0:00:02 > 0:00:05Every year, millions of young Brits head abroad to party.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07SHOUTING
0:00:07 > 0:00:10So I'm travelling to some of our most notorious holiday
0:00:10 > 0:00:15destinations to find out what really happens when the sun goes down.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19It's quite deep, actually. That's quite a lot of blood.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Tonight I'm in Prague.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25It's one of the most beautiful
0:00:25 > 0:00:29cities in Europe, but that's not why thousands of stag parties come here.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31CHANTING
0:00:33 > 0:00:37They're here for the cheap beer and the beautiful women.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41But how much do we really know about this top stag weekend destination?
0:00:41 > 0:00:44- What happens in Prague stays in Prague.- Oh, OK.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I want to discover what life is really like for the thousands
0:00:47 > 0:00:50of girls paid to entertain the stags.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51He wants to eat me.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53He wants to eat you, I bet he does.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Alien? Who wants to have sex with a girl who's dressed up like an alien?
0:00:57 > 0:01:00I join the authorities trying to keep the stags out of trouble.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03They don't even look like marijuana to me.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Oh, my God, it smells a bit funky in here.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07'Get the low-down from those who clean up after them.'
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Semen on the ceiling? - Semen on the ceiling, yeah.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13'Track down the criminals who prey on them.'
0:01:13 > 0:01:15My, God, you've got my passport.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20And find out what really goes on, on a man's last night of freedom.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24She was saying that so many guys want to have sex with girls
0:01:24 > 0:01:28who have got STIs, who have got, you know, who are HIV positive.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31It's like a thrill. It's like a bungee jump for them.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33There are girls watching this in England.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34If their fiance says he's,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37"Oh, I'm going to Prague with the boys", she'll say,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41"No, you're not. You're not going anywhere. I know what happens."
0:01:49 > 0:01:52A short hop on a plane from the UK has brought me to the
0:01:52 > 0:01:55capital of the Czech Republic.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Since the fall of communism and the rise of budget airlines,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01thousands of British men are lured every year to
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Eastern Europe for their stag weekend.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14Obviously, this is my first time here in Prague, erm,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and I know very little about the city as a whole,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19but I do know loads of lads from back home that have been here.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25I want to see why this beautiful city still remains
0:02:25 > 0:02:27a mecca for no-holds-barred stag partying.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36First impressions, this place is utterly beautiful, no?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Millions of people come here every year, the place is mobbed
0:02:38 > 0:02:41with tourists, but I've not seen a fancy dress yet. No stag in sight.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45But when night falls it's a different story,
0:02:45 > 0:02:50as packs of stags take over the city for a different type of sightseeing.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Huge numbers of bars have sprung up to cash in,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03offering them cheap beer and even cheaper thrills.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12And no self-respecting stag party would be complete without
0:03:12 > 0:03:16fancy dress costumes and a check list of forfeits for the stag.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Tonight's night is about shit shirts.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Who's got the shittest shirt?
0:03:21 > 0:03:23You can start it off, yeah?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26# I saw a mouse. Where?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28# There on the stair
0:03:28 > 0:03:31# Where on the stair. Right there. #
0:03:32 > 0:03:34- Photographs with a man-gina. - What's a man-gina?
0:03:34 > 0:03:38ALL SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- This is a man-gina. - SHE SCREAMS
0:03:41 > 0:03:45ALL LAUGH
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Come here a second.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50You've shaved it all off.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55- You've shaved it! - It's called Veet, pet.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Arriving with hundreds of pounds in their pockets,
0:03:57 > 0:04:01groups stagger from bar to bar whilst swarms of persistent
0:04:01 > 0:04:04touts try to part them from their cash.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Where are you off to now?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Away from this bloke here.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11He wants to lead us towards a debauched lifestyle.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Is it your job to get these boys into the bar?
0:04:13 > 0:04:18- Yes.- He gets ten crown for every person he gets in the bar.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20OK. And did he approach you or did you approach him?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22- No, he pestered the- BLEEP - out of us.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26- Yeah. Is there a few of them trying to get you into their bars? - Oh, hundreds, yeah.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31But it's not just bars trying to entice the guys to spend.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Thousands of British stags come to Prague all the time to
0:04:34 > 0:04:36experience the strip clubs and the lap dancing bars,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39so I can't come here and not see what it's all about for myself.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47It looks like this is the real reason many lads have
0:04:47 > 0:04:50travelled hundreds of miles away from home.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53I can't cope with this.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57A standard lap dance here will set you back 35 quid,
0:04:57 > 0:05:00but unlike in Britain, you can pay more for extras.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11These girls are totally, totally making out...
0:05:11 > 0:05:15and the guys are absolutely mesmerised.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18This is the quietest I've seen the club since I've been here.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22I want to know why the strippers put up with working with
0:05:22 > 0:05:25a load of boozed-up Brits every night.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27So, I make my way back stage to speak to Theresa,
0:05:27 > 0:05:29who's worked here for three years.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Tell me exactly what the rules are.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35So you can dance on the guys, get your boobs out,
0:05:35 > 0:05:36your fanny out, but they can't touch?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45OK. And it's good money here?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Say like a shop assistant and a stripper.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51OK, right. So if I can look at it like that,
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- it's like three times, or maybe four times more.- Really?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Right, yeah.- OK. - Definitely.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59And do you ever have sex with the boys?
0:05:59 > 0:06:03- No, no, no, no, that's impossible. - So sex is completely off the cards?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04No, it's impossible.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09I've got to say my impression of the girls that work at that
0:06:09 > 0:06:11particular club, they were saying to me
0:06:11 > 0:06:13that they've got the upper hand. You know, they're earning,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16three, four, five times more than they would
0:06:16 > 0:06:18perhaps do in a regular job.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20The girl I was round the back with said she's made up
0:06:20 > 0:06:22and she wants to do it for a couple more years.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Having had the taste of the typical stag
0:06:28 > 0:06:31evening in Prague, I want to see what it's like for those who
0:06:31 > 0:06:34have to look after the lads when they come back from the clubs.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40So I've come to meet the staff at one of the busiest stag hotels.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44During her time managing the hotel, Barbetta has seen it all.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46They make incredible mess sometimes.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49We were really surprised when we had some big guys and,
0:06:49 > 0:06:52when they checked out, in each room there was
0:06:52 > 0:06:55a massive pink dildo and it just makes you wonder what blokes...
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- What you been doing up there with the dildos?- Yeah.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Lots of sperm.- Sperm? - Yeah.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Loads of semen in the beds, nice.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06- Yeah, yeah. Not only in the beds as well. Yeah sometimes.- Where else?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Err, on the ceiling. We've had it on the ceiling, yeah, yeah.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10On the ceiling? What are they doing?
