This quote is a little adjacent to your point, but since you mentioned " initiation of young men", the very next section contrasts what I assume is a Christian church service. St Augustine praises "the separation of the sexes". I normally read stuff like that and think about how much more advanced we are nowadays and scoff.

However, since the rest of his stuff is so logical, I'm trying to think why does a smart man 1700 years ago see a need to separate sexes in a public place.

In the back in of my mind the AI videos of giants building the pyramida are playing, and I'm thinking was it there dress code, maybe they use the same restrooms. Were they just so much healthier that their hormones and sex drive were better? 


 Or is sex like a battery and he's keeping the terminals separate. And that's how they built all those aqueducts https://image.nostr.build/8f061ef60c92600673610edab250c013779522d99408a020278b3f3cda9f1aba.jpg