That particular initiation was into a wild bunch of drunken libertines, so, y'know, not for everyone, obviously.
Bacchus?
There’s often a different set of values in different times. Sex and drinking seems to have been as popular then as they were in the 60’s. If that was the culture of the time, I find it interesting, not awful. But as a tee-totaler, myself, that wouldn’t have been a cult that would have appealed. But I’m as happy to see art of nymphs and satyrs as I am to see art of a glorious horse head. (As someone with a photo of Secretariat in her living room.)