By Barry Meier
Oct. 17, 2017
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html