SM: So would you recommend women trying to set up rules for bachelor parties?
DB: I think it’s worth discussing and letting him know what you feel is appropriate and is not. Will he go and play by the rules? Hopefully, but at least he knows what you’re expecting.

SM: Tell us something women wouldn’t expect to hear about bachelor parties.
DB: The real bonding of it. There is a chance to really relax and there’s a lot of male bonding going on. It may not look like female bonding, may not be as emotive, but I was shocked by the amount of guys just talking and hanging out and getting some unmitigated time. As there are less and less opportunities for guys to bond, the ones they have become more important and more intense.

SM: What’s the most outrageous bachelor party story you heard while writing this book?
DB: [Laughs] My favorite is an Australian bachelor party. It was a group of guys that played rugby together. For the bachelor party, it was a day-long event and they did something called pub golf. They went to 18 different pubs in Sydney. So, by 6 p.m., the bachelor was essentially passed out – and in Australia pranks are a big deal. One of the guys was a doctor at a nearby hospital and so they jokingly said ‘why don’t we go and get a cast put on his arm and tell him he broke his arm.’ But at this point they’re all really fucked up. On the way there, they think ‘fuck it, let’s tell him he broke his leg and put him in a cast from his waist to his ankles,’ three days before the wedding. And when he woke up, they told him that he’d fallen down and broken his leg. So he goes through his wedding on crutches and in a cast and goes on his honeymoon in Fiji for 10 days in a cast, all the time thinking he’s broken his leg and they don’t tell him until he comes back.