From Steven Pressman's "Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from EST to Exile" (p. 41):
By the time [in 1971] Erhard gathered his staff together for [a therapeutic] session with [an acquaintance], the Leadership Dynamics course had become the target of lawsuits brought by participants who had signed up only to find themselves the unwitting victims of cruel physical and emotional abuse during the sessions. In some cases instructors ordered participants into closed coffins. Others were hung onto large wooden crosses for hours at a time. Still others were forced to take off all their clothes while fellow participants taunted them with cruel insults. In one session, a man was forced to perform fellatio on an artificial penis while women attending a separate Leadership Dynamics class were brought in to watch.
I just can't get over how that program has an innocuous title like "Leadership Dynamics", and then participants show up and are forced to fellate an artificial penis - and others are paraded in to watch.
And people put up with this!
Social pressure is amazing.
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