A Netflix documentary about a sexual wellness company is facing opposition in court over sexually explicit material that was allegedly “misappropriated” and could show the faces, at least, of people who don’t want to be seen by the streaming platform’s 222 million users.
The heart of the matter has to do with OneTaste, a business that teaches adults Orgasmic Meditation, a form of sexual healing that focuses entirely on the female clitoris for an extended period of time and does not involve touching the male genitalia.
Over a period spanning 2005 through 2018, several “retreats, workshops, and classes” were conducted by OneTaste that were also “video recorded for future internal instructional purposes,” a 15-page lawsuit filed last month by 15 plaintiffs in Los Angeles County notes.
The filing seeks a temporary restraining order that would allow Netflix to release the documentary on the planned release date, Nov. 5, 2022, “but without [the Doe plaintiffs’] images, until [the Does’] rights to control images of their likeness can be adjudicated.”
That video footage, the lawsuit claims, was “unlawfully obtained” by a former employee, Chris Kosley, who was fired in 2016, then sold to filmmaker Sarah Gibson, who put together a “sizzle reel” that was shopped around to multiple production companies, including Netflix. But, the lawsuit claims, that footage was never supposed to be released or shown to anyone outside of OneTaste whatsoever.
“In 2016, OneTaste terminated Kosley’s...
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