Köçek with a tambourine Dancing Köçek with a tambourine. Photograph, late 19th c. Private collection. Early nineteenth century travelers to Turkey, John Cam Hobhouse and Lord Byron, were shocked by the rampant boy prostitution. On May 17th, 1810, Hobhouse reports that "Hearing music, [I] went into a room like a hall with a gallery all round it. This was a wine-house and here I saw a boy dancing in a style indescribably beastly, scarcely moving from one place, but making a thousand lascivious motions with his thighs, loins, and belly." Two days later he brought Byron to see it. (The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse) click image to enlarge