Chronicles the first modern ethnomycological and historically documented look at certain species of fungi and their past and present use as a source of healing both body and mind as in ancient primitive archaic rituals and also as an aphrodisiac.Modern day use of these fungi originating from seven personal documented exchanges of communication between author John Allen and Sasha Shulgin and Jochen Gartz that describeamp151in detail and photographsamp151the effects of both the ludible use of psilocybian fungi throughout the ages to produce intense sexual euphoric unions. Other families of fungi that produce similar effects but contain different chemicals can result in timeless hours of pure orgasmic pleasure.The aphrodisiac effects of mushrooms were first reported around the time of the conquest of Nueva Espaamp241ntildea. Francisco Flores Diego Duran and Bernardo de Sahagamp250uacuten described mushrooms used by Aztecs priests and their followers to produce amp147provoked lust. In the mid20th Century several noted scholars like R. Gordon Wasson Albert Hofmann Weston LaBarre Maria Sabina Florence Cowan Eunice Pike Tim Leary Richard Alpert and Aldous Huxley reported experiencing erotic euphoric effects and observing erotic sensuality in others while they were under the influence psilocybine. Many claimed they had found the perfect sexual aphrodisiac. In some of these modern anecdotal materials we have been taught that the majority of Mazatec Indian shamans curanderas brujos sabiossabias and their Indian participants of mushroom vigils and Veladas all refrain from sexual activity 4 days before and 4 days after a mushroom ceremony. To do so as many of the medicine men and woman all seem to agree on is that it amp147would bring about a lasting madness.amp8221 Yet some Indians have been reported to regularly participate in sexual activities while on mushrooms as well as on peyote. In the Florentine Codex Sahagamp250n a devout catholic said that the mushrooms aun provoc