MatureDJ
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I was reading this article about how Playboy magazine was a very integral part of the morale-boosting for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and it got me thinking:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/opinion/how-playboy-explains-vietnam.html
It seems to me that fighting in war is simply the rutting of males writ large across fighting entities (e.g., nation-states, or warlord gangs, etc.) so as to impress women - either the ones back home, or the ones of the enemy they wish to defeat - that they are worthy of sexual access. Soldiers in Viet Nam reading Playboy were in essence getting signals that they were fighting for the right to be able to bang those Playboy models. Heck, extraordinarily sexually frustrated Muslim men were seduced into thinking that they were fighting to access women in the afterlife (i.e., the "72 virgins"); similarly, Japanese kamikaze pilots were similarly given strong validation by young, fertile women in their "going away" ceremony to help them make the decision to sacrifice their lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/opinion/how-playboy-explains-vietnam.html
It seems to me that fighting in war is simply the rutting of males writ large across fighting entities (e.g., nation-states, or warlord gangs, etc.) so as to impress women - either the ones back home, or the ones of the enemy they wish to defeat - that they are worthy of sexual access. Soldiers in Viet Nam reading Playboy were in essence getting signals that they were fighting for the right to be able to bang those Playboy models. Heck, extraordinarily sexually frustrated Muslim men were seduced into thinking that they were fighting to access women in the afterlife (i.e., the "72 virgins"); similarly, Japanese kamikaze pilots were similarly given strong validation by young, fertile women in their "going away" ceremony to help them make the decision to sacrifice their lives.