0:07:10 > 0:07:14It makes you wonder. Oh, they're just really...
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Semen on the ceiling? - Semen on the ceiling, yeah.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21I'm joining receptionist Suzanna on her daily check of the dorm
0:07:21 > 0:07:24rooms, she's also seen some sights.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27There was a guy who, he came in the morning to me,
0:07:27 > 0:07:29- he was covered like with blood. - Blood?
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Everywhere, like on his shoes, hands, like everywhere
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and he told me that he lost everything or somebody stole
0:07:36 > 0:07:38everything from him, keys, wallet everything.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41So I open the door for him and when I opened it,
0:07:41 > 0:07:44there was another guy completely naked just in front of me,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47starting at me. I was staring at him and I was just like...
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Excellent(!) Perfect pair(!)
0:07:48 > 0:07:51- One's covered in blood and one's completely naked.- Yes.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57See, it's another...
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Oh, my God, it smells a bit funky in here.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03It smells like boys.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05'Thankfully this room hasn't been trashed,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09'but so many rooms are, Barbetta has had to put in place a special
0:08:09 > 0:08:10'policy for dealing with stags.'
0:08:12 > 0:08:17You've started taking deposits for stag parties, why do you do that?
0:08:17 > 0:08:22Well, let me give you an example. About three weeks ago,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25we had a group that stayed and they got so pissed
0:08:25 > 0:08:27they kicked the door. And they didn't kick the door,
0:08:27 > 0:08:29they completely wrecked the whole door frame,
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- so we had to replace the whole door frame.- The door frame came off?
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And they were British stags?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- They were British stags, yeah. - Of course they were.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39They're the worst. They're the worst.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- They're the worst?- Yeah.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45It's been a busy weekend for the hotel with problems as usual.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47If you look in the corner over there, you see a guy in a pink
0:08:47 > 0:08:50shirt, and that's the guy that caused a lot of trouble yesterday
0:08:50 > 0:08:55in the bar. He tipped the beer on the floor in front of everyone.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Wankers!
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Yeah.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- You're saying what everyone's thinking.- Yeah.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07How do the Czech people react to the British being sick,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09having a wee on their streets?
0:09:09 > 0:09:13If you're an intelligent human being then you know that they bring
0:09:13 > 0:09:15money and tourism is important.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19So I think, on one hand, people hate it because obviously you don't
0:09:19 > 0:09:23like seeing people weeing and puking and being undressed on the streets.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27But, on the other hand, they do spend money and the economy needs it.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36It's not just the hotels that have to deal with trouble from stags.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I've come to the police CCTV control centre,
0:09:39 > 0:09:41which monitors the whole of Prague.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Hello.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49'Jan and his colleagues survey the city 24/7, and I've asked him
0:09:49 > 0:09:53'to show me some of the footage he's seen as tourists behaving badly.'
0:09:55 > 0:09:58This man decided he wanted to take home a souvenir
0:09:58 > 0:10:01from Prague's historical clock.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05- And this is one of the most famous clocks in Europe.- Yes, yes.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08And, sadly, this is far from an isolated incident.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19OK.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24What a plonker.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Oh, this is in the square.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38How did he get up there? It's so high.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46So he ignored the help.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59God, that's awful.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The locals, people who live in Prague,
0:11:07 > 0:11:12must think, "Why are these tourists behaving so stupidly?"
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Every tourist destination has its problems, that's standard.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30You know, us Brits, we save up all year for our holidays,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32we work hard and we just want to have the best time possible
0:11:32 > 0:11:35and the stags are no exception.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36It's his last night of freedom.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39They've sometimes only got a weekend to get completely carried away,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41so they're just going for it.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45They're not necessarily thinking about the impact that we can have
0:11:45 > 0:11:47on the local people and their home.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Although stag parties can cause trouble,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57they bring a massive boost to the economy.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01On average, each stag can spend £500 during their time in Prague,
0:12:01 > 0:12:05and in the last ten years a whole host of specialist agencies
0:12:05 > 0:12:08have sprung up, hoping to grab a slice of the action.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17This agency does exactly what it says on the T-shirt.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Sergei, Zuska and Veronica work for a company that arrange booze tours,
0:12:21 > 0:12:24excursions and pick-ups from the airport.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Explain to me what your job entails. What do you have to do?
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Well, basically, meet the group, explain to them
0:12:32 > 0:12:35how it goes in here, tell them some stuff they should avoid of,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39where they should be a bit dodgy, yeah, and have fun with them.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Of course, it's always depends on their programme
0:12:41 > 0:12:43and what they've all booked.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And have you ever found stags the next morning with
0:12:45 > 0:12:47the strippers from the night before?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52If it happened then it happened.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- What happens in Prague stays in Prague, so...- Oh, OK.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02We're meeting Dean and his 20 mates, one of the dozens of stag
0:13:02 > 0:13:06groups flying into Prague every weekend during the summer.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- Oh, my God, is this them? - It might be them, it might be not.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12- Oh, my God. - That might be them, actually.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Are they real monks or are they dressed up?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- They saw the shirts, so... - Oh, no, they're real.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Hello, I'm Dean.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Hi. Hello, Dean, nice to meet you.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Ready for your weekend? This is Veronica.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32These are the girls that are going to be helping you.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36'Before Dean's group have even left the airport, guide Sergei is
0:13:36 > 0:13:40'warning them about potential dangers they could face over the weekend.'
0:13:40 > 0:13:41We do have a lot of small crime,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43like really a lot of pickpockets.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45You can see them in the clubs, yeah.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Some of the clubs, you can see them.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49I don't know, on the streets all the time,
0:13:49 > 0:13:51so if you have your wallet in here, the back right pocket,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54that's probably the worst place, ever, ever.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01But danger is the last thing on the lads' minds.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Please don't let any cops see you, thank you!
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- So, listen, you've all got girls sat at home.- Yeah, yeah.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17What do you think you're going to be doing this weekend?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Mainly hooking up with prostitutes.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21ALL LAUGH
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- You think you're going to be doing that, Toby?- We like...
0:14:23 > 0:14:26There are four guys in relationships and in one Toby statement
0:14:26 > 0:14:27we're now all single.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30And what are you most looking forward to?
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Just having the lads all together, just having a good laugh, really.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- Erm, and hopefully... - Be honest with me, Toby.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39I want to see some women.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41I want to see some hot women and I want them to get their tits out.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43They're very, very beautiful, Toby.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45You're going to be blown away when you get out the car.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I'm hoping I'll be blown a lot.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49ALL LAUGH
0:14:49 > 0:14:52I'm keen to find out just how much of this talk
0:14:52 > 0:14:54is classic male bravado.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56But, for now, I'm leaving Dean
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and his mates for what they say will be a few quiet pints.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07The next day, I'm wondering just how wild things have gotten.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Hi.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12- ALL:- Hello.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Dean, you've never looked so beautiful.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I have my doubts.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Does it fit you?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23No! Look at the back!
