Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody. I've read a number of threads where most women seem happy to pack their DPs off to Prague, thinking that the worst that could happen is they'll hopefully won't spend too much money, get mugged or fall over, and the less sensible ones might end up quietly leering at a couple of strippers behind their beers in a raunchy bar.
However, according to this programme, going to a lapdancing club to see strippers and have private dances is pretty much standard on a stag weekend. Prostitution is officially illegal, but the brothels just call themselves lapdancing clubs instead.
The prostitutes and health workers Stacey talked to said that 'every other man' tries not to use a condom, 5 out of 10 men in a stag party use the brothel's services, and the stag is 'always' one of those five. Many men even want to have unprotected sex with prostitutes who have HIV, which they see as some kind of thrill, a bit like bungy jumping. Added to the fact that condoms can't protect you from everything, and any prostitute who has to sleep with a lot of men probably skin infections herpes, genital warts etc and that's quite a public health problem in the making.
These guys will be coming back to sleep with their new wives and passing HIV on to them, which they may not find out for some considerable time, ie when the AIDS symptoms kick in. If the men come back with herpes, the couples will be finding out about it rather sooner, but as herpes is incurable there'll be nothing they can do about it. If these issues may affect you, perhaps the best thing is to watch the programme on iPlayer and see what you think. Where are all these alleged threads with women packing partners off to Prague?
Are you the eponymous Stacey Dooley trying to bump up your own ratings? I detest the whole stag party culture as it's currently stereotyped. Vile, misogynistic, drunken irresponsibility that encourages violence towards men and women and antisocial behaviour. It's a real shame for Prague. Like Amsterdam and Thailand it has an awful lot of history, art, interesting architecture and other features that make it well worth a visit but have now been tainted by the stag destination label.
