By Barry Meier
ALBANY
— Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret
sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
To
gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or
“master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising
material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly
released if the group’s existence were disclosed.
The
women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization
called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the
country, Canada and Mexico.
Sarah
Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would
get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared
for what came next.
Each
woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three
others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them,
their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed
them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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