Thanks to bro folklore, movies like The Hangover, and simple observations, the association between bachelor parties and bad behavior is one that's deeply ingrained in America's cultural consciousness (yes, #notallmen, but certainly a lot of them). What we don't think of when we think of bachelor parties is prankery.

Close your eyes and imagine being in the 1%. You're constantly wearing a tuxedo, you splash peasants as you ride by them in your stagecoach, you spend your days working as the cruel overlord of a mill and, on top of all that, you can afford to shell out $10,000 to go to your banker bro's bachelor party in Kiev.

Bachelor parties! That storied rite of passage wherein dudes, horrified by the prospect of a lifetime chained to the woman that they picked, give themselves carte blanche to drink near-fatal amounts of tequila and get erections in the presence of their closest male friends. Ah, love. But times are changing in…

Enabled by low-cost airlines and social acceptance, the British bachelor party has gone transnational — and appears to be fueling sex trafficking.

An Australian stripper has pleaded not guilty to raping the best man at a bachelor party with a sex toy. Her lawyer claims that any penetration that may have occurred was... accidental. [APP via The Daily What]

Ever since Estonia joined the European Union a few years back, we've noticed there are lots more stories in the papers for us to ignore about all the economic activity, software development, new economy industries, etc. going on there. (For example: Skype, the only company that manages to make telephone conversation…