Amanda Rivkin

Prague Stag Nights

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag and soon to be married (second from left) Michael Klos, 23, receives a table top lap dance as friends (l-r) Roald de Jongh, 24, Ronald Stelt, 23 and Herman Bruinslol, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands look on at Hot Peppers in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (L-r) Angelo Eleveld, 22, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a stag tourist celebrating the impending marriage of his friend (not pictured) Michael Klos, 23, dances with stranger and fellow stag tourist, the soon to be married Blair Skadden of New Zealand in the "mankini" made famous by British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen in the "Borat" film at the Beer Factory on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (Center) William Gerritsma, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a stag night tourist, blows foam from the top of his beer at his friends at the Beer Factory on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (L-r) Herman Bruinslol, 23, stag and soon to be married Michael Klos, 23, William Gerritsma, 23, Ronald Stelt, 23, Arnold Valkema, 27, and Marco Piepedeen, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands enjoy a round of Jaegerbombs and beers at the Zombie Bar in Prague, Czech Republic as they kick off an evening of stag night activities on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (Center) William Gerritsma, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a stag night tourist, sports a tattop that says, "Wish it, Dream it, Do it," as he drinks with his friends at the Beer Factory on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag night tourist and soon to be married Michael Klos, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands toasts with his friends at the Goldfinger strip club on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Angelo Eleveld, 22, carries his friend Jeffrey Snyder, 23, on his shoulders while drinking with friends at the Beer Factory on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Friends and family hold a stag party for Lee Meynell, 28, of Middlesbrough, England (at left with pink balloon breasts) two weeks ahead of his wedding day at a bar in the Main Square of Prague, Czech Republic on August 5, 2011. Stag, or bachelor, tourism in Central and Eastern Europe is a popular and low cost alternative to holding similar festivities in the U.K., bringing hordes of drunken British men into main squares and bars across the region, drawing complaints from local women.
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag tourists Angelo Eleveld, 22, picks up and spins his friend Sietse Dehaam, 23, as Roald de Jongh, 24, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands tries to spank him as he turns mid-way through the night on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (L-r) Stag night tourists Michael Klos, 23, whips his friend, Arnold Valkema, 27, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands with the aid of a stripper's prop and her encouragement at the Goldfinger strip club on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Marco Piepedeen, 23, grabs stag and soon to be married Michael Klos, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands by the shirt collar as an older local couple walks a few feet ahead on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Herman Bruinslol, 23, William Gerritsma, and Jeffrey Snyder, 23, from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, begin a night out after a day of heavy drinking in Prague, Czech Republic as stag night tourists celebrating the engagement and final nights of freedom of friend Michael Klos, 23, (not pictured) who is getting married in a few weeks time on August 12, 2011.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Michael Klos, 23, Angelo Eleveld, 22, Sietse Dehaam, 23, Marco Piepedeen, 23, and Ronald Stelt, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands feast on fast food sausage sandwiches on the street outside the Hot Peppers strip club after a day of solid drinking and ahead of a night of stag night festivities in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Friends and family hold a stag party for Lee Meynell, 28, of Middlesbrough, England two weeks ahead of his wedding day at a bar in the Main Square of Prague, Czech Republic on August 5, 2011. Stag, or bachelor, tourism in Central and Eastern Europe is a popular and low cost alternative to holding similar festivities in the U.K., bringing hordes of drunken British men into main squares and bars across the region, drawing complaints from local women.
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag night tourist Angelo Eleveld, 22, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands feels sick mid-way through the night as his friends alternatively seek to comfort and tease him while locals look on in consternation on Weneslaus Square in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011. Michael Klos, 23, whose wedding a few weeks later was the occasion for the trip to Prague to celebrate his last nights of freedom, has his arm around his friend.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. (L-r) Stag tourists Herman Bruinslol, 23, and the soon to be married Michael Klos, 23, walk down Weneslaus Square as Sietse Dehaam, 23, all of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, runs up to spank him en route to a strip club in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.