See, I thought you Brits called them "Gollywhoppers" or something like that.

Well, that Apostle of Hustle song "A Rent Boy Goes Down" just took on a whole new meaning.

Matt, in America they're called "jolly ol' HP sauce snoggin' guvnah mates."

I think you might be referring to these, Steve...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog

I'm fairly sure the American term is gigolo, as evidenced by the Rob Schneider classic, Deuce Bigalow.

Er, according to David Lee Roth's classic, Just a Gigolo, the gigolo is a traditionally hetero profession specializing in wizened hags who want "company."

Rent boy has more of a directly "gay for pay" connotation (though I doubt the average rent boy would turn down a straight trick if the money was good...)

speaking of rent boys...www.pcs.org/alex/

For a man selling his services to men?

I thought a gigolo was a man selling his services to women.

The sculpture in the background is Coming of the White Man by H A MacNeil.

See - http://portlandpublicart.wordpress.com/2005/11/27/coming-of-the-white-man/

Portland's sleazy gay culture of the 1970s hasn't been widely written about, but gay teen prostitutes were a constant downtown subculture until HIV AIDS (don't let the 'street youth' agencies let you think they 'cured' them).

Oldtimers will remember the Hamilton and Lownsdale Hotels where the Fed Courthouse is now, and the Esquire Hotel. Boys were lined up two or three deep at 3rd and SW Taylor on summer nights. The Portland Zoo (not the band, not the park - the gay bar) had a back room for underage. Later, Lanny Swerdlow and others started Mildred's Palace, Portland's first underage gay nightclub - about 1977.

Also see Peter Boag in OHS Quarterly.

"Trade."

Ok good.

Now explain cottaging.

Well, see, y' take some cheese curd and make it even more disgusting...

Cottaging: Search "Republican Senator" + "Bathroom Stall" on Google.

Also: MORE ON THE PORTLAND ZOO, please. Pictures, memoirs, the works...

There was 'The City Nightclub' which was a two sided club downtown - one for the 21+ and the other side for under 21. Lots of skanky stuff went down there, for years. I think the city shut 'em down. Always ruining our fun!

Ironically the Salvation Army bought the building, performed some sort of exorcism, and moved it's wayward youth program in there.

There was a trap door behind the cash register...

You're looking for information about "Camp." It was a parking lot or strip somewhere near the Lotus (I think) - where there were loads of yellow-fronted adult bookstores (that sold dirty books) downtown around SW 4th or 3rd back in the late 70s. The City nightclub is a good lead too. Great article idea!

I thought it was called the "Family Zoo". When I was running around downtown in the early 80's "camp" was right around the corner from the Greenhouse, (the old one on 3rd and Yamhill), in front of the ice cream store on Taylor I think.