A Costa Brava town has banned penis suits and sex dolls, and said it will fine stag and hen dos up to 1,500 euros if caught.
Platja d’Aro, a popular resort town on Spain‘s Costa Brava, is considered a favorite for stag and hen dos, thanks to package deals that include flights, hotels and the provision of strippers.
Party-goers have often been seen sporting penis suits and other items of clothing and accesories that reflect human genitalia, but locals are growing sick of their crude antics.
A new regulation has banned people from going out in public ‘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.’
Those who are caught will have to pay fines of up to 1,500 euros, which is equivalent to around 1,250 pounds, La Vanguardia reported.
A beach town in Costa Brava has banned penis suits and sex dolls as it tries to clamp down on rowdy antisocial behavior brought in by stag and hen dos.
Platja d’Aro is the latest Spanish town to tackle scandalous acts associated to bachelor parties, with other places such as Malaga and Mojacar already having banned sexual objects.
A hen party group is pictured posing with an inflatable sex doll, an item that has been banned in the Costa Brava town of Platka d’Aro.
Bride on a hen do celebration is pictured holding an inflatable penis.
These measures, which are being implemented to clamp down on raucous behavior often brought in by bachelor parties, could be introduced later this month.
Mayor Maurici Jimenez said: ‘These attitudes have an impact on the community’s coexistence and we need to fight against them.’
As an example of scandalous behavior, the head of the Platja d’Aro Local Police, David Puertas, gave the example of a recent incident where a groom was tied to a lamppost with duct tape, while others circled him, chanting and playing loud music until the early hours of the morning.
The bylaw also forbids people from walking around shirtless or in swimsuits in areas that are not close to the beach.
Back in 2022, party hotspot Malaga banned inflatable sex dolls and blow-up penis costumes in a huge crackdown on stag and hen parties
Platja d’Aro is not the first Spanish town aiming to curb pre-wedding parties.
Tossa De Mar and Lloret de Mar, also in Costa Brava, have already implemented similar restrictions, as well as cities like Sevilla, Malaga and Granada in southern Spain.
Back in 2022, party hotspot Malaga banned inflatable sex dolls as part of a huge crackdown on stag and hen nights.
The city authorities introduced the new regulations due to a reported rise in anti-social behavior, often linked to the raunchy parties.
They said the rules intend to ‘preserve the public space as a place of meeting, coexistence, and civility that accommodates the plurality of expressions and diverse ways of life that enrich our city’.
The Spanish resort town of Mojacar also banned giant inflatable naked dolls and novelty penises in 2016, after the local council said it was fed up with unruly groups of men and women, many of them on stag or hen nights, who were giving the popular resort on Spain’s southern Almeria coast a bad image.
Attempts to control antisocial behavior in holiday hotspots comes in the midst of the ongoing anti-tourism protests in Spain, as locals argue holidaymakers are causing too many disruptions to their way of life.
On Tuesday, eight British men who were on a stag do in Majorca were arrested by local police after a fight broke out at a beach-side restaurant, leaving a waiter and two police officers injured.