Yes, the terminology they have stolen, vs made up, has very real meanings in non-nuage cultures. That's what's so offensive. Some people may be looking for authentic spiritual experience and fall for this stuff due to the stolen and twisted terminology, and the complete fabrication of "ancient" traditions that never existed.
yup.
The ironic thing is that these racist, misogynist, cultural appropriators paint themselves as supporters of women's rights and protectors of the rights and traditions of tribal peoples. In reality they are simply abusing and exploiting as many people as they can as if they were livestock rather then human beings.
Some of these groups are making inroads in hippie and Neopagan communities. Recruiters find attractive young women with no money and few inhibitions (and sometimes, severely damaged or nonexistent boundaries) and convince them that they will feel spiritually fulfilled by letting themselves be pimped out. It's a horrific perversion of the actual traditions the pimps steal their terminology from.
yes it is a horrific situation.
Recently the pimps and traffickers have been recruiting feminists to their cause, including some very long established 80s style feminist groups who spend all day campaigning to ban porn and prostitution and to criminalise paying for sex. At least one of these recent converts belongs to a feminist network that in involved in providing services to trafficked women (or at least they did before they lost their funding). The traffickers have managed this simply via their infiltration of "wimmin only" Goddess spirituality groups. - edited to add- sorry this was a bit simplistic - the infiltrations was partly via wimmins Goddess groups, partly via kundalini yoga classes (of the yogi Bhajan related cults ) and partly via Osho groups. The Osho thing needs more coverage and exposure. Back in the late 1980s people who were interested in the subject knew about the corruption, enslavement, prostitution, drug trafficking, bio-terrorism, attempted (and probably actual) murders that were activities of the Rajneeshis. Nowadays it is as if none of that ever happened and all kinds of people think that Osho was some kind of enlightened master. Perhaps the younger generation were not around at the time that all the criminal activities were in the news? Certainly older people have selective memories. Such as shame as so many principled people are being duped.
If some misogynist, racist, extremist right wing megalomaniac decided to subvert and discredit the opposition he couldn't have done it in a more effective way.
