Have you gone to a bachelor party? Was it what you expected? Have you been to a strip club for a bachelor party? Are you the quiet type or do you howl and holler?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

Answers

My best friend just got married a few weeks ago. I was co-best man, but I'm good friends with his wife, too. So everyone just assumed that I was going out with the "girls". oh ho....guess again. I went out with both of them...but first it was to the strip club. Now there was no way I was getting up on stage with anyone....no way. but I did make an ass of myself by being loud. It was fun.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

never to a bachelor party, but winter of my senior year, i went to visit my best friend at college, and his floormates had gotten another guy on the floor a stripper for his birthday. i watched, along with the three other girls visiting on the floor that weekend. well, and all the guys, too. the girls drank screwdrivers and giggled a lot. i was not impressed all that much.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

I've never had a bachelor party myself (I'm now twenty years into my second marriage) and the one I organized for my brother simply consisted of eating a lot of food and drinking a lot of beer and being rather noisy. However, I have attended bachelor parties that were a bit wilder.

At one bachelor party, as the evening got drunker and hard-core XXX porno movies were being projected on the walls, suddenly a group jumped up and ran over to the groom-to-be, grabbing him and dragging him out to middle of the floor, where they proceeded to strip him naked and then used waterproof markers to write obscene slogans and pictures all over his body. The ringleader of this action (in an accent that would fit right in on The Sopranos, this was a very ethnic gathering) explained this by saying that on his wedding night, many years ago, the groom's father ("your faddah, god rest his soul") had been the instigator of a similar prank pulled upon the speaker, who had then vowed revenge: "I swore to him, Tony, someday I'm gonna do this to your first born!" And he concluded "Now try to explain this to your wife when you take off your clothes on your honeymoon."

At another bachelor party -- with many of the same crowd in attendance -- with much food and even more drink and with strippers (arranged for by the guy who had been the groom at the other party-- let me call him "Tony Jr."). By the way, both of these were large parties, at least sixty or seventy guys. At one point one of the young ladies had climbed up on a table and began to strip. When someone attempted to turn down the lights in the room other than the ones over that table, they were greeted with loud complaints from the group who were involved in a very serious money poker game at a table in a far corner of the room ("Hey, we're tryin to fuckin play cards here, okay?") Later on one of those young ladies was in an alcove providing oral sexual gratification in exchange for cash compensation... and she had a line of customers waiting for their turn. The price, $5, which was quite reasonable even for an upstate NY city almost thirty years ago, combined with the enthusiastic endorsements of her satisifed customers, was attracting a long line. The other stripper had taken the groom into a men's room to bestow a similar favor, paid for by Tony Jr. as a gift. She was quiet annoyed when she returned to the main room to discover that Tony Jr. had persuaded her friend to agree to free BJ's for the best man and ushers. (Me? I just drank beer and enjoyed watching the party, although I contributed when the hat was passed to collect a tip for the strip show.)

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

I normally love bachelor parties. My buddies and I are usually very tame when it comes to these gala occasions. Last night's bachelor party was the most lame I've ever been to. Mostly because the guest of honor wasn't into it at all. We would throw dollar bills at this guy and he'd just stare at us. I think he was stoned. Anyway,(I can't believe I'm saying this about a bachelor party) we called it an early night. I don't care that he wasn't into the night, but I could have done any number of things with my Thursday rather than go to a stranger-who-doesn't-want-to-be-there's bachelor party.So Pamie didn't miss anything. What's on for tonight? LET'S ALL GO TO MEXICO!!!

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

Hell, no. You honestly think Travis would let me go along with him to one of these? I told him once that I'd go, just to see what it was like, and he about fell out of his chair. Now he's all worried that if any of his friends get engaged, he'll have to drag me along to the nudie bar. Little does he know that I'd probably just show up.

I honestly would rather go to a female strip club than a men's. Not that I lean "that way" or anything, but if I had my choice, I wouldn't go see a bunch of Creatin-pumped naked guys. I think most women here will agree with me when I say that naked men are just not a turn-on for us women. Seeing a naked guy standing there does nothing for me - I don't care who it is. Now, a guy wearing jeans and boxers and nothing else.. oh, and while smoking.. now that's a turn-on. :)

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

The best one I went to was a couple years ago. The two strippers worked together, and they did...tricks. Cool tricks. Like shooting ice water from her...well, you get the picture. They had appliances and everything. I tell ya, if you get some experienced professionals, it's practically like commedia del arte or something.

My own bachelor party I remember well, because I had food poisoning and a high fever. My best man practically forced me to come. I had about 8 beers, and then I felt OK.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

I have never been to a batchlor party but I did go to a strip club with my husband and his 2 male cousins.

One of the guys is gay and the other one is married. Of course, the gay cousin and I are at the bar hootin' and hollerin' like a couple of frat boys and sticking dollar bills into the girls cleavage, while my wonderful husband and his other MARRIED cousin are playing pool in a corner! The only time they came to where the action was is when they needed a beer. It was a really fun time and all the strippers were nice to me, i.e., buying me drinks and coming over when I waved the money.