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Tell me about last night, what happened?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Nothing. We, we, we took in some sights.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30I read a very good book.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34- Amazing book, 50 Shades Of Grey. - 50 Shades Of Prostitutes.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Toby, did you get lucky last night?
0:15:36 > 0:15:40No, no, no and apparently there's a language barrier.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41She wanted to snog,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43I wanted to have sex with her,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47so we met in the middle and decided to go our separate ways.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49How is that meeting in the middle?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51CHANTING
0:15:51 > 0:15:55The lads have invited me along for the local stag speciality,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57a slap-up steak dinner with a saucy side order.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06They've got their steak,
0:16:06 > 0:16:09so now the lads are baying for the other item on the menu.
0:16:09 > 0:16:15Tits! Tits! We want some tits, tits, tits! We want some tits.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23I've read that almost three quarters of men at stag parties admit
0:16:23 > 0:16:26to lying to their partners about what they did
0:16:26 > 0:16:29when they are away and I'm beginning to see why.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38After all of their bravado, it seems that the point of this strip
0:16:38 > 0:16:40show is simply to embarrass and humiliate
0:16:40 > 0:16:44stag Dean as much as possible in front of friends and family.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Dean may be dying of embarrassment
0:16:54 > 0:16:58but I want to find out how stripper Andrea feels about it all.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00How many stag parties do you do every weekend?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07What's the worst thing about your job?
0:17:12 > 0:17:16And, ordinarily, people behave quite well or sometimes do
0:17:16 > 0:17:20you have people trying to grope you or be aggressive?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32The whole atmosphere was really harmless, like I didn't feel intimated.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35I didn't feel like they stepped too, you know, across the line.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I don't feel like they got too carried away.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39It was a bit boyish, bit boisterous, bit sort of caveman,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42loads of sort of chanting and all that jazz. But, to be honest, I spoke
0:17:42 > 0:17:46to the girls for a while and they said to me that they love their job.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48They said they don't feel exploited.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51The wouldn't do it if they didn't want to do it and,
0:17:51 > 0:17:53actually, one of them was particularly feisty
0:17:53 > 0:17:55and there's no mucking about with her.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00So, erm, they all seem reasonably happy with the set up.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06It may all be innocent fun for Dean and his mates,
0:18:06 > 0:18:10but I'm keen to see where some men go when they want more than a strip.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14This morning, I've arranged to go
0:18:14 > 0:18:17and meet a guy who manages a gentleman's club and I'm pretty
0:18:17 > 0:18:18sure that sex does go on here,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21but prostitution in Prague is a tricky one. It's quite a grey area.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Bits of it are legal and bits of it are totally illegal,
0:18:24 > 0:18:27so I need to have a chat with him and find out what's what.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Prostitution may be legal in the Czech Republic, but running
0:18:30 > 0:18:34a brothel is not, so establishments avoid getting into trouble
0:18:34 > 0:18:38by thinly disguising themselves as strip joints and massage parlours.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45But they run the danger of being shut down by the police
0:18:45 > 0:18:47and the managers imprisoned.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- Hello. - Hello, Stacey.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Fabio? - Yeah, that's me.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56How's things? Really, really nice to meet you.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Nice to meet you, too and welcome to K5. Relax.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Thank you. I'm feeling very relaxed.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03And tell me very simply what it is that,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05that happens here in this place?
0:19:05 > 0:19:11Er, people come here just to have fun, er, in the club, to relax
0:19:11 > 0:19:16and many, many rooms where the customer can enjoy with the girls.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18- Have sex?- No, no.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Fabio?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23- We cannot say it like this. - What's the matter with you?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26So there's rooms here that the girls can take the gentleman into to
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- enjoy themselves?- Yeah, to enjoy. Let's say enjoy, please,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34because it doesn't work when they know something else.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37What happens there, we never know.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38- We never know.- Never.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Scrabble, Monopoly...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Poker, poker.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44- Oh, poker.- Chess.- Chess.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48- Excellent, OK, so we won't say they have sex.- No.- OK.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51You can see here we have a guest book.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57- There are a lot of British people that have signed it.- OK.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59All satisfied customers.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Basically, yes. I mean, when they sign here, they are always satisfied.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08Oh, he's very satisfied. "I just had sex. Will definitely be back.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- "I will be back." - Mmm, yes.- Ahhhh.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15It can be, I know.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18You can show me the club, that's possible?
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- So I can see what you mean? - Yeah, yeah, we can go.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24Concerned, manager Fabio is keen to reiterate his point.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- You don't have to speak about sex, Stacey.- What?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30No, because it's illegal here.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Here we are. And this is the cocktail bar. We have here...
0:20:35 > 0:20:39In the downstairs cocktail bar, Fabio introduces me
0:20:39 > 0:20:40to a group of waiting girls
0:20:40 > 0:20:45he still insists they aren't there to have sex with the customers.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48And the last one is Paula, she's Brazilian, already prepared.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Oh, Paula, you look beautiful. Hello, love, how are you?
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Fine.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54For stag dos you do this?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Yes.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- They like it?- Yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02The English stags, how do they react when they see you like this?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06He wants to eat you, I bet he does. Yes.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Why can't you do this job in Brazil?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13You don't like.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Oh, OK. OK.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20So you can't do this job in Brazil
0:21:20 > 0:21:23because then your family might find out what you do?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25OK.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28There isn't just a choice of girls on offer,
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Fabio provides a hi-tech way of customising the whole experience.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34This touch screen gives you the chance to make a virtual
0:21:34 > 0:21:38tour of our club.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41So it shows you what rooms are here and where you can go.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- So every customer... - That's amazing.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47..can basically choose the room he likes. We have the green one.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- Jungle room. - Yeah, the jungle.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Oh, my God, I can't think of anything worse.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- OK. That's the jungle room. Space room?- Yeah.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59These rooms all exist in this place?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Yeah, sure, sure. We don't give any fake.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06So they can pick a themed room, they can pick a girl,
0:22:06 > 0:22:11they can pick what the girl wears, they can pick everything. Alien?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Who wants to have sex with a girl who's dressed up like an alien?
0:22:14 > 0:22:18They pick alien in the space room, so everything is...
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Of course they do. So what makes this perfectly legal?
0:22:22 > 0:22:27I mean, we don't... We just give to our customers chance to
0:22:27 > 0:22:32go in a private room with our girls for basically massage,
0:22:32 > 0:22:38so normally we don't know what is going on in that room.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- And that's perfectly legal, isn't it?- I mean, this is...
