5376 - Short story long

I'm not very good at filling up a page with words. 

Question... How did the experiment go? 

Me... It failed. 

Puzzled response... Well, tell us about it. 

Me... I just did.

So here's the clickbait headline that caught my attention. "This Fungus Can Instantly Induce Female Orgasm"

Here's the short article... https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/even-fungus-can-give-woman-orgasm/

It referred to this even shorter article...

https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/download/article/6f3ed2921c9f3802/IJM%200302-3%20%28162%29.pdf

That lead me to this ARTICLE ... https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/expedition-ecstasy-sniffing-out-the-truth-about-hawaiis-orgasm-inducing-mushroom

It starts off with this teaser...

"It was the moment of truth.

I couldn’t believe I’d actually found it. When John Holliday told me where to look to find the infamous Dictyophora species, I didn’t really believe him — probably because he also claimed this mushroom had some pretty implausible properties. But it was there all the same, right where he said it would be. Countless hours of research and reporting had culminated in this moment. There I was, standing on the remains of an old lava flow, staring at a mushroom that one man claimed could make me orgasm by smell alone.

I bent down, pressing my hands in the soft mulch on either side of the fungus, and let the air out of my lungs. Then I pushed my face next to its orange stalk and breathed in as deeply as I could."

And then there was a lot of story. A lot. To get to here...

"To be honest, I was disappointed. After all of the research I had conducted, I knew that there was no reason to believe the Hawaiian orgasm fungus was real. Everything about it had fallen apart upon scrutiny. I knew that the discrepancies within Holliday’s own testimony were troubling, and that biologically, the idea of a smell-induced orgasm was a stretch at best.

But I wanted it to be true. A small piece of me had hoped that I would find the smell pleasing, if not a little bit arousing. I wanted to suspend disbelief. I, too, wanted to live in a world where the orgasm fungus exists.

I still do."

So if you have a half an hour or can read really fast, there's a whole story in between that I skipped and hopped through looking for the answer only to find out they still don't know.