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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A bachelor party
(USA, Canada and South Africa), also known as a stag party, stag night
or stag do (United States, Canada, UK, Ireland and New Zealand), a
bull's party (South Africa), and a buck's party or buck's night
(Australia) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters
marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in
activities a new partner might not approve of, or merely to spend time
with his male friends (who are often in his wedding party afterwards).
Bachelor Parties are usually planned by the best man or occasionally
with the assistance of a bachelor party planning company. A bachelor
party may involve activities beyond the usual party and social gathering
ingredients (often drinking alcohol and gambling), such as going to a
strip club or hiring a stripper, and in some traditions more hazing-like
tests and pranks at the future groom's expense, which shows the whole
thing is also a rite of passage from bachelorhood (associated with an
adolescent lifestyle, often in the common past of most participants,
e.g. in their student years) to "more responsible" marital life.