0:22:42 > 0:22:43It's tolerated.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46And, Fabio, tell me how lucrative a business this is
0:22:46 > 0:22:50because, everywhere I go in Prague, I see so many strip bars,
0:22:50 > 0:22:55lap dancing clubs, brothels, gentleman's clubs. It's a big deal?
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Yeah, it's a big deal. Why it's a big deal?
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Because...
0:23:01 > 0:23:08There are so many countries that don't permit this kind of stuff.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09OK.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12With management maintaining that no sex goes on here, maybe Lara,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15one of the girls, will give me an honest answer.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20OK. So welcome to our igloo room. SHE LAUGHS
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Brilliant. Brilliant.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Well, this is the first room I've ever seen like this in all my life,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29I've got to say.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33It's a bit weird, isn't it? If you're trying to go for it,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35and then you look up and there's a polar bear stating at you.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41Formerly a porn star, 33-year-old Lara has worked here for four years.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46Are they quite open about what they want? Are they quite transparent?
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Yeah.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50They say, "I want you to give me a blow job"
0:23:50 > 0:23:54- "I want you to have normal sex with me, different positions."- Yeah.
0:23:54 > 0:23:59What percentage of the guys don't want to use condoms, would you say?
0:23:59 > 0:24:0230% maybe.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06For me, no. I think maybe they can choose some girl
0:24:06 > 0:24:10and maybe the girls say yes.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14But from my friends that I sit with them,
0:24:14 > 0:24:17I think nobody from them do this.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21So when the English stag dos come over, if there are ten of them,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24how many of them will end up sleeping with one of you girls?
0:24:24 > 0:24:29Mostly the one who will get married later.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32From ten, like five go...
0:24:32 > 0:24:37- Wow! OK. So half but nearly always the stag?- Yeah.- Oh.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40For sure, this one, always.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Uh-oh.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45The girls watching this in England,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49if their fiance says, "Oh, I'm going to Prague with the boys", she'll
0:24:49 > 0:24:50say, "No, you're not.
0:24:50 > 0:24:56"You're not going anywhere. I know what happens." He'll be in trouble.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08You know, it would be unfair for me to suggest that every single
0:25:08 > 0:25:11stag party that comes to visit Prague are using
0:25:11 > 0:25:14the prostitutes that are sat in the brothels - that's not the case.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18And I'm not saying that, but I've spoken to prostitutes who have told
0:25:18 > 0:25:21me that some stags are their best customers, you know, that is fact.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25There could be around 3,000 prostitutes in over 70
0:25:25 > 0:25:28brothels here in Prague, and it's very easy to see how
0:25:28 > 0:25:31competition can be rife amongst the girls.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32You know, some of them
0:25:32 > 0:25:36might feel obliged to do things that the other girls won't necessarily
0:25:36 > 0:25:38do, like have sex without condoms and lower their prices.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44After Lara's alarming claim that even in a high-end
0:25:44 > 0:25:48establishment, a third of all customers ask for unprotected sex,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51I'm checking online to see for myself
0:25:51 > 0:25:54if this is really what many of the British guys visiting here want.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00I'm actually quite surprised, having a look at this internet forum.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02There's guys here saying exactly what
0:26:02 > 0:26:04they want from the girls in Prague.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07There's loads of people giving them loads of recommendations,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10It's like, "I want to have sex with this type of girl.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13"I want her to do this. I want her to look like that.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16"I want her to be this close to that hotel."
0:26:16 > 0:26:20I mean, it's almost like a trip advisor for sex in Prague.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22It's... It's nuts.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25And there's so many posts.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28There's hundreds and hundreds of posts.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Massively derogatory like towards the girls.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33There's the hottest girls and then he says where you can find them, but
0:26:33 > 0:26:36then he says there's some minging ones.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38There's disgusting girls you wouldn't go near.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42I'm sure he obviously looks like Brad Pitt(!)
0:26:42 > 0:26:46And there is one enquiry that comes up time and time again.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49A lot of people are still willing to pay extra to convince a girl
0:26:49 > 0:26:52that a condom is not necessary.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54It's kind of like Russian Roulette, eh?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57It seems like there's a real appetite
0:26:57 > 0:26:59for these guys to have sex without a condom.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Erm, loads of them are asking other guys,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03"Do you know anyone who will do it without?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06"Do you know anyone who will give bareback blow jobs?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08"Who will let me do them up the arse?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11"Who will they let me have sex without nothing?"
0:27:11 > 0:27:13And then listing the names of girls who they've done
0:27:13 > 0:27:15it with in the past, unprotected.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21I'd be devastated if my boyfriend came to Prague on a stag do,
0:27:21 > 0:27:25or came out here with his boys, got carried away, found himself
0:27:25 > 0:27:27having sex with a prostitute unprotected,
0:27:27 > 0:27:32came home and then had sex with me and gave me any kind of STD.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35It's not...
0:27:35 > 0:27:36It's not a joke.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42With such an obvious health risk, both for the British guys
0:27:42 > 0:27:43and the girls here,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I'm keen to meet an organisation that is addressing this.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Bliss Without Risk tries to prevent the spread of sexually
0:27:52 > 0:27:55transmitted diseases amongst Prague's prostitutes.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- Hello? - Hello, Stacey.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- Are you Hannah?- Yes, I am Hannah. I am waiting for you.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02Nice to meet you.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Hannah Malanova set up the organisation
0:28:04 > 0:28:0725 years ago, initially responding to the need
0:28:07 > 0:28:11to test traffic prostitutes who were not able to leave their brothels.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17We call it Mobile Mountain.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21When Mohammed doesn't come to mountain, the mountain...
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- The mountain goes to Mohammed, yes. - ..goes to Mohammed.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Now every week their ambulance visits brothels around the city,
0:28:30 > 0:28:35carrying out rapid tests for HIV and other STIs.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39How many clients ask the girls to have sex without a condom
0:28:39 > 0:28:41because a lot do, don't they?
0:28:41 > 0:28:45A lot try it. Many of them, they try it.
0:28:45 > 0:28:50That's insane. That's a really crazy thought that loads of British
0:28:50 > 0:28:54tourists are asking for sex without a condom. I don't understand.
0:28:55 > 0:29:02If the girl tell him that she is HIV positive, yes?
0:29:02 > 0:29:03Yeah.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08He wants sex without condom.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Why? Why?
0:29:13 > 0:29:15- They have no brain.- Obviously!
0:29:15 > 0:29:18That's ridiculous.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22So if she says "I've got HIV. I'm HIV positive."
0:29:22 > 0:29:27- And the customer still says, "I want to have unprotected sex."- Yes.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Why do you think anyone would be that stupid?
0:29:32 > 0:29:35It's like bungee jumping.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Like a thrill?
