost Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood, the house owned by the Welcomed Consensus where members of the group’s inner circle typically lived. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She tried to take on other roles at the house, like cooking, but even then she was required to wear a French maid’s outfit. Any time she objected, she said, “I was told this is my resistance to pleasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after leaving the group, Talbott Acosta reported the abuses she faced there to local police in Redwood City and San Francisco. Her reports fell beyond California’s statute of limitations, so she says police told her she would need evidence of Testerman admitting to the abuse, which she did not have. The cases went nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later tried reaching out to five different law firms to see if she had a civil case she could try, but hit wall after wall with the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Welcomed Consensus and OneTaste\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sasha Nelson grew up in Berlin and traveled all over the world before landing a corporate job in Sonoma County. She didn’t like her static lifestyle, and heard about OneTaste from friends taking workshops. She wanted the freedom and sexual empowerment it advertised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She attended an OMing workshop with OneTaste and said their sorority-rush-like efforts to recruit her were “intoxicating” at first. She described the group as “a typical cult vibe, everyone was euphoric and excited and giddy and making friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she arrived at her first gathering, “you do this horrifying exercise and all these women are taking off their pants in a warehouse of 200 people, getting stroked in front of everybody,” Nelson said. “My first experience was with a man I had an aversion to the entire weekend, but after I felt really close to him and felt like ‘wow, there’s something really to this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went on, she became less charmed by the large group events and felt disconnected from the strangers she was having sexual encounters with at the workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the fall of 2017, she matched with a man named Bill Berndt on Tinder. Text messages shared with KQED show he told her that he was in a sensuality community, and she was curious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had liked the concept that was taught in Nicole [Daedone’s] workshop, but I didn’t like the scene,” Nelson said of the OneTaste event. “I thought, ‘Oh, here’s maybe another way to explore that. Like a little smaller group.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Welcomed Consensus pushed much harder to recruit Nelson, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard for me to believe these women would mislead me,” she told KQED. “It was a higher level of recruiting and grooming” than she experienced at the OneTaste workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began traveling to San Francisco for weekly “BenchMarks,” essentially cocktail-party-like recruitment gatherings led by Testerman and women who lived at Welcomed Consensus’ house on Joost in Glen Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BenchMarks were the first step in recruitment. Before each meeting, members would discuss who would be in attendance that night, remind each other to be happy and bubbly and not share any negatives about the group, and ultimately, bring in new members with money to spend, multiple former affiliates told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A primary viewpoint of the group is that fun, turned-on women always enthusiastically say ‘Yes’ to offers,” Nelson told KQED. “By saying, ‘No, thank you,’ you are seen as out of agreement, resistant, or just plain unfun… Nobody wants to be deemed unattractive or unfun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair looks out of a window in a residential setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67132_230710-OneTasteChristineSasha-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Nelson sits in the home of Christine Talbott Acosta in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nelson was persuaded to move into the Welcomed Consensus’ San Francisco house in 2018, but left after four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often physically exhausted while living there — something other former members said was common in the early days of living among the Welcomed Consensus. Like sex, food was strictly controlled in the house, and women’s bodies were heavily scrutinized around weight, Nelson remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RJ likes skinny girls, that was one of the unspoken rules,” Nelson said. “You would really be pressured to eat the food being made, yet you were also not allowed to be fat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former student named Allyson told KQED she witnessed Testerman, wearing cowboy boots, repeatedly kick a household member who was on the floor. KQED is only using Allyson’s first name due to personal safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Nelson was being groomed by the Welcomed Consensus, OneTaste was booming. It was still edgy, but good marketing helped it inch its way toward mainstream acceptance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15commune.html\">profiles in publications like \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — and it made lots of money along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Daedone herself was a student with the Welcomed Consensus in the late 1990s and early 2000s, multiple sources told KQED, including a former housemate of hers and a colleague at OneTaste. Talbott Acosta described her mission with OneTaste as attempting to make the courses scalable, startup-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nicole took the Welcomed Consensus information