Abstract
This paper discusses changes in word use in male prostitution in New Zealand between 1900 and 1981. In doing so it considers legislative amendments relating to both homosexual engagements and vagrancy laws. It also discusses developments in language in relation to changes in social spaces, including waterfronts, cafés, streets, prisons and public toilets. In tracing these changes the paper documents a richly textured and protean argot that prior to the permeation of the language of legitimised work in the 1980s, constituted a highly complex and richly metaphored system of communication.
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