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A popular resort town on Spain’s Costa Brava has banned inflatable penis costumes and sex dolls from stag and hen night celebrations, with fines of up to €1,500 (£1,276).

Platja d’Aro, whose population of 12,500 can host as many as 300,000 visitors on a summer weekend, is a favourite destination for bachelor and bachelorette nights. Numerous websites offer packages that include accommodation, cruises and male or female strippers.

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The new bylaw specifically bans people from appearing “on the public thoroughfare without clothing or only in their underwear or with clothing or accessories representing human genitals or with dolls or other accessories of a sexual nature”.

Offenders face fines of €300-€1,500 (£255-£1,275).

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Barcelona, Málaga and Marbella are among the most popular destinations and, between them, host thousands of stag and hen parties which are catered for by companies that offer entertainment, from paintballing and clubbing to live sex shows. One calls itself, Brothels Barcelona, while a hen party site offers a strip show inside a limousine.

Platja d’Aro joins a number of towns that are struggling to curb the excesses of stag and hen nights. They include the Costa Brava resorts of Tossa de Mar and Lloret de Mar, as well as cities such as Sevilla, Málaga and Granada.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A popular resort town on Spain’s Costa Brava has banned inflatable penis costumes and sex dolls from stag and hen night celebrations, with fines of up to €1,500 (£1,276).

Platja d’Aro, whose population of 12,500 can host as many as 300,000 visitors on a summer weekend, is a favourite destination for bachelor and bachelorette nights.

“These attitudes have an impact on the community’s coexistence and we need to fight against them,” said the mayor, Maurici Jiménez, adding that were it in his power to do so, he would ban the celebrations altogether.

As an example of unacceptable behaviour, David Puertas, the local chief of police, cited a recent incident where the groom was strapped to a lamp-post with gaffer tape while his companions kept neighbours awake playing loud music and singing into the early hours.

The bylaws also prohibit going shirtless or in a bikini in areas away from the beach, a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.

Barcelona, Málaga and Marbella are among the most popular destinations and, between them, host thousands of stag and hen parties which are catered for by companies that offer entertainment, from paintballing and clubbing to live sex shows.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

male or female strippers.

What? Why? On a stag and hen do???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why would you cheat on a stag/hen do?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

A stripper is not automatically a sex worker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It would depend on your definition of cheating. I assume most couples set limits on acceptable behaviour from full disclosure or don't-ask-don't-tell to no naughtiness. On a friend's stag-do a maid-of-honour #cough asked if I'd snog the hen and I obliged - it's between hen and her prospective husband as to where they drew the line that night. I am left with a nagging suspicion that it was a bet or a dare to kiss the oddest looking (hopefully not ugliest) bloke in the place.

In the UK the Jack the Rippers have a no touching policy because, I believe, they are subject to strike licensing laws. Overseas, in my limited experience (Prague) restrictions are minimal or nonexistent, so that would have to be taken into account. "What happens in tour..." is seemingly common, unless, apparently, it's stories about me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They include the Costa Brava resorts of Tossa de Mar

Tossa ye Mar more like! This reeks of anti-British discrimination. If we want to handcuff a naked mate to a lamppost with a traffic cone hanging out of his arse, then that's our business.