::Such practices were not exclusive to Mannerbunde, but can be glipmsed in historic accounts of male hunter or warrior fraternities across Old Europe, and these seem to have more in common with initiatory Mysteries in the classical sense than the fraternal lodges or exclusive clubs like Skull and Bones or the Bohemian Grove today - none of which, to the best of my understanding, employ homoerotic ritual sex as a method of imbuing its initiates with virtue.