{"id":149656,"date":"2020-12-23T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=149656"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:51:23","slug":"the-corporate-feminism-of-nxivm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/23\/the-corporate-feminism-of-nxivm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corporate Feminism of NXIVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2020. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-vow-nvixm-cult.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-vow-nvixm-cult.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-vow-nvixm-cult.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-vow-nvixm-cult-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-vow-nvixm-cult-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like everyone on Twitter, I have been transfixed by the HBO documentary series <em>The Vow<\/em>, about the self-improvement cult\/pyramid scheme\/sex trafficking ring known collectively as NXIVM. The organization\u2019s leader, Keith Raniere, was found guilty on seven counts of racketeering and sex trafficking in 2019, and this week, on October 27, he was sentenced to a hundred and twenty years in prison. The most sensational headlines of the case are about the former teen actress Allison Mack\u2019s involvement in a secret sadomasochistic group within NXIVM known as DOS (\u201cdominus obsequious sororum,\u201d a phrase in a language that could at best be described as Latin-esque that supposedly meant \u201clord over the obedient female companions\u201d) in which she and other \u201cmasters\u201d recruited other women as \u201cslaves,\u201d some of whom were made to have sex with Raniere. Grotesque details abound in this story, particularly of slaves being branded with a soldering iron near their crotches with a symbol containing both Mack\u2019s and Raniere\u2019s initials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/the-corporate-feminism-of-nxivm\/\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Bolin on what \u2018The Vow,\u2019 Amy Coney Barrett, and the #MeToo movement all have in common. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2020"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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