In Search of the Big Bamboo

In Greece, the term kamaki evolved to describe local men, many of them fishermen, who had sexual relations with tourist women in exchange for money and gifts. Since the emergence of package travel tours in the 1970s, European women have been able to travel farther afield. Since the early 1970s, Barbados has become a popular destination for female tourists seeking what the sociologist Graham Dann calls "close encounters of the Third World kind." First contact is usually made on the beach. According to McMillan,Jamaican men are romantic, sensitive, considerateand passionate.