How many young men looked at this ad and were in awe of this body? This is the first image that ever gave me a hardon. From there, it was my father's male adventure magazines, (often with homoerotic bare-chested men fighting each other), his Playboy and Esquire magazines of the 1960s (always looking for men), and the eager anticipation of the arrival of the newest Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogues, for the mens swimsuit and underwear models.