A girl I know got totally offended when I told her I went to a titty bar with my husband but I think she are just slightly jealous of the strippers and a little insecure with her man (DISCLAIMER - that is just this ONE particular woman, not all women who have a problem with this type of activity are jealous or insecure - plus she pissed me off with how disgusted she acted).

Anyway, there were two different batchlor parties happening at the time and I have to say, it was very interesting to see what happens at those things. It was pretty wild but ultimately harmless. I guess it depends on the guys.

In the end, the 4 of us wound up at a table just talking and laughing our asses off until closing time, just like at any other bar.

Plus I had the biggest boobs in the place :)

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

*warning: un-fun bachelor party story below*

I've never been to a bachelor party or a "bachelorette" party, but last spring my boyfriend went to his first bachelor party. We were fighting a lot at the time, and I didn't want him to go, though it wasn't actually a titty bar thing. It was a *midget wrestling* bachelor party. At a country and western bar. In Missouri.

I knew he was going to hate it, but he was feeling contrary and pissy so he went anyway.(This meshes neatly with the "I told you so" theme, by the way.)

Not even an hour later, as I'm snuggled in front of the TV thinking bitter thoughts only occasionally, he comes in the door, looking completely pissed off and upset. It turns out the second or so wrestling match featured "The Queer" vs. The Straight Guy. The "queer" wrestler was horribly stereotypical which was bad enough, but what was worse was that the whole point of the thing was that the "queer" was going to get the shit beaten out of him to the urgings of an extremely enthusiastic crowd. All around my boyfriend, big, drunk men were shouting "Kill the fag! Kill the fag!" (Just a couple of months on the heels of Matthew Shepard, this.)

We have way too many gay and lesbian friends--some of whom have been harassed and/or attacked in various way--for him not to be freaked out and angry about this. He sort of stormed out, I suppose, leaving the rest of the guys there. He came home depressed. (I think I didn't say "I told you so" for at least a couple of days.)

This is my only experience with bachelor parties so far, and I'm thinking titty bars are way preferable.

(By the way, I hope none of the Male Types who post here are going to defend that "queer" wrestling thing as Harmless Manly Fun. If so, be prepared for me to get mad.)

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

Well, my own bachelor party was similar to the one described in Pamie's entry. It was a group of guys at a strip club drinking vodka shots and chatting up the ladies.

At this particular joint, when a group of guys comes in, one of the girls takes up residence at the table to hustle drinks and private dances.

I was a little turned off by her as she was rail-thin and heavily pierced. She offered to give me a blow job in the back room for $50.

I said, "uh, no thanks, darlin'."

Next weekend, I'm planning an outing to a titty bar as I am best man for my buddy Sam's wedding. We'll see how it goes.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

Well... A friend of mine got married a month ago and since we screwed up the last bachelor party (it sucked), we were prepared this time.

Three days before the wedding, the guy thought that he was going out for a drink with an ex-flatmate. But, when they got to the pub, he found another 7 of us wearing black t-shirts with the broken "male symbol" (the one with the circle & arrow) and saying "No more Marko" (which is his name).

After that we had supper, drank really a lot, had him sign a declaration saying he'll go out with friends at least once a weak and other stuff, and then went to the strip club.

We then bought him a lapdance, had a drink and went downtown.

Then the real party began. We took a 210x180 cm (7x6 feet) wooden cross out of the car and had him carry it up to the castle hill (this is in europe, people). There we tied him on the cross, drank some more, sang a lot of songs (we had a guitar), drank some more, looked at the town, drank some more, rolled down a very steep slope, drank some more and went home. About 10 AM.

Deffinitely a good party.

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-- Anonymous, September 17, 1999

No, but somehow my boyfriend gets invited to every bachelorette party in the state . . . I don't quite understand why, though.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

(pamie has been to a bachelor party...)

-- Anonymous, September 22, 1999

ooh, that reminds me, this wasn't my party, but one time, I was in a bar and I saw this guy on his batchelor party with his buddies.

The best part was, the guy had a regulation BOWLING ball, which had a HEAVY 5-foot steel chain drilled into it, which was PADLOCKED to his ankle. Anywhere he had to go for the night, he had to carry that damn thing, it was SO funny....

-- Anonymous, September 24, 1999

Maybe that was us, Jonny. See, my friends and I have a tradition. Started with the first of us to get married. At his bachelor party, we went bar hopping and ended up at a strip club, enjoying the view and buying the groom lap dances, etc. For the entire evening, to simulate marriage, we got him a ball and chain. It's a 15 pound bowling ball with a chain hammered into it, that is padlocked around his ankle. The groom's name and the date of the bachelor party are engraved onto the ball. Then the groom keeps the ball until the next person in our group gets married, and it passes along. So far, there are about 5 or 6 names currently on this bowling ball. You gotta love tradition!

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

yea i been to a party b4 titties everywhere i sucked them and got a bj for 20 dollars it was awsomeeeeeeee

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2001

Are you in San Diego?

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2001