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Sam Private Bridge Street Banbury
Reported closed and all signage removed in March 2010.
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Nice 'n' Naughty High Street Bangor LL57 1NP Closed in 2019 Customers are now
invited to shop online with a 10% discount (excluding sales) using the discount code BANG10 at Nice 'n' Naughty
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Bliss Adult Play Things Bingham Mall Bangor Northern Ireland BT20 5AJ No internet presence in 2011, so presumably closed
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Private Shop Doncaster Rd Barnsley S70 1TH Licensed. De-listed by May 2019.
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Pulse & Cocktails
462 Doncaster Road Stairfoot Barnsley S70 3EY
Mon-Sat: 10am-5:30pm Sun & Bank hols: closed
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Review from ETO's Mystery Shopper, August 2016: Don't look £ 10 hardcore magazines were marked sealed, do not open. DVDs were mostly £ 25, with 3 for £ 50 and 7 for £ 100 offers. Others
premium titles were £ 30. A pleasant and expansive shop. From Pulse & Cocktails, Feb 2007: DVD Heaven This newly
refurbished and good sized, one-stop shop in Barnsley offers a very relaxed shopping environment with excellent advice available from the shop manager. The store is open 6 days a week, apart from holidays.
The store has an excellent range of
sex toys, games and novelties along with a good assortment of lingerie, stockings and uniforms.
The store has a separate film department on the first floor and is DVD heaven with over 3,000 XXX DVDS.
Head towards Barnsley from the
Stairfoot roundabout, we are approximately 300-400 yards further up the road on the right hand side on the corner of Hoyle Mill Road. There is ample roadside parking around the shop |
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Private Shop Dalkeith Street Barrow-in-Furness A14 4SP Appears to have closed by December 2011.
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Simply Pleasure
21 Dalkeith Street Barrow in Furness LA14 1ST Mon-Sat: 9am-8pm Sun: 10am-4pm
Tel: 0122 9827450
Licensed
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From ETO's Mystery Shopper, July 2014: Beyond charming The manageress was beyond charming. The stock was broad and interesting.
R18 DVDs are £ 15 to £ 25. There is also a 3 for the price of 2 deal on DVDs and toys |
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The Private Shop Lower Bristol Rd. Twerton Bath BA2 3EM Licensed closed by 2018
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Erotica Tavistock Street Bedford MK40 2UK
Licensed. Closed in 2014.
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Private Shop Tavistock Street Bedford MK40 2RP Licensed. De-listed by May 2019
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Bliss Adult Play Things
Liberty Belfast 20 North Street Belfast BT1 1LA Closed at Smithfield Square West in February 2014. Now at Liberty Belfast
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From Liberty Belfast On the adult side of things our extensive range of goods (too much to list it all) includes everything from hen and stag night novelties, naughty adult gifts and games, lingerie, shoes-boots, dress
up, fetish wear, sex toys for him - her and couples.
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Gemini North Street Arcade Belfast BT1 1PB Presumably lost when the arcade was burnt down in an arson attack.
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The Gresham Bookshop
2 Gresham Street Belfast BT1 1JN News June 2007: Fined Fined for selling R18 videos without a license even though the shitty council refused to grant license
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Gresham Tapes & Video
25 Gresham Street Belfast BT1 1JL
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Miss Behavin' Unit 2, 2-8 Gresham Street Belfast BT1 1JN Unlicensed
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News November 2014: Licence refused Belfast City Council has said no to licensed sex shops on a city centre street. The committee claimed that the appropriate number of sex establishments in the Gresham Street locality remain as
nil . News September 2014: Licence Application Belfast Council moralists have in the past have refused to grant sex shop licences just because. In 2003 Miss Behavin' applied for a licence which was rejected. The
shop initiated an appeal which was escalated all the way to the UK's high court which eventually upheld the council's right to ban sex shops just because they felt like it. Now Miss Behavin' look set to apply for a licence again and early reports from
councillors is that opinions are 'divided' which looks a lot more promising than in 2003. |
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MissTique
Gresham Street Belfast BT1 1JL Unlicensed
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News November 2014: Licence refused Belfast City Council has said no to licensed sex shops on a city centre street. The committee claimed that the appropriate number of sex establishments in the Gresham Street locality remain as
nil . News October 2014: Licence Application MissTique has joined Miss Behavin' by submitting an application for a licence for a second sex shop called Misstique in the same area. |
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Mr Bliss Smithfield Square West Belfast BT1 1JE Reported closed in 2014
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Naughty but Nice Smithfield Square Belfast BT1 1JE Closed February 2014
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Perfect Pleasures North Street Belfast BT1 1NA Reported closed in 2013
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Private Smithfield Square Belfast Closed
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The Private Emporium North Street Belfast BT1 1ND Closed by 2012
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Belfast see also Newtownabbey |
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SohoBooks
31 Gresham St Belfast BT1 1JL 9:30am-9pm Tel: 028 90 333233 Previously Private Lines
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News, May 2015: Mentioned in Dispatches The shop was mentioned in the news when a shoplifting case was heard in court.