0:29:37 > 0:29:39- "Will I or won't I catch it?" - Yes.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45This evening, Hannah
0:29:45 > 0:29:48and her team are testing all of the prostitutes who work at this
0:29:48 > 0:29:52brothel for a number of STIs, including HIV and syphilis.
0:29:54 > 0:29:59I hate having my blood taken. I'm such a wimp but I can't look.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01- Whenever I get my blood taken, I cry.- Yeah?
0:30:01 > 0:30:02Yeah?
0:30:02 > 0:30:04THEY LAUGH
0:30:05 > 0:30:08Is it important for you to get tested frequently
0:30:08 > 0:30:10because of the job you do?
0:30:14 > 0:30:18And Hannah was telling me that lots of customers ask for sex
0:30:18 > 0:30:21without a condom, do they ask you for this a lot?
0:30:24 > 0:30:26It's very, very wise.
0:30:27 > 0:30:32So many guys want to have sex with girls who have got STIs,
0:30:32 > 0:30:35who have got, you know, who are HIV-positive, it's like a thrill,
0:30:35 > 0:30:37it's like a bungee jump for them,
0:30:37 > 0:30:42which I just cannot get my head around that mentality at all.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44The girls are always asked to have sex without a condom,
0:30:44 > 0:30:46fair amount of the time.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52Hello, it's cold today.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56How do they try and tempt you into having sex without anything?
0:30:56 > 0:30:58Do they offer more money?
0:30:58 > 0:31:00They offer money.
0:31:00 > 0:31:01How much more?
0:31:03 > 0:31:06That's like 40 quid. 30, 40 quid.
0:31:06 > 0:31:07Are you ever tempted?
0:31:09 > 0:31:11No, never.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15Thank God services like this exist, because when you've got
0:31:15 > 0:31:18so much sex going on, in such a small area,
0:31:18 > 0:31:22it's inevitable that massive problems are going to occur.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27# Feeling my way through the darkness
0:31:27 > 0:31:30# Guided by a beating heart
0:31:31 > 0:31:35# I can't tell where the journey will end
0:31:35 > 0:31:38# But I know where to start... #
0:31:38 > 0:31:39Back in the old town
0:31:39 > 0:31:44and groups of British stags are carrying on their 48-hour party.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46So what did you do last night?
0:31:46 > 0:31:48What did you do last night?
0:31:48 > 0:31:52THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:31:52 > 0:31:54We can't talk about that.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56They may not want to reveal what they got up to last night,
0:31:56 > 0:32:01but some groups are happy to share their less-than-positive experiences.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04We came here for a good laugh, a piss-up, a great stag do
0:32:04 > 0:32:07and unfortunately what we found was there's loads of groups,
0:32:07 > 0:32:08I don't know where they're from,
0:32:08 > 0:32:11groups in here trying to pressure us into taking drugs.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14And if the stags can't be persuaded to part with their cash,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16it seems that it can be easily taken from them.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18So you lost money last night?
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Aye, 500...crabs
0:32:21 > 0:32:23Crowns. 500 crowns.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26It was in his back pocket and these guys were doing all this,
0:32:26 > 0:32:29"All right, how are you? Have you got a lighter?" All that stuff.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31So they're looking like they're after a lighter,
0:32:31 > 0:32:34and he's taking all your money out of your pocket.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44So how much did she take, how much do we think she took?
0:32:46 > 0:32:50150 euros down and he thinks it was the prostitute that approached him?
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Yeah.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56MUSIC: "Swimming Pools (Drank)" by Kendrick Lamar
0:32:57 > 0:33:01Most stag parties start their evening in the Old Town area
0:33:01 > 0:33:05and gradually migrate to the strip bars around Wenceslas Square.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07- # Pour up - # Drank
0:33:07 > 0:33:08- # Head shot - # Drank
0:33:08 > 0:33:10- # Sit down - # Drank... #
0:33:10 > 0:33:12Often drunk on cheap beer, this makes them
0:33:12 > 0:33:15easy targets for a host of petty criminals.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22'I'm interested to know what the police are doing to protect them,
0:33:22 > 0:33:26'so I'm joining officers Sandra, Jada and John on their nightly patrol.'
0:33:26 > 0:33:28- Jada.- Jada?- Jada.- I'm Stacey.
0:33:31 > 0:33:35'From May to September, over 20% more officers are taken
0:33:35 > 0:33:38'from other areas and deployed on the streets of central Prague
0:33:38 > 0:33:41'to help look after the tourists and stags.'
0:33:43 > 0:33:44How much of your time
0:33:44 > 0:33:49and your efforts are spent looking after policing and protecting stags?
0:33:49 > 0:33:54At the night-time, most of our time, especially through the weekends.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Most of the time you know we have to go and help them out,
0:33:56 > 0:34:02especially when they, erm, meet with some bad people,
0:34:02 > 0:34:10they are like, erm, prey, prey for the night creatures, I would say.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13'It's not long before the officers spot someone they suspect
0:34:13 > 0:34:16'as preying on the tourists by trying to sell them drugs.'
0:34:16 > 0:34:17Is that weed?
0:34:18 > 0:34:21'But all is not as it seems.'
0:34:21 > 0:34:25He is trying to sell this to the tourist, it's the fake one.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28This is not marijuana, it's a pine tree, actually,
0:34:28 > 0:34:31They just look like a drug and that's what he's selling.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34It's legal to have a little bit of a drug on you,
0:34:34 > 0:34:36like for your personal use,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39so that's what he is showing to the potential buyer
0:34:39 > 0:34:43and actually this is what the people really get.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46They don't even look like marijuana to me
0:34:46 > 0:34:50and how many British tourists buy this off of you?
0:34:51 > 0:34:52Every day?
0:35:01 > 0:35:04So you say we're the fish, the tourists are the fish,
0:35:04 > 0:35:07you put your line out
0:35:07 > 0:35:10and then if you've made a beeline for that tourist
0:35:10 > 0:35:14and someone else comes in, "No, no, no, get away, I saw them first."
0:35:17 > 0:35:21Because it isn't actually drugs, is he OK to just go on his way?
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Can you do anything physically?
0:35:23 > 0:35:27No, no, because he didn't break any law, he's not selling any drugs,
0:35:27 > 0:35:30he doesn't have the amount of drugs which is illegal,
0:35:30 > 0:35:34so he's free to go. He didn't do basically nothing and cheating,
0:35:34 > 0:35:37you know we can't charge him, it's not a felony unfortunately.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39That's good news for you.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46'Sandra tells me it's when the stags leave the bars
0:35:46 > 0:35:49'and clubs that the real problems can occur.'
0:35:53 > 0:35:57'They are often the victims of thieves pretending to be prostitutes.'
