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The story you must know “The Sex Cult- NIXUM”

NXIVM, a personal development company founded in the 1990s by Keith Raniere, garnered national attention in 2017 when the New York Timesexposed it as a pyramid scheme and cult that forced its female recruits into sexual slavery.
In the years since, Raniere was arrested and later indicted on federal charges. In July 2019, the founder was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking.
Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to 120 years in prison on Tuesday for turning some adherents into sex slaves branded with his initials.

His teachings were mysterious, filled with self-serving and impenetrable jargon about ethics and values, and defined by a blind-ambition ethos akin to that of the driven characters in an Ayn Rand novel.
His shtick: Make your own self-interest paramount, don’t be motivated by what other people want and avoid “parasites” (his label for people who need help); only by doing this can you be true to yourself and truly “ethical.”
During that time, various people were revealed to be members or recruits — from an heiress to the Seagram Company fortune to a daughter of a former Dynasty actress — but none were more shocking than former Smallville star Allison Mack.
Soon after she was arrested in April 2018, reports alleged that the seemingly wholesome actress was a high-ranking member within the sex cult responsible for recruiting women to be slaves and branding them.

What is NXIVM ?

NXIVM was an American cult that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering.
Based in Clifton Park, New York, a suburb of Albany, NXIVM purported to be a multi-level marketing company that offered personal and professional development seminars through its “Executive Success Programs” of large-group awareness training.
The company was a recruiting platform for a secret society called “DOS” in which women were branded and forced into sexual slavery.
In early 2018, NXIVM’s founder, Keith Raniere, and his associate, actress Allison Mack, were arrested and indicted on federal charges related to DOS, including sex trafficking.
Others associated with NXIVM were also charged with federal crimes. As of April 2019, five people associated with NXIVM—Mack, NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman, and bookkeeper Kathy Russell—had pleaded guilty to various charges.
Raniere was convicted in federal court of sex trafficking and racketeering on June 19, 2019.
On September 30, 2020, Clare Bronfman became the first defendant sentenced in the case, when she was ordered to serve six years and nine months in federal prison.[10]Mack was sentenced to three years in prison on June 30, 2021
After Raniere’s conviction, he continued to direct loyalists from behind bars, encouraging continued recruitment.
At his direction, members of the group have regularly danced outside Raniere’s jail and staged coordinated protests of individual prosecutors.
In September 2020, it was estimated that about 50 to 60 people remained loyal to Raniere. Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison in October 2020

Beliefs and practices

In NXIVM classes, rank was displayed through colored sashes, similar to colored belts in martial arts.
NXIVM drew up a 12-point “Mission Statement” which participants recited during classes, pledging to “purge” themselves “of all parasite and envy-based habits”, to enroll others, and to “ethically control as much of the money, wealth and resources of the world as possible within my success plan”
NXIVM conducted “Intensives” classes for 12 hours daily for 16 days. One cited price was $7,500.
Classes were divided into modules. In one module, “Relationship Sourcing”, students were instructed to explore the benefits they would receive in the event of a partner’s sudden death.
Another module, “Dracula and his ghouls”, reportedly discussed psychopaths and their followers. Other module titles included “Best People; Perfect World” and “The Heroic Struggle”.
During “exploration of meaning” (EM) sessions senior members questioned participants as they delved into their childhood memorie
NXIVM taught that some people, called “Suppressives”, try to impede progress within NXIVM.
People who irrevocably turned against Raniere were said to have undergone “The Fall” and were labeled, in the words of a former member, as “Luciferians, lost people for whom bad feels good, and good feels bad.