From the archive: The longest running sex shop in the city (and indeed
Ireland).
The shop is of a moderate size and nicely presented. A good range of DVD's and videos (yes, somebody is still selling them!) plus a wide variety of toys, novelties and adult mags. Helpful staff a plus as well. Well worth a visit.
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Biggleswade see also Sandy |
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Dominion of Pleasure
Short Mead Street Biggleswade SG18 0AP Company closed in 2006
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Scandals Adult Shop
4 Marion Street Birkenhead CH41 6LT Mon-Fri: 9-6.30pm Sat: 9.30-6pm Tel: 0151 666 1444 Licensed in 2004. Listing checked in December 2017.
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News May 2012: ETO Awards 2012 Scandals has been nominated for the Best Individual Store in the 2012 Erotic Trade Only Awards: From Dawn: Recent refurb Even before its recent refurbishment
making the shop at least 4 times as big, it was well worth a visit for all your sexual needs and more. The staff would order you stuff that they didn't have in and they nearly always had items in.
Since it's recent refurb, however, their stock
has become more widespread with new items arriving every day. The staff knew their regulars and would show the latest arrivals they knew we would enjoy. Their array of vibrators and anal toys was vast, along with their dvds and videos.
The staff
are great, they try out all the items and will let u try the open vibrators that are behind the counter before you buy. They make you feel welcome and follow our own belief that sex is completely natural and as a woman feel at ease going in their on my
own.
Scandals is well worth a visit |
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Adultshop Superstore Edwards St, Birmingham B1 2RX (near National Indoor Arena) Reported closed in April 2012.
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Adult World
1 Hinckley Street Birmingham B5 4EB Mon-Sat: 10am-10pm Sun: 11am-4pm Licensed
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News October 2019: License renewed The licence was renewed despite a whinge from the nighbouring Old Rep theatre complaining about people handing around.
News July 2019: Changed hands Adult
World in Hay Mills changed hands in 2013. The owners further acquired the city centre shop and sex cinema on Hinkley Street in July 2019.
From ETO's Mystery Shopper, June 2013: Perfectly Decent No longer any
reference to a sex cinema but still has lap dancing and preview booths. Most R18 DVDs are a basic £30 but have a 3 for 2 offer. There are also titles at £20 and a clearance line at £10. There was a helpful manager who made for
perfectly decent licensed store. Review from Gerry, Oct 2009: Spot On Your current comments are spot on. DVDs are expensive, cinema show is excellent. Striptease is fine and the young lady doubles up as the lap
dancer. Lap dance costs £20. Review July 2006: 'one-stop' sex central I know this review section is supposed to be about shops. How about a shop, a cinema, preview booths, a striptease (four times daily),
Oh! yes! I forgot...a private lapdance... No kidding!
As far as I know this place is a one-off! This 'shop' is simply a 'one-stop' sex central The sex shop alone is worth a visit. They must have 2000 titles available. A great range of toys and
clothing too... there were a few ladies in there and couples. As well the usual mix of guys like myself.
It has a 100 seat cinema... playing many of the latest releases. Special preview booths are there too... and I've only ever seen these in
Amsterdam. These were great. You can check out a movie before you buy it. The striptease was free, as it was in with the cost of the admittance into the cinema.. About £10 I think. Not sure about the private dance, but this was definitely
available.
The staff were very helpful and polite and asked if their help were needed, which it wasn't as they'd already done such a good display of categorizing their movies.
As I reached to pay for my DVD's... My eye was taken to a
fantastic area for all sorts of sexual enhancers... too many to mention here.. But I'm sure they'll be needed in a few years.
A one-stop sex centre in the middle of the country a stone's throw away from New Street Station... A wonderful idea in a
great location... well worth a visit... How much was that lapdance again? January 2006: Good Range Shop is quite small but with a good range of films – just a token amount of other stuff (clothes / toys etc).
