>>5704859>>5704861>>5710141>>5710144>>5710182The theme of psychosexual control and denial as a motivational and morale regulation mechanism in warfare is apparently an ancient one. Here is another academic summary I read concerning the Aztecs and Incas, both of whom apparently used entheogenic substances to manage warfare:
https://daily.jstor.org/aphrodisiacs-of-the-aztec-and-inca/>Incas viewed several medicinal plants as having two forms. The male form excited sexual desire while the female form reversed this effect. In fact, along with aphrodisiacs, both Aztecs and Inca had anaphrodisiacs, which could allegedly extinguish sexual desire. Among other uses, Inca rulers fed one such tuber to soldiers to encourage them to forget their wives while off at war.However, Elferink writes, the most potent aphrodisiacs for the Aztecs seem to have come from animals. A part of the mazacoatl, or deersnake, was considered extremely potent, to the point of danger. >The Florentine Codex, written by Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún in the sixteenth century, warned that a man who drank too much of a tincture made from mazacoatl “continually erects his virile member and constantly ejects his semen, and dies of lasciviousness.”
