- A tourist town on the Costa Brava has banned penis suits and sex dolls
- The new ban is part of Platja d’Aro’s efforts to crack down on rowdy behaviour.
- People caught wearing scandalous items will be fined up to £1,250
A city on the Costa Brava has banned penis suits and sex dolls, and said it will impose a fine of up to 1,500 euros on single men and women if they are discovered.
Platja d’Aro, a popular tourist town in SpainThe Costa Brava is considered one of the favorites for bachelor parties, thanks to packages that include flights, hotels and the provision of strippers.
Partygoers have often been seen sporting penis suits and other clothing and accessories that reflect human genitalia, but locals are growing tired of their crude antics.
A new regulation has prohibited people from going out in public “without clothes or only in underwear or with clothing or accessories that represent human genitals or with dolls or other accessories of a sexual nature.”
Those caught will have to pay fines of up to 1,500 euros, which is equivalent to about 1,250 pounds. The vanguard reported.
A seaside town on the Costa Brava has banned penis suits and sex dolls as it tries to crack down on rowdy anti-social behavior sparked by stag and hen parties.
Platja d’Aro is the latest Spanish town to face scandalous acts associated with bachelor parties, while other towns such as Málaga and Mojácar have already banned sexual objects.
A hen party group is shown posing with an inflatable sex doll, an item that has been banned in the town of Platka d’Aro on the Costa Brava.
The bride at a bachelorette party is shown holding an inflatable penis.
These measures, which are being implemented to clamp down on the raucous behavior that often occurs at stag parties, could be introduced later this month.
Mayor Maurici Jiménez said: “These attitudes have an impact on community coexistence and we must fight against them.”
As an example of scandalous behavior, the head of the Platja d’Aro Local Police, David Puertas, gave as an example a recent incident in which a boyfriend was tied to a lamppost with duct tape, while others surrounded him singing and playing music. all volume. Until the wee hours of the morning.
The ordinance also prohibits people from walking without a shirt or in a bathing suit in areas that are not close to the beach.
In 2022, Malaga party center banned inflatable sex dolls and inflatable penis costumes in a major crackdown on stag and hen parties.
Platja d’Aro is not the first Spanish city that intends to stop pre-wedding parties.
Tossa De Mar and Lloret de Mar, also on the Costa Brava, have already implemented similar restrictions, as have cities such as Seville, Malaga and Granada in southern Spain.
In 2022, Malaga’s party center banned inflatable sex dolls as part of a major crackdown on stag and hen parties.
City authorities introduced the new regulations due to a rise in antisocial behavior, often linked to raunchy parties.
They said that the rules aim to ‘preserve public space as a place of meeting, coexistence and civility that accommodates the plurality of expressions and diverse forms of life that enrich our city.’
The Spanish resort town of Mojacar also banned giant naked inflatable dolls and novelty penises in 2016, after the city council said it was fed up with unruly groups of men and women, many of them on stag and hen parties, who were giving the popular resort. on the south coast of Almería, Spain, a bad image.
Attempts to rein in anti-social behavior in holiday spots come amid ongoing anti-tourism protests in Spain, as locals argue that tourists are causing too much disruption to their way of life.
On Tuesday, eight British men on a stag party in Mallorca were arrested by local police after a fight broke out at a beachside restaurant, leaving a waiter and two police officers injured.