Costa Brava city bans penis fits and intercourse dolls from stag and hen dos | Spain

A well-liked resort city on Spain’s Costa Brava has banned inflatable penis costumes and intercourse dolls from stag and hen evening celebrations, with fines of as much as €1,500 (£1,276).

Platja d’Aro, whose inhabitants of 12,500 can host as many as 300,000 guests on a summer season weekend, is a favorite vacation spot for bachelor and bachelorette nights. Quite a few web sites provide packages that embody lodging, cruises and male or feminine strippers.

The brand new bylaw particularly bans folks from showing “on the general public thoroughfare with out clothes or solely of their underwear or with clothes or equipment representing human genitals or with dolls or different equipment of a sexual nature”.

Offenders face fines of from €300-€1,500 (£155-£1,275).

“These attitudes have an effect on the group’s coexistence and we have to struggle towards them,” mentioned the mayor, Maurici Jiménez, including that had been it in his energy to take action, he would ban the celebrations altogether.

For instance of unacceptable behaviour, David Puertas, the native chief of police, cited a current incident the place the groom was strapped to a lamp-post with gaffer tape whereas his companions saved neighbours awake enjoying loud music and singing into the early hours.

The bylaws additionally prohibit going shirtless or in a bikini in areas away from the seashore, a ban that was launched a number of years in the past in Barcelona to little impact as offenders are primarily vacationers who fly dwelling with out paying the fines.

Barcelona, Málaga and Marbella are among the many hottest locations and, between them, host hundreds of stag and hen events that are catered for by firms that provide leisure from paintballing and clubbing to dwell intercourse exhibits. One calls itself, Brothels Barcelona, whereas a hen occasion web site gives a strip present inside a limousine.

Platja d’Aro joins numerous cities which might be struggling to curb the excesses of stag and hen nights, such because the Costa Brava resorts of Tossa de Mar and Lloret de Mar, in addition to cities reminiscent of Sevilla, Málaga and Granada.