Do you think socieities have always used male thirst for poon to get them to give themselves up for sacrifice?

[MatureDJ]

I was reading this, and it got me interested:

The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America

Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

www.theatlantic.com

The historian Bremmer writes that in the ritual sacrifices carried out by India’s Kond people into the 1800s, “the victims were always treated with great kindness before being sacrificed” to “the founding goddess of the village”.

And there is the case of Japanese kamikazes being sent off in the midst of adoring 14 year-old girls:

Japanese girls who waved suicide pilots off tell of emotional trauma

The girls, known as Nadeshinko after the cherry blossom branches they used to wave the men off, said the pilots always smiled as they took off, but suffered a secret emotional trauma.

www.dailymail.co.uk

... these girls, some as young as 14, were tasked with working at Chiran airbase, used by the desperate Japanese military to launch Kamikaze plane attacks ...

They welcomed the young men to the base, talked with them to ease their fears before they took off on their mission, kept them fed and watered ... The girls were forced to put on smiling faces, as the men they had got to know over the previous weeks and days flew off to certain death.

And of course, the meme of "72 76 virgins" is fresh in everyone's mind:

The Houris: Islam’s ‘Sexual Superwomen’

Article by Raymond Ibrahim - Nov 24, 2016

www.raymondibrahim.com

Last month, when the battle for Mosul began, Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly promised four extra Houris (supernatural, celestial women designed for sexual purposes)—atop the other 72 promised by prophet Muhammad—to all jihadis who die (are “martyred”) fighting the infidel forces, according to Arabic media accounts.

my opinion: I detect a pattern here.

 

[Zimbabwe]

Yeah it's well documented that the reason vikings went on risky trips abduct women was because of the lack of success back home

 

[Jack22]

Almost everyone chases the dragon.
The Ouroboros is seen in countless cultures, representing a range of things, but most often infinity. Death and life, the continuation of the new built on the foundation laid by the dead.
I think that's why people who are willing to die for their beliefs are seen with a higher respect than others. Jesus, Socrates, etc. To forgo the opportunity to reproduce, and face death for the continuation of an idea. In a way, it's a sort of ascension. Having risen above the rest to witness the wider whole, they recognized the value of what they were doing and selflessly sacrificed themselves to breath virtue into a cruel and unjust world.
"Self-satisfaction", if you believe in a higher ideal than a wet hole, than I think that's the only alternative to chasing the dragon.