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Given that for many the tour will probably include strip clubs, brothels and unprotected sex, their brides-to-be should beware. Their man might give them a nasty unexpected wedding present — like herpes, gonorrhoea or syphilis. Staggering statistics show that a THIRD of Brits request unprotected sex with a prostitute on a stag weekend and 36 per cent admit to having cheated on their partners. In Prague there are more than brothels and their best customers are Brits on stags.
The neon-lit streets around Wenceslas Square are teeming with them. Beer is cheap, at a pound a pint, and with no entry charge the brothels and strip joints are packed.
The live lesbian show is a warm up for many of the lads who will end up having sex — in some cases an orgy — with complete strangers. Cassie, a year-old prostitute, has been working in the sex trade in Prague for two years. In a good month I can earn four times more.
Cassie claims never to have unprotected sex. The demand for unprotected sex has seen syphilis rates among the Prague prostitutes rise by 25 per cent year on year. During the trip, the year-old Royal Artillery Gunner visited three sex workers, failed to use protection and got chlamydia. It cost him his dignity and his relationship. I must admit, part of the appeal was the abundance of strip clubs, fit women and brothels.
