Magic mushroom…phallic fungus gives women an orgasm with just a sniff

Forget chocolate and oysters, early studies suggest an exotic mushroom found in Hawaii can do an even better job. A very small study was done in 2001 where John Holliday of Next Laboratories in Kula, Hawaii and Noah Soule of Aloha Medicinals tested the mushroom’s aphrodisiac effect.

The study involved just 16 women and 20 men, but the results were impressive. All the volunteers were asked to sniff the mushroom. Six women in the study experienced a spontaneous orgasm while the rest experienced an increase in heart rate.

The authors of the study said: “There are significant sexual arousal characteristics present in the fetid odour of this unique mushroom.”

“These results suggest that the hormone like compounds present in the volatile portion of the spore mass may have some similarity to human neurotransmitters during sexual encounters.”

The mushroom is bright orange in colour, but another fungus in the Dictyophora genus and ‘Stinkhorn’ family (which this magic mushroom belongs to) is also rumoured to have aphrodisiac properties.