Dead heroes did not go to Hel but were resurrected in Valhalla - a sort of Paradise. The creation of a Paradise motivated warriors and their families to support war efforts. Over time, by comparison, Hel became a place of punishment. In the fourteen and fifteenth centuries depictions of the torments of Hell became more pornographic. Naked men and women were shown tortured and tormented in sado-masochistic displays.
Paintings show men and women bound and staked with animals devouring their breasts and genitals.
While many of these depictions were purely fanciful, others mirrored the real psychosexual tortures of the Inquisition. Two overtly sexual themes recur in the representations of Hell, the mouth of Hell, and Satan with a ravenous face in his lower groin. As with the veneration of Christ's side wound, Satan also has a vaginal entrance within his body - one that consumes, one with teeth. Likewise the mouth of Hell has teeth and represents the consummate evil of the female sex. For those of you who would like a preview of Hell, please use one of the following links, which replicate the eternal, torturous sounds of Hell better than anything I could possibly imagine.