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Bachelor party
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A bachelor party (United States, South Africa), also known as a stag party or stag night (UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand), bull's party (South Africa) or buck's party, or buck's night (Australia) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new wife might not approve of, or merely to spend time bonding with his male friends (often in his wedding party afterwards).
The history of bachelor party is thought to have originated with a bachelor dinner that was traditional in ancient Sparta (5th century BC) where soldiers would toast each other on the eve of a friend’s wedding.[citation needed]
A bachelor party may involve activities beyond the usual party and social gathering ingredients (often drinking alcohol and gambling), such as going to a strip club, hiring a female stripper or escort, and in some traditions more hazing-like tests and pranks at the future groom's expense, which shows the whole thing is also a rite of passage from bachelorhood (associated with an adolescent lifestyle, often in the common past of most participants, e.g. in their student years) to (more 'responsible') marital life.
The task of organizing a bachelor party is often traditionally assigned to a male sibling of the bachelor or to the best man; otherwise any (close and/or reputedly party-minded) male friend will organize it. The planned activities of a bachelor party are traditionally kept secret from the groom.
Bachelor parties have also been the subject of many movies, especially comedies.
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It has also become common for a similar party to be held for the bride-to-be. This is known as a bachelorette party or Hen party.
A tame version is the so-called Stag and Doe party, in which both the bride and groom attend.
In the United Kingdom it is now common for the party to last for more than one evening, hence the increasing prevalence of the phrase "stag weekend." A spin off has been the growth of the Stag Weekend Industry in the UK with various companies taking the "hassle" out of the weekend.
In the UK, stag weekend trips are becoming mini-holidays with the groups taking part in various day time activities as well as the expected night out on the town and the inevitable strippers. Popular UK destinations include Blackpool, Brighton, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Liverpool and Edinburgh. With the rise of budget airlines, there is now a growing trend for stags to go abroad [1], with Krakow, Dublin and Riga topping the list, followed by Prague, Vilnius, Amsterdam and Maastricht.
In the United States, Las Vegas[2] and South Beach (Miami) are popular bachelor party destinations, because they are also popular wedding locations. Increasingly, "destination bachelor parties" are replacing standard nights out, with Americans traveling to Montreal or Mexico.[3]
The groom's mates may, after all getting drunk, subject him to various humiliations and/or endurances, sometimes even in public, such as leaving him tied naked to a pole, or placing him drunk on an airplane to a far off remote location.
Canadian cities such as Montreal or Vancouver are popular bachelor party destinations due to their large number of strip clubs with "danse contact" (lap-dancing). The female equivalent of a stag party in Canada is often known as a "stagette" or "doe."
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- ^ Boyer, David. Bachelor Party Confidential: A Real-Life Peek Behind the Closed-Door Tradition New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007. ISBN 1416928081
- ^ Boyer, David. Bachelor Party Confidential: A Real-Life Peek Behind the Closed-Door Tradition New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007. ISBN 1416928081
- ^ Austin, Michael. "Bachelor parties skip town." Crain's Chicago Business 7 May 2007. pp. 53-58. MasterFILE Premier EBSCOHost. Retrieved 23 May 2007.