NXIVM: The Self-Help Program That Became a “Sex Cult” | Let Lee Explain

NXIVM is a hard thing to explain. Depending on who you ask it’s either a series of executive success programs, a multi-level marketing program, a sex cult, or, as their website puts it, “a community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and answer important questions about what it means to be human…” Lee explains the intricacies of the cult and why its been in national headlines the past few weeks.

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