Las Vegas Strip Clubs: Bachelor Parties
June 17, 2009 by diamond
In the past, a bachelor party could commonly involve a black-tie dinner hosted by the groom’s father, with toasts to the groom and the bride. The more recent traditions of hazing, humiliation and debauchery often consuming entire weekends and involving travel to an exotic destination such as Las Vegas or its nearest available facsimile became a staple of bad ’80s sex comedies. (The 1984 Tom Hanks vehicle Bachelor Party hit the genre’s perfecta, featuring beer, drugs, strippers, an ill-fated donkey and MTV video vixen Tawny Kitaen.) (Watch TIME’s video “Beer Pong Strikes Back.”)
By the sexual revolution of the 1960s, women had launched their own version of the prewedding festivities: the bachelorette party. Prior to the late 19th century, women were limited to bridal showers, the main function of which was to acquire a dowry and gifts to prepare them for marriage. Bachelorette parties allowed women the opportunity to express their own sexual freedom with drinking games and (male) strippers. Other couples, uncomfortable with the expectations o …
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