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I've written here several times about food and sex, aphrodisiacs, etc., but this story takes the prize: Vice Magazine writer Hamilton Morris' pursuit of the legendary psylocibin "penis mushroom" is one of most fascinating and hilarious pieces of food/sex journalism I've ever seen.
Click here for A Nice, Thick, Uncut 12-Inch Shroom: The Penis Mushroom Blows Us Away
Here's Morris' intro:
There is a mythical shroom that is unlike any other shroom. For, you see, this mushroom looks like a penis—not just a little bit like a penis, as many mushrooms do, but exactly like a penis. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? And although mushrooms usually spring forth from the earth as if from the toes of the gods, the penis mushroom is about as natural as a cocker spaniel. In other words, it’s totally man-made and if it were ever placed in the wild it would die instantly.
So what is this magic little cock-looking guy all about? Where did it come from? Who made it? I recently sought to answer these questions and was met with a dizzying world of magic, lies, and unsolved murder. And I was tripping balls the whole time, too.
In addition to consuming a half-ounce of the phallic shroom in question as part of his research (this is Vice Magazine, after all), Morris traces the spore's history and surrounding web of intrigue back to ethnobotanist Terence McKenna, murdered mycologogist Steven Pollock, the mysterious and elusive Rich Gee, and Professor Fanaticus – author of the PF TEK, a popular guide for would-be shroomers – and to a destroyed collection of rare books Morris refers to as a "druggy Library of Alexandria," ultimately ending up with Penis Envy, a strain that sends Morris and his female friend into a hell of a haze, as photographed by Maggie Lee.
Morris' trippy investigation ends so bizarrely that I wouldn't necessarily recommend anybody endeavor to actually try these, but it sure is one hell of a story: The creation and consumption of the penis mushroom appears to have doomed just about everybody involved in one way or another. Make your own jokes here, people. Morris can't resist either:
The penis mushroom was like nothing I had ever put in my mouth. Each time I bit into it, tiny motes of bitter shroom dust flittered through the air. I gagged trying to get it down.
Comments
wow I don't believe it. I have never seen, or for that matter eaten, a penis mushroom. It does in fact look exacly like a dick! We'll that's pretty cool, maybe someday I'll have the chance to eat one all to myself, and when that happens I am going to freak out and loose complete control of my body and yell and scream up and down and up and down a hill. Sounds interesting huh.
The one pictured actually looks WAY more like a penis than even the ones marketed as "Penis Envy." Suspicious... Or maybe these 'shroom dudes just have way too much time on their hands and some big Freudian issues to work out! Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but I'm not so sure about a mushroom some mycologist went to great lengths to make look like male anatomy. Strange, strange story
Interesting - appears to have been grown in a low-light (small cap), high CO2 (large stem) environment.
The age of genetically modified monstrosities is upon us! Even Papa Smurf's going in for the upgrade.
Internet commenters, Lord love 'em. Nice Papa Smurf reference!
this is all false information. john says so him self here:
"The person who wrote that article lied to me in his interviewing me about Rich Gee and the penis envy so I lied back to him with a lot of false information. Additionally he told me this was a school project and then he publishes it in a Vice magazine.
Also, he promised to send me a copy of the article when he finished it and he never did. So I feel justified in the fact that I provided him with a lot of false information about PE.
His too many emails to me and questions about Rich Gee were so irritating that I purposely gave him false and misleading information.
When someone I get emails from someone I do not know asking me too many personal questions about people I have known for 30 years it makes me awful suspicious and so I do not give out any personal information about Mr. Gee or his real identity.
Mr. Gee paid for my last trip to Amsterdam.
rest of his article here:
shroomotopia.net/index.php?showtopic=5429
The author of this paper said he was writing it for his school and made no mention that he was going to publish it elsewhere and I had a shroomy feeling he was lying.
This was also posted at Lycaeum without the photos and yes that is my photo in the article. But much of the data in the article is false as it is information I gave falsely to the author of the article.
I later saw this posted in google and that is how I found out he published it as an article and not as a school project.
His asking too many personal questions about Rich Gee made me very conscious that he may have been more that he represented himself to me as being. And as I said above, his personal questions about Rich Gee were very suspicious to me as were his questions about PF, wanting his home address, etc of both those persons discussed in his article.
John
Just to let you know this article is not a good paper.
I actually had to tell him in several emails to quit asking me personal questions about Rich Gee and PF. HE was very persistant over a period of time in asking personal questions about both PF and Rich Gee. And he misquoted me in a comment about my opinion of Rich Gee.
Would you know of the way these mushrooms effect people in contrast to other mushrooms?
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