and put her own twist on it. She used a lot of the same stuff, the basic business plan, but did change some of it,” Talbott Acosta said. “Her goal was to bring it to the masses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘So much social punishment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After graduating with a degree in ecology during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nat Jennings, then 23, was eager to get out into a world beyond screens to put it to use. In September 2022, she headed to California from Texas to volunteer with A Madrone Ranch and Gardens, which she found through a website that connects volunteers with organic farms to work in exchange for boarding, called Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings signed up to work at the farm — a remote property in rural Siskiyou County owned by the Welcomed Consensus — not knowing anything about the group. These days, she describes the experience as, “accidentally signing up to go live in a sex cult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses inside a room with clothes and chairs and a tall fan.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Jennings stands in her bedroom at A Madrone Ranch and Gardens in Sept. 2022, a property in Klamath River, Siskiyou County, owned by the Welcomed Consensus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nat Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to realize what is happening, and to leave,” Jennings told KQED. “If I didn’t have friends on the outside, if I didn’t have a car there, I could have been trapped and I could have, like, not believed myself because I was struggling with sleep deprivation, overworking, like all these factors that were just kind of convincing me I was the crazy one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few red flags stood out to her during her stay. First was early into her stay when women at the house began insisting that she wear a dress to dinner. When she replied she had come to work and didn’t bring a dress, they gave her one to put on. Jennings said she complied out of pressure, but said the dress felt “horribly inappropriate” and the experience made her feel “very uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another day, she went berry picking with one of the house mates, an older man, and he flashed his gun before asking her to go swimming with him and taking off his shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of love bombing and then taking it away, that type of thing,” Jennings said. Love bombing refers to lavishing someone with affection, and usually revoking that kindness later to manipulate them. “There was so much social punishment if you do anything out of line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses holds a plastic container full of blackberries in a wooded area.\" width=\"1501\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED.jpg 1501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230731-Nat-Jennings-01-KQED-1153x1536.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1501px) 100vw, 1501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Jennings holds a container of blackberries she picked near A Madrone Ranch and Gardens in Sept. 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nat Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something felt off. So she and another volunteer in the work-away program dug around online and came across Talbott Acosta’s blog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.truthaboutrj.com/\">TruthAboutRJ.com\u003c/a>, where they saw the faces of several people they were staying with and read stories that started similar to their own — but ended badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We read all that and had this mutual panic attack like, ‘We have to leave tomorrow. This is ridiculous,’” Jennings said. “So on day 12, we woke up at 4:45 a.m., packed our bags and ran out to our cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear exactly how many members are still active with the Welcomed Consensus community. Jennings said at least five people were living at the house while she was there and Talbott Acosta believes two new members were validated in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talbot Acosta said she reported the group and its ranch to WWOOF, but no action was taken. As of publication, \u003ca href=\"https://wwoofusa.org/en/host/20952-homestead-garden-vegetables-community-ranchlivestock\">the ranch listing was still active on the volunteer farming program’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WWOOF did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As young women like Jennings have come forward more recently, Talbott Acosta and Nelson fear a new generation of Welcomed Consensus leaders are being elevated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testerman’s daughter, Ginger Mueller-Testerman, completed a master’s thesis in 2021 titled “\u003ca href=\"https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/x633f6180\">Clitoral Analysis: Analysis of Pleasure in Contemporary Sex Instruction Materials\u003c/a>” at San Francisco State in Human Sexuality Studies, where she also taught a course. In Spring 2023, Mueller-Testerman taught a critical studies course including topics on gender and sexual identity at the California College of the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon hearing the news about Daedone and discovering Mueller-Testerman was teaching a course related to sex, Talbott Acosta contacted SF State and CCA to report personal experiences of abuse and recruiting for the Welcomed Consensus alongside Mueller-Testerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State and CCA also declined to comment on Talbott Acosta’s reports, but both schools confirmed she taught courses there last spring and said she was not signed up to teach this fall. Mueller-Testerman declined to comment when reached by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California, cults and the Welcomed