I had to get my education from Gustav Dore's illustrations of Dante's Inferno. :-D
(Don't ask how that bent my head).

"When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day.
Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries."
- Anton Chekhov

from the Eatons and Simpsons (Sears) catalogue men's underwear section.

I will admit those scantily dressed square jawed gents seemed uncommonly happy draping their arms around each other's shoulders and the suggestive lumps in their bvds possibly raised more questions than answers.

On the other hand, the lady's dainties sections, with its serviceable girdles and industrial grade brassieres probably did more to promote pre-marriage abstinence for boys than today's sex-ed cautionary tales.