Pirates do a lot of stuff.
You’re damn right there were sexy nurses back then. Not as a costume, but as a life. Healing is sexy, and nurses have kids. So yes we knew what we were doing, and it wasn’t what you’re saying.
In the days of our nation’s founding, men knew to control themselves. They didn’t look at nurses that way.
Men knew to look only at their wives that way. That’s how nurses have kids. With their husbands.
The way people behave today has brought chaos, which is another theme of Halloween.