Consensus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took decades before Talbott Acosta and her husband Dennis, who she met at the Welcomed Consensus, to fully cut ties with the group. She said it wasn’t until beginning intensive therapy, and having a total emotional breakdown, that she began to see more clearly the abuse that she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was learning about trauma and learning about PTSD and getting the mental health care that I needed to start seeing what was really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley professor who teaches a course called Cults in Popular Culture, said that type of groupthink and pressure that keeps many members inside groups like the Welcomed Consensus is not uncommon in cults or other intentional communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing you have to ask is ‘Why do people join?’ without diagnosing some kind of brainwashing, mis-recognition or stupidity,” Saha told KQED. “If we begin by believing that followers are already in the wrong, we can’t understand what gets someone somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups draw followers by offering big-ticket items. Bliss. Salvation. Wild financial success. But also things that are big-ticket items that we make mundane like true belonging,” she said. “You also have a structure of authority, and huge financial outlays. People have bought in on every level of their social being. And there’s a leader whose power you actually somewhere really begin to adhere to.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An effort to more strongly enforce an ongoing ban on homeless encampment sweeps in San Francisco won’t be happening just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a district court judge said the city was not violating some of its policies when it came to a ban on clearing homeless encampments — but she requested more information on other policies before she could rule on the entire motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing on Thursday was held over a \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ps-Motion-to-Enforce-PI-Order-and-Declarations.pdf\">motion (PDF)\u003c/a> meant to more strongly enforce a \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022.12.23-65-ORDER-on-Preliminary-Injunction.pdf\">temporary injunction (PDF)\u003c/a>, which stops the city from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">indiscriminately sweeping the streets of people who are unhoused\u003c/a>. This is just part of an ongoing legal battle, which had a separate hearing earlier in the week over whether the injunction should be lifted or not.[aside postID=news_11950967,news_11958939,news_11926891 label='More on Homeless Encampment Sweeps']The Coalition on Homelessness, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926891/unhoused-san-francisco-residents-sue-city-over-displacement-rights-violations\">sued San Francisco in September 2022\u003c/a>, brought forward this motion. They’re arguing that the city has been violating the temporary ban on clearing homeless encampments, which was originally ordered by the same U.S. Magistrate Judge, Donna Ryu, in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ryu ruled that the city was not violating a clause in the injunction that stops the city from “threatening to enforce” certain laws that prevent someone from sitting, lying or camping on sidewalks or other public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge delayed ruling on claims that the city has been violating its own so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/bag-and-tag-process#:~:text=Public%20Works%20%E2%80%9Cbag%20and%20tag,will%20record%20thedate%20of%20disposal.\">“bag and tag” policies\u003c/a> during routine street cleanups and permissible encampment resolutions. The judge will review those claims after receiving additional information from the defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When city agencies, like the Department of Public Works, clear a homeless encampment or an individual’s sleeping site but no one is present, they are required to bag and tag personal belongings so the individual can later retrieve them. Whether they are doing so or not is what’s under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s likely there are DPW workers who bag and tag, but it also appears some are not. Some of the instances I called out are pretty clear and pretty blatant,” Ryu said in Thursday’s hearing. “I have a concern that at least the training should be more robust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ordered attorneys representing the city to submit more information by Sept. 22 on how it responds to calls regarding homeless encampments — including how many officers interact with unhoused people and if the city would consider adding more training for those officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also requested more information on what type of training DPW workers received about the original injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryu said that plaintiffs could retry their motion around threats of enforcement, but that they would need stronger arguments and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that clearer communication, uniform communication, would be helpful across the board to the people of San Francisco,” Ryu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s hearing followed another major hearing in the lawsuit that took place on Wednesday, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">a three-judge panel heard arguments\u003c/a> over whether to consider appealing the same temporary injunction \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950967/advocates-for-unhoused-san-franciscans-say-encampment-sweeps-continue-despite-court-order-call-on-judge-to-rein-city-in\">that prevents the city from moving unhoused people under certain circumstances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/judge-partially-denies-motion-to-more-strictly-enforce-ban-on-homeless-encampment-sweeps/rs68257_20230822-homelesslawsuit-15-jy-qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959129\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people