Malaga puts an end to bachelor parties and prohibits going naked on the street or carrying items of a sexual nature

• Celebrations Goodbye to traditional bachelor parties? More prohibitions and less chaos

After several months of processing, the City Council of Malaga has taken this Thursday the last step to put an end to bachelor parties in the city, prohibiting going naked on the street or carrying articles of a sexual nature, infractions that from now on can be sanctioned with fines of up to 750 euros.

The consistory has definitively approved the modification of the Ordinance for the Guarantee of Citizen Coexistence and Protection of Urban Space, once all the claims and suggestions submitted within the established period have been resolved.

The norm, which has received the green light in the Commission of Social Rights and Citizen Participation, contemplates the prohibition, unless authorized, of "traveling or remaining on the road or public spaces without clothes or only in underwear; with clothing or accessories that represent the genitals of the human being, and with dolls or elements of a sexual nature".

Malaga justifies the modification of this ordinance by the proliferation, in recent years, of certain behaviors linked mostly to private celebrations, as is the case of bachelor and bachelorette parties, with the exclusive use of underwear or erotic content in public spaces.

The objective of the municipal government is to have a new regulation that allows "preserving public space as a place of meeting, coexistence and civility".

The ordinance is based on "a principle of guaranteeing individual rights and freedoms and conforms to punitive measures to the principle of minimum intervention," stresses the City Council.

Thus, individual conduct is classified as an offence only in so far as it affects or impedes the free exercise of other persons.

"In short, this new regulation is intended to curb some uncivil behaviors that may disturb the coexistence between residents and visitors of our city," says the City Council.

In the event of an infraction contemplated in the new regulations, the police will first inform the persons involved about the existence of these prohibitions, and "only if the attitude is not allowed, will the pertinent complaint be formulated".

The ordinance establishes that behaviors that are considered minor offenses can be sanctioned with a fine of up to 750 euros.

Malaga has been one of the first Spanish cities to try to curb the celebration of bachelor parties in the city by modifying its municipal ordinances, as Logroño, León, Salamanca, Seville or Granada are also doing.

The measures adopted range from noise control to more striking actions such as prohibiting going down the street with genital-shaped accessories on the head, with dolls of a sexual nature or in underwear.

The modification of the ordinance of Malaga will enter into force once the opinion to which the Social Rights Commission has given the green light today is approved in the next municipal plenary session - on September 27 - and published in the Official Gazette of the Province (BOP).

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