That’s not an orgasm. Real fake orgasms look like this:
For the record, it can happen that a specific allergy starts a chain reaction so that over time the affected person develops further allergies to other organisms on other branches of the same root. I’ve got one friend in particular who started with a latex allergy and now can’t handle stone fruit (unless it’s cooked) and a bunch of other tangentially related items.
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You have a thing for randomly bolded words, you should have your keyboard checked.
Also, holy pedantic rant, you are very hung up on my use of the word fungi instead of mushroom for wholly comedic effect (on a tongue in cheek comment thread that involved a masked avenger I might add) would you like me to go back and edit that post, would that be better?
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I’d seriously consider permanently corking my nostrils to be that guy. Don’t care at all what the gents think of my smell.
I’m of the school that they are actually…
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Fungi to be with.
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how did we get 86 comments in without anyone making this joke?
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foreplay
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Inorite. We had all these possiblities before we stampeded the punchline. 
Well, @redesigned came the closest when naming the superhero.
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Sorry to disappoint everyone. But this article should be taken with a grain of salt.
I’ve personally met the researchers when I lived in Hawaii. They didn’t have bad intentions. But, their scientific methods were in my opinion not thorough and they’ve been warned by the FDA for selling mushroom products with unsubstantiated claims. Such as one product made from a fungus that grew on the head of a caterpillar in Nepal that they claimed cured dog cancer.
Furthermore, I’d say that given how hard it is for residents in Hawaii to make a decent living. If this mushroom really had the stated effect. People would have wasted no time trying to cultivate and sell it.
It makes me a bit sad when things like this spread around the internet. It’s good for nothing but pageviews.
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That makes it perfect for BB.
#BURN
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More likely to be a quack “nutritionist” peddling garbage.
Seeing as some people sell their jock straps for money on the internets, I don’t think everyone finds the odor foul!
God I fucking hate these people.
This doesn’t go with “They didn’t have bad intentions”. It reminds me of the local hippie pet shop that sells homeopathic dewormer. They’re all so kind but selling you a $20 dropper of water that will do literally nothing as worms burrow into your best friend’s heart, brain, whatever.
It’s not the definition of actively malicious, but they are ultimately harmful and hurt others.
“Research” is also a term that covers anecdotes and wholly fraudulent efforts / guesses alongside actual doctors performing actual science.
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From what has surfaced, it seems like the study is highly questionable, that’s for sure.
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After having read the Snopes entry as well as comments it appears that one of the problems is that no one has bothered to do a follow up study to confirm (or refute) the original study. Seems like it would be cheap and easy for some University of Hawaii researcher to do this and even publish the results if they are negative and get good press for “See this, this is how the scientific method and community works.”
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Presuming they could find the actual mushrooms in question.
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That might also be worthy of publishing as a brief communication in the relevant journal.
“We intended to follow up this article that has become a bit of an internet sensation but we cannot even find the damn mushroom” (well ok not worded like that)
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