COLOSSI OF LOVE

The Colossi of Love is the story of the Greek characters known as “kamaki” – men who were obsessed with courting female foreign tourists using special techniques during the 70s and 80s. Even though “kamaki”, this Greek way of flirting which literally means “harpoon”, was just about sex, in a society where sex with local women was culturally forbidden, it resulted in almost 1,000 mixed marriages on the island of Rhodes, while it also revealed other issues: competitiveness among males, a desire to be different to everyone else, and a feeling of superiority brought on by seducing foreign women. Issues indicative of a country at a turning point, in terms of both cultural and sexual taboos.