Only problem is the prices - £35 per DVD. I understand the cost of the licence is £9000 but London is only a train ride away and at £20 per film you would only need to buy a few to pay for a train ticket….
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Adult World
1014 Coventry Road Hay Mills Birmingham B25 8DP Mon-Fri: 10am-9pm Sat: 10am-6pm Sun: 11am-4pm Previously Book Exchange. Listing confirmed in November 2016.
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Amsterdam XXX 119/121 Hurst Street Birmingham B5 6SE
Closed in 2015.
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Ann Summers
Bullring City Centre Birmingham B5 4BA Monday - Saturday: 10am - 8pm Sunday: 11am - 5pm From ETO's Mystery Shopper,
November 2018: Full range Nothing much seemed to be missing
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From ETO's Mystery Shopper, November 2018: Full range Nothing much seemed to be missing |
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Clone Zone
84 Hurst Street Birmingham B5 4TD Mon-Thu: 11am - 8pm Fri-Sat: 11am - 9pm Sun: 11am - 6pm Tel: 0121 666 6640 Licensed, listing checked in November 2016.
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Comment, Oct 2009: Gay The shop is now totally gay Review December 2004: Funky Crop Shop Gay oriented store. Tired looking displays. R18 DVDs £30 but on sale at £20 at time of
visit. Also features a solarium, funky crop shop, hairdresser and piercing studio. |
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The Adult Shop: Book Exchange
91 Oxford St Digbeth Birmingham B5 6DY (opposite coach station) Tel: 0121 643 1700 Licensed.
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News, May 2018: Congratulations The shop made the local news when an advertising hoarding above the shop hosted a poster congratulating the royal couple. The prominent, but miserable, local MP Jess Phillips felt that
somehow it was 'inappropriate' for a sex shop to be so close to a poster congratulating Harry and Megan. Employees at shop pointed out that they had no control over the choice of posters appearing in the advertising space.
From
a reader, Feb 2007: Wow, What a Shop What a delightful experience, well modern stylish a bit classy even! 'yeah in a sex shop '
The staff were very helpful and if there was something you are looking that they don't already
have they get on the phone there and then, to order it for you.
When I got hold of the 2 back issues of my Harmony Concepts films that same week I was 'well happy' even more so as I got them at the standard rate + discount!
ALWAYS a
genuine bargain to be had on their sale shelf too starting at £14.99 seems to be a honest shop that's stood the time. From a reader: A bright clean (unsleazy) licensed shop near city centre , with friendly helpful staff.
Stocking over 200 R18 titles (video and DVD), magazines, excellent range of toys .
I informed the shop owner of your site, and she is gonna offer a discount to future customers who mention your site. |
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Fantasy Great Barr Closed
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Leg Avenue High Street Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7JZ Looks to have closed by 2017.
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Night Trips Adult Shop
39 Horsefair Birmingham B1 1DA 0121 622 3736 Licensed shop, listing checked in November 2016.
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From ETO's Mystery Shopper, June 2013: Traditional A very traditional shop. DVDs range from £10 bargains to £40 for some fetish titles. A good manager and a good atmosphere. January 2006:
Shop looks a little drab from the outside but inside it is well laid out with a reasonable range of films grouped according to category. Doesn't stock much in the way of toys etc. I wanted to buy a couple of films but £35 each . I
asked about reduced prices such a 2 for £50 and was told no but pointed to a rack of films on offer for £20 each – unfortunately nothing took my fancy although they were all OK films (if a little old). Staff were friendly and
helpful despite not agreeing to a multi-buy deal! |
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Private Shop
45 Pinfold St City Centre Birmingham B2 4AY (just off Victoria Square) Mon-Sat 10am-6pm (Fri 8pm) Sun: 10am - 4pm
Licensed. Listing confirmed May 2019.
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From ETO's Mystery Shopper, June 2013: Clean and Tidy DVDs range from £10 to £25 with multi deals at all price levels from £15. There's an arty centrepiece to the bar, a wooden thing with a cock for a nose and a
cock for a... cock. Certainly a talking point! First rate shop. |
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Private Shop Hockley Hill Birmingham B18 5AA Closed by June 2016
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Promises Promises Dale End Birmingham City Centre B4 7LS, UK
Licensed sex shop. Closed in 2016
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Simply Pleasure Coventry Road Bordesley B10 0RX closed by 2012
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Simply Pleasure Dale End, Birmingham B4 7LS closed by 2012
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Taboo Cinema Club
90 Park Street Digbeth Birmingham B5 5JH Mon-Sat: 11am - 11pm Cinema club is located near Moor Street station. Listing checked in November 2016.
