If it were true, there would have been a huge drive to isolate the cause. We’re currently working on a drug that does basically this, marketed as a female Viagra, despite working very differently.
I suppose that could be useful for women who have trouble having an orgasm… or for guys who don’t want to deal with a little thing called “foreplay”.
The mushroom groups on facebook have been inundated with posts about this and most of the mycologists are quite skeptical that it’s real (even with it being in a published book).
If these mushrooms cause a “high,” then probably *some * (small set of) women could achieve orgasm by smelling them. I’ve seen documentaries on addiction where addicts talked about the first time they tried heroin, or whatever, and they had orgasms.
I remember that because I thought, “my first beer was not *that *good.”
Aside from whether it’s real or not, I say why not? I mean there are poison mushrooms or hallucination mushrooms. Mushrooms specifically for some orgasm hormone or whatever seems possible aside from being probable.
If there was some mushroom whose smell induce orgasms in women, wouldn’t this has been known on Hawaii forever? How could they not have noticed this for centuries?
Maybe some Hawaii shamans or whatever knew about it. Or maybe it is deep in the jungle or something. Why not wait for more information? I was just saying that it is logically possible.