hold up signs in front of a court building, one man yells into a megaphone\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey speaks at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Dorsey voiced his opposition of the injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that hearing, plaintiffs and judges clarified that a person who denies genuine offers of shelter during an encampment clearing would no longer be considered “involuntarily homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction between who is or isn’t involuntarily homeless is important because the injunction only bans sweeps of those who are involuntarily homeless, meaning that if someone refuses shelter, the city can proceed to enforce its laws against sitting, lying or camping in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s appeal to remove the injunction is still processing, and it will likely be several months before a decision is made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several city leaders showed up to support the city attorney’s effort to appeal the injunction on Wednesday, including Mayor Breed and three moderate supervisors, saying the ban has stymied the city’s ability to clear streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members and homeless advocates also rallied in front of the courthouse Wednesday, saying that the injunction is necessary to stop unlawful sweeps and bring about more effective solutions to the homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thursday’s hearing, Gov. 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The government-subsidized health care plan supports 95% of patients at the hospital, but that funding was only temporarily granted while the hospital worked toward recertification with federal regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Roland Pickens, interim CEO, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center\"]‘This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened.’[/pullquote] The move marks a turning point in the almost two-year regulatory crisis that threatened to shutter Laguna Honda, the state’s largest public nursing facility and home to nearly 500 medically fragile residents with needs ranging from stroke rehabilitation to dementia and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really the culmination of all of the improvement work we have been doing over the last 18 months since the decertification happened,” the hospital’s interim CEO Roland Pickens told KQED. “The most recent monitoring surveys went fairly well and gave us the confidence that we have made significant enough improvements and that we would be successful in attaining a recertification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Laguna Honda was found out of compliance on several safety issues across multiple regulatory surveys that federal regulators administered after the hospital self-reported two nonfatal overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the findings, federal regulators stripped Laguna Honda from Medicare and Medi-Cal, subsidized health care plans that cover the vast majority of residents at the facility, most of whom have extremely low or fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required the hospital to craft and implement a plan to prepare for closure, and in return, the agency would temporarily sustain funding to the hospital. That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. Community members and government officials, including Mayor London Breed, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and others, publicly decried the regulators’ decision and advocated for a different response. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> following the relocation deaths, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">the transfer process was paused\u003c/a> as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Laguna Honda has taken steps to address deficiencies in areas such as medication storage and hygiene control. Regulators marked just 33 areas for improvement in a June 2023 monitoring survey to check progress, compared to the first survey that had 124 findings, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services will review the application next to determine what is to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Time is of the essence. The hospital is currently facing a deadline of Sept. 19 before the current temporary pause on involuntary transfers could resume. If relocations do resume, residents will have the right to appeal their transfer and must first be assessed for appropriate options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear exactly how long the process could take or whether the federal and state regulators could again delay the deadline. Pickens, however, said he hopes the regulatory process will be completed in time to prevent any additional involuntary transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to emphasize that applying for recertification is not the end of our work to improve our facility, but rather the beginning of a new era of excellence for Laguna Honda Hospital,” Pickens said in a letter to residents sent on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home reform advocates and members of the Laguna Honda community welcomed the news of the reapplication. 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The issue is even more pronounced for low-income elderly residents who rely on Medicare and Medi-Cal, typically those who can’t afford private nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said that residents who were transferred to other facilities during the 2022 relocation process will receive priority to come back once the hospital can resume admitting new patients again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New admissions have been on hold since the hospital was decertified. 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