0:35:57 > 0:36:00They usually drug them, you know, put the sleeping pills,
0:36:00 > 0:36:02they usually don't like any sex with them,
0:36:02 > 0:36:06they just try to rob them, that's the purpose, you know.
0:36:06 > 0:36:10'And amazingly, the worst offenders are well known to the police.'
0:36:10 > 0:36:12You see the small one?
0:36:12 > 0:36:14So the lady with the fag in her mouth, the erm, the cigarette.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16Yes, that's her.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19She's well known for putting Rohypnol into guy's drinks
0:36:19 > 0:36:24and the guy in the green, er, chequered, he is the protection.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26That's insane.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29'The police can't do anything without any firm evidence,
0:36:29 > 0:36:33'even it seems when known criminals will admit all.'
0:36:33 > 0:36:35Tell me what you're doing out there this evening.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37SANDRA TRANSLATES
0:36:40 > 0:36:41Prostitution, we're talking?
0:36:44 > 0:36:47OK. Do you pickpocket?
0:36:47 > 0:36:48No(!)
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Come and talk to me.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00That's how you justify it.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03What's the highest amount that you've been able to pickpocket
0:37:03 > 0:37:04from a British tourist?
0:37:06 > 0:37:09SANDRA: She said around something between 20-30,000 Czech crowns,
0:37:09 > 0:37:12so we're talking about 1,000 euros.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14- 1,200 euros.- Yeah.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17One person you've taken that amount off?
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Yeah, she's good.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25And I mean you're the police, and you've got a lady standing
0:37:25 > 0:37:29here blatantly saying that she's pickpocketing from lots
0:37:29 > 0:37:33and lots and lots of British tourist, how can you not arrest her?
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Because she is just saying it. She doesn't have the money on her,
0:37:36 > 0:37:40we don't have the victim who will say, "Yeah, that was her
0:37:40 > 0:37:42"and I lost this, this, this."
0:37:42 > 0:37:45You know, if we don't have a victim, we can't charge her
0:37:45 > 0:37:49just on something she was saying, her lawyer would eat us alive.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50And I guess as well, you know
0:37:50 > 0:37:54a British tourist who's had sex or had a blow job off this lady
0:37:54 > 0:37:58is not going to be coming forward to quickly admit that even if
0:37:58 > 0:38:00he has been robbed, he'd be too embarrassed.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08Sounds to me like there's so many laws that aren't adhered to,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12there's so many rules that you can just break and get away with here.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15Mm-hm. That's correct, that's true.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18So does that send out a signal to tourists,
0:38:18 > 0:38:21to stags to bachelors that you can pretty much do as you please
0:38:21 > 0:38:25- in Prague and there's no consequences?- It does, it does.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29It's ridiculous! It's like all these laws are in place, but actually
0:38:29 > 0:38:32you're not well equipped enough to even make sure the law is...
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Yeah, they do not support us.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41- I'll see you soon, yeah? - OK.- Bye, thank you.- Bye.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45I've definitely learnt a lot tonight. There's
0:38:45 > 0:38:47so much police presence out here, the tourists would be
0:38:47 > 0:38:50forgiven for thinking that they're probably very safe and
0:38:50 > 0:38:53they're being taken care of, but actually when you get speaking
0:38:53 > 0:38:56to the police and you spend a lot of time with them, you see that the
0:38:56 > 0:38:59powers they have are actually quite limited and the laws have stripped
0:38:59 > 0:39:05them from doing so many things, that perhaps they should be doing.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18It's clear that pickpocketing in the centre of Prague is rife,
0:39:18 > 0:39:21so I want to talk to some thieves the law has caught up with,
0:39:21 > 0:39:25to try and understand why stag groups make such easy targets.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33I'm in Pankrac Prison, home to over 800 prisoners
0:39:33 > 0:39:37including convicted pickpockets who are happy to talk to me.
0:39:39 > 0:39:4328-year-old Simon is six months into his six-year sentence.
0:39:47 > 0:39:48And who teaches you?
0:39:57 > 0:39:59And why do you always go to the tourists?
0:40:11 > 0:40:14Simon's story is a common one in this prison.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21Miskov also started his life of crime when he was a child.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24How long had you been pickpocketing in total, years?
0:40:26 > 0:40:30- Six years old?- Yes. - Wow and how old are you now?
0:40:32 > 0:40:34And the way the British stag parties behave,
0:40:34 > 0:40:36does that make it easy for you?
0:40:52 > 0:40:56So you've got a bag here and then you put your hand over the back.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58Oh, my God, you've got my passport!
0:40:58 > 0:41:01It's because you've been doing it since you were six!
0:41:01 > 0:41:03And how much is enough for you in a day?
0:41:07 > 0:41:102,000 euros or 2,000 crown? 2,000 euros?!
0:41:15 > 0:41:17What do you need 2,000 euros a day for?
0:41:17 > 0:41:20No-one earns that kind of money, that's just greedy, no?
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Can you see how some people...?
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Cars, the list continues.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30S500 Mercedes.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34- Mercedes?- Yes.- You were driving around in a Mercedes?
0:41:34 > 0:41:37S500, the biggest one.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40- The biggest one? - Yes, limousine.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44Limousine. Course you were, brilliant(!)
0:41:44 > 0:41:46The guys in there are very open, they're very honest, erm,
0:41:46 > 0:41:52they'll say, "We look at British stags as walking open wallets.
0:41:52 > 0:41:56"They've got loads of money, they bring money out with them
0:41:56 > 0:42:00"every night, it's easy, it's no issue for us."
0:42:00 > 0:42:02None of them say it's difficult, none of them
0:42:02 > 0:42:05say it's a hard thing to do, they say it takes one or two seconds,
0:42:05 > 0:42:08couple of hundred euros and on to the next one.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14After hearing the startling confessions from the pickpockets,
0:42:14 > 0:42:16I want to see what the authorities have to say.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22So I've come to question the mayor of central Prague,
0:42:22 > 0:42:26to see if he knows what's going on and what he plans to do about it.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29Really nice to meet you, and thank you so much for your time.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33- Sit down, please.- When I spent time with the police, they pointed out
0:42:33 > 0:42:37lots of different things to me that was supposed to be illegal,
0:42:37 > 0:42:40so brothels exist, but they're supposed to be illegal.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42They pointed out drug dealers
0:42:42 > 0:42:45that they categorically knew were drug dealers,
0:42:45 > 0:42:48but unless they saw them physically taking the money and giving
0:42:48 > 0:42:52the drugs, they were powerless. That needs to change, surely?
0:42:53 > 0:42:58Sure, the system must be more
0:42:58 > 0:43:02and more hard with this level of criminality.
0:43:02 > 0:43:06I think the issue from the outside looking in,
0:43:06 > 0:43:09is that there's too many grey areas,
0:43:09 > 0:43:11there's no definites.
