Armor was a status symbol and includes sexualized designs to demonstrate the girth of your
penisprowess.
As I understand it, it was also a sort of advertisement. It was basically saying “It took a lot of money to make this fancy armor, so I’m worth more alive and ransom-able rather then dead on this battlefield”
That’s hilarious.
Also god damn I’m old, 9/11 happened when I was in college.