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From Taboo Cinema Club: Adult films Our facilities include 2 main cinemas showing a wide variety of adult films. Films change on Mondays and Thursdays - we offer Block Tickets which
enables you to visit as many times as you like during the week. Snacks and hot and cold drinks are available and there is a seated area for you to relax and make new friends. Our car park at the rear of the
cinema is covered by CCTV.
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Ann Summers
The Mall 48 King William Street Blackburn BB1 7DP Mon-Sat: 9:30am - 5:30pm Sun: 10:30am - 4:30pm Unlicensed
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Review from ETO's Mystery Shopper, August 2017: Impressive Attentive staff and a busy shopping atmosphere. Am accomplished and impressive store.
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Private Shop Darwen St Blackburn BB2 2BL Licensed. De-listed by May 2019.
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Simply Pleasure New Park House Preston New Road Blackburn BB2 6AE Opened in 2004. Delisted by June 2012.
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Private Shop
311 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PF Open: Mon-Sat: 9.30-6pm (Fri. 8pm) Licensed. Listing checked May 2019.
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Reader review, Feb 2008: Crammed Full of DVDs The shop was your typical corner shop type and was a long walk away from the tourist resort of Blackpool. The shop was crammed full of DVDs and magazines but was limited on toys.
The prices was reasonable for Hardcore DVDs but the deals didn't make you want to buy.
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Saints & Sinners
11-15 Foxhall Square Blackpool FY1 5BJ Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm Sun: 11am-4pm Tel: 01253 625050 Now licensed and also with a drinks licence. Listing checked in February 2018.
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News September 2020: ETO Awards: Winner The shop was nominated for Best Individual Store and SUe Judge won the Best Store Manager award.
News, June 2017: ETO Awards 2017: Winner Saints
& Sinners in Blackpool has won the award for Best Store Manager. Also finalist for Best Individual Store. News March 2016: Drinks licence Blackpool sex shop Saints & Sinners has been granted a licence
to serve alcohol on its premises. The store already has a lounge area which serves coffee, where customers can wait while their partners try on items of lingerie, and this will now also offer wine, champagne, Prosecco, and chilled beers. It is
believed to be the first adult store to be granted an alcohol licence. News June 2014: Nominated for ETO Awards The shop was nominated for Best Retailer and Most Innovative Retailer in the 2014 ETO Awards. These
are trade awards voted on by UK adult shop businesses. The shop manager was nominated for Best Store Manager. News, June 2013: ETO Awards 2013: Winner Saints & Sinners in Blackpool has won the award for Best Individual
Shop for the 2013 Erotic Trade Only (ETO) Awards News May 2012: ETO Awards 2012 Saints & Sinner has been nominated for the Best Individual Store in the 2012 Erotic Trade Only Awards: From
Informed Consent, February 2006: Community Store Fantastically warm and friendly adult shop catering for the bdsm community as well. No visit to Blackpool is complete without a visit to saints and sinners. Fetish gear for BBW's
on the hangers.
Reader Review: Saints & Sinners has to be one of the nicest, least seedy adult shops I've visited. The store is clean and bright... unless of course you decide to take a trip to the
dungeon... no it's not that bad! A really nicely fitted out basement serves as a fantastic S&M show room, while the main shop is very open and well lit (unlike some shops!). My girlfriend and I felt happy going in as a couple
& we've even been back individually, and always felt welcome! Think Ann Summers with less purple, more light and less commercial!
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Secret Desires
Unit A7 Britannia Industrial Estate Pengam Rd Blackwood Gwent NP12 3SP
Tel: 01443 875 142
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From ETO's Mystery Shopper, October 2011: Well Presented and Discreet The shop is owned and managed by Dom Productions which specialises in fetish/BDSM DVDs. So a fair amount of related material is on sale.
There were some expensive DVDs on sale for £ 40 but there were deals of 3 for 2 on gay films and there was a promotional box of £ 15 DVDs. Perhaps a little pricey, but overall, a well presented
discreet shop. From Paul New shop very friendly is in an industrial estate but this is not a problem as the shop is light and airy good range of stock which should grow with time also willing to source non stock items.
From the Shop: We have just been granted our Licence for our first shop.
The shop decor is in blue and silver low level ceiling, