“The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’

Restrictive eating and forced weight loss were tools of control in the NXIVM’s sex cult ‘DOS’. I can’t say I’m surprised.

Cover art to The Vow, a documentary series from HBO.

Please note that this article mentions cult activities, slavery terminology, extreme dieting, abuse, calorie counting, bingeing, self harm, and coercive…