0:43:11 > 0:43:15You feel it exactly.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19We must find some stronger rules,
0:43:19 > 0:43:21it's criminal, it's not criminal,
0:43:21 > 0:43:23it is possible, it is not possible,
0:43:23 > 0:43:29it is legal, it is not illegal, it's our problem, I do think clearly.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33- That's a problem that needs addressing.- Yeah.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36When do you think that will happen?
0:43:36 > 0:43:40We are sending every day some offers to Czech Parliament
0:43:40 > 0:43:43to change some rules.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48It's our every-day job.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52Tell me how you feel about the fact that there are
0:43:52 > 0:43:55so many brothels in Prague?
0:43:55 > 0:44:00We would like to get out from the centre of the city,
0:44:00 > 0:44:04show some place out from Prague.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08Say, yes, in this place, it's open area
0:44:08 > 0:44:15for this activity, but we would like not to be in the centre of the city.
0:44:15 > 0:44:20- That's interesting. So you're thinking about designing...- Yeah.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24..almost, an area in Prague, away from the centre.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28Because it's my problem in the centre of Prague to a little
0:44:28 > 0:44:35bit shifted to do other areas and not in the centre.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39Well, yeah, I think to just shift a problem,
0:44:39 > 0:44:44is quite irresponsible, you have to try and tackle it, surely?
0:44:44 > 0:44:48Why put it in one place,
0:44:48 > 0:44:50the sex tourists, with other tourists?
0:44:50 > 0:44:55Because I feel that we are not er, powerful to stop it absolutely.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00I feel like if you're happy to welcome
0:45:00 > 0:45:04so many tourists into your part of the city, you need to make sure
0:45:04 > 0:45:08they're well looked after. The mayor says he wants to do that,
0:45:08 > 0:45:10he thinks that the laws need to change,
0:45:10 > 0:45:12they need to be a lot clearer.
0:45:14 > 0:45:17So you hope he means what he says
0:45:17 > 0:45:20and you hope that in the future
0:45:20 > 0:45:21we ARE less of a target.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26The policy that the mayor seems most committed to is to move
0:45:26 > 0:45:29the illegal brothels to the edge of the city.
0:45:29 > 0:45:33One company has already made the move away from the tourist centre,
0:45:33 > 0:45:36and with cheaper overheads, it has been able to take adult
0:45:36 > 0:45:39entertainment to a whole new level.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42I'm outside Prague's biggest sex club,
0:45:42 > 0:45:45and I've got to say I can't quite believe the enormity of it,
0:45:45 > 0:45:48it's absolutely massive. It's a bit like a retail park,
0:45:48 > 0:45:50but for girls and sex.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52I'm looking forward to getting inside,
0:45:52 > 0:45:56speaking to the girls that work there and find out what goes on.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08At this venue, up to 50 girls work seven days a week.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Like a recreation centre, this.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23The girls can expect to earn over £300 a night here
0:46:23 > 0:46:27when the average Czech only takes home £800 a month.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31One of the young women has agreed to talk to me
0:46:31 > 0:46:33before she starts her shift.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36Hello! Lucy?
0:46:36 > 0:46:38- Yes.- Lucy, I'm Stacey. - Nice to meet you, Stacey.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41Lovely to meet you too and I'm going to have a bit of a tour with you,
0:46:41 > 0:46:44- you're going to show me where you work today?- Yeah.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46- Shall we go now? - Yeah, follow me, yeah.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52- OK so this is my friend, Suzy. - How long are you working for today?
0:46:52 > 0:46:55- Today, all night. - All night!- Yeah.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57What time will you finish?
0:46:57 > 0:46:596:00, 6:00 in the morning.
0:46:59 > 0:47:01- 6am?!- Yes.
0:47:01 > 0:47:05- That's a long shift, 18 hours? - Yes.- Ooh!
0:47:05 > 0:47:07OK, going to be a busy night?
0:47:09 > 0:47:10OK.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14Lucy takes me into the room she'll spend the next 18 hours in.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16- OK and we're OK to come in here? - Yes.
0:47:16 > 0:47:18But the management here insists
0:47:18 > 0:47:20on monitoring our conversation the whole time.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24How old are you Lucy, what age are you?
0:47:26 > 0:47:28I can't believe you're 19,
0:47:28 > 0:47:30you're so young and so beautiful.
0:47:30 > 0:47:35You're the same age as my baby sister, she's 19.
0:47:35 > 0:47:36- Really?- Uh-huh.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38Wow.
0:47:38 > 0:47:42How long have you worked here, at Show Park?
0:47:42 > 0:47:43- Six months.- Six months.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46And you're enjoying it, you like it?
0:47:49 > 0:47:53TRANSLATION:
0:47:53 > 0:47:58What is it that you don't enjoy, what don't you like?
0:48:04 > 0:48:08TRANSLATION OF MAN'S VOICE:
0:48:33 > 0:48:36And how have you found yourself here?
0:48:52 > 0:48:55So you're in debt, is that right?
0:49:02 > 0:49:05OK, so were you homeless at one point?
0:49:11 > 0:49:14'I'd hoped to find out more about Lucy's experiences
0:49:14 > 0:49:16'of living and working here,
0:49:16 > 0:49:19'but the management are unhappy with my questions.'
0:49:19 > 0:49:22TRANSLATION OF WOMAN'S VOICE
0:49:26 > 0:49:28This is actually showing
0:49:28 > 0:49:31that if it wasn't for this place,
0:49:31 > 0:49:32if it wasn't for this employment,
0:49:32 > 0:49:35she would not be able to survive, so it's...
0:49:35 > 0:49:38She's able to earn a lot of money, it's giving lots of employment.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45It's not dark, it's truthful, it's honest, that she's got the hump.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53My chat with Lucy comes to an end,
0:49:53 > 0:49:57leaving me massively frustrated that I am unable to ask what I want.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59I think Lucy's really sweet,
0:49:59 > 0:50:01you know, she's the same age as my baby sister,
0:50:01 > 0:50:03she doesn't like it here, she's not happy.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06She's here solely for the money, her family are in debt.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08And I'm sure some girls are happy here,
0:50:08 > 0:50:11you know, they do enjoy this kind of work,
0:50:11 > 0:50:13but I get the feeling it's not Lucy's scene.
0:50:15 > 0:50:16I'm not giving up, though,
0:50:16 > 0:50:19so I've asked if I can chat to Lucy outside of work.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23I feel like in Show Park I was just so restricted
0:50:23 > 0:50:26and I wasn't able to ask hardly any of the questions I really wanted to.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29So I've arranged to meet up with her today privately,
0:50:29 > 0:50:32fingers crossed that I'm able to have a decent chat with her.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42But after waiting for over an hour,
0:50:42 > 0:50:45it's clear that Lucy won't be showing up.
