The "Atlantic" piece implies that you wouldn't need to eat a lot of terminally fungus-diseased cicadas to get smashed - on a mixture of psilocybin and cathinone, which is a combo I have never heard of being used recreationally. One effect of khat (whose active ingredient is cathinone) in high doses is spontaneous ejaculation without orgasm, something like a waking wet dream.

Some Australians use cane toad soup as a hallucinogen. Mouldering zombie cicadas aren't much of a step further. We may need to get used to seeing American guys every 17 years walking around with butterfly nets and dilated pupils looking spaced out and dripping with sperm.