0:50:45 > 0:50:48I personally think
0:50:48 > 0:50:51if she comes to talk to me
0:50:51 > 0:50:53and it's honest and it's open
0:50:53 > 0:50:56about how rubbish things were for her,
0:50:56 > 0:50:59she'll be in the doghouse, she'll be in trouble.
0:50:59 > 0:51:01And she's living at Show Park,
0:51:01 > 0:51:02don't forget that, she's living there,
0:51:02 > 0:51:06because her family are 100 kilometres away.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09So she's got nowhere else to live in Prague,
0:51:09 > 0:51:13so if she rubs them up the wrong way, noises them up,
0:51:13 > 0:51:15she's homeless again.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18She could do so many amazing things, but...
0:51:18 > 0:51:20luck hasn't been on her side, so she's thinking,
0:51:20 > 0:51:23you know what, I've just got to get the money,
0:51:23 > 0:51:24I've got to pay off this debt,
0:51:24 > 0:51:27let me just go and do a couple of months in this Show Park.
0:51:28 > 0:51:30She doesn't want to be there.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32Lucy may have gotten cold feet,
0:51:32 > 0:51:35but one of the women that I've met in Prague
0:51:35 > 0:51:38is willing to talk openly, so I've come to meet Lara at home.
0:51:41 > 0:51:45- Hey, hello,- love. Hello, Stacey. - How are you, love?- Very well.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47Nice to see you again.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49I know, thank you so much for allowing me to come round.
0:51:49 > 0:51:53Nice house. So this is your home?
0:51:55 > 0:51:57This is my bedroom.
0:51:57 > 0:52:03Nice, big wardrobe for all your clothes and dresses - for work.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05And who stays here - you and...?
0:52:05 > 0:52:08Boyfriend. You and your boyfriend. How long have you been together?
0:52:08 > 0:52:12- Three years.- Hoo! OK.
0:52:12 > 0:52:13Nice.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17- This is my son's...room. - This is your son's room?- Yes.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21'Lara also lives here with her 12-year-old son.'
0:52:21 > 0:52:24And this is your son?
0:52:24 > 0:52:25Yeah.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28Does he know what you do for a living?
0:52:28 > 0:52:32- No.- No.- No. - What does he think you do?
0:52:32 > 0:52:35I work in restaurant with the bar.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37Uh-huh.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40And all the other girls that work at K5,
0:52:40 > 0:52:42all your friends, have they got kids as well?
0:52:44 > 0:52:45M-hm. Yeah.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Yeah.
0:52:47 > 0:52:52And do you think everybody keeps it a secret from their children?
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Yeah.
0:52:53 > 0:52:57Is it important that he never finds out?
0:52:57 > 0:53:02If he will be like 18, 19, I don't care, because he will be big.
0:53:02 > 0:53:06But I think he don't... be angry of this.
0:53:06 > 0:53:10And if you weren't working in K5,
0:53:10 > 0:53:14would you be able to afford this lovely house,
0:53:14 > 0:53:15or would it be a struggle?
0:53:15 > 0:53:19I think no, because it's so expensive,
0:53:19 > 0:53:23I have to stay in some very small flat, yeah.
0:53:23 > 0:53:28If you make work, maybe with kids or some office,
0:53:28 > 0:53:31it's... It's not so big money.
0:53:31 > 0:53:32Mm.
0:53:32 > 0:53:36'Lara has been in the sex industry for over a decade,
0:53:36 > 0:53:39'but now at 33 she has begun to plan
0:53:39 > 0:53:41'for a different kind of future.'
0:53:41 > 0:53:46I am looking for some work one week ago,
0:53:46 > 0:53:50so maybe I can have, for the start, two works,
0:53:50 > 0:53:53and then I finish and have the new one only.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Oh, really?! Change your job?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Yeah.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00And your boyfriend will be happy about that, or...?
0:54:00 > 0:54:03Yeah, I think he will be.
0:54:03 > 0:54:08- He don't say, but I think yes.- Yeah.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10'Having seen Lara in her,
0:54:10 > 0:54:13'you know, in a domestic environment,'
0:54:13 > 0:54:16erm, I think it definitely hammers home
0:54:16 > 0:54:20that she's just the same as everyone else in so many ways.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22You know, she's thinking about the rent,
0:54:22 > 0:54:26she's thinking that her boy needs football boots and games
0:54:26 > 0:54:29and, you know, really mundane things.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31So I'd be interested to know
0:54:31 > 0:54:34if the guys that use prostitutes when they come over here
0:54:34 > 0:54:36are watching this and thinking,
0:54:36 > 0:54:39"Actually she is just a woman, she is somebody's girlfriend,
0:54:39 > 0:54:40"she is somebody's mother."
0:54:43 > 0:54:46With the stag parties all packed up and gone,
0:54:46 > 0:54:48the streets of Prague return to normal...
0:54:48 > 0:54:51until next weekend's onslaught.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Having survived my first stag weekend, erm,
0:54:55 > 0:54:57I've got to say I've definitely learnt a lot, for sure.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59I think some of it is what I expected,
0:54:59 > 0:55:02you know, it's harmless fun, boys coming over here
0:55:02 > 0:55:05and celebrating their pal's last night of freedom.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07But there's this other side that I massively underestimated
0:55:07 > 0:55:09and I knew very little about,
0:55:09 > 0:55:11you know, the brothels - the amount of brothels.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15The amount of prostitutes, the seriousness of the pickpocketing,
0:55:15 > 0:55:18how often it happens, how frequent it is.
0:55:18 > 0:55:23And the drugs. How easy it is to pick up, often, fake drugs.
0:55:23 > 0:55:27It's very, very obvious that British stags coming over here
0:55:27 > 0:55:28is great for their economy
0:55:28 > 0:55:31and people I've spoken to are benefiting financially from them,
0:55:31 > 0:55:33including all of the girls.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35But with this increasing competition for business
0:55:35 > 0:55:39amongst all the prostitutes, all the strippers, all the lap-dancers,
0:55:39 > 0:55:43you do worry how far they're going to be forced to go
0:55:43 > 0:55:45to make sure that they're the one that gets the customer.
0:55:52 > 0:55:58'Next time, I travel to the spring-break destination of Cancun.'
0:55:58 > 0:56:01Loads of fit Americans!
0:56:01 > 0:56:03'But how much do we really know about this party paradise?'
0:56:03 > 0:56:06- Army?- Marines, there you go, there you go.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09Oh, my God, that's so strange to see on holiday.
0:56:09 > 0:56:13'I uncover the side of Mexico spring-breakers don't get to see.'
0:56:14 > 0:56:18TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH:
0:56:18 > 0:56:22The crime here is like nowhere else in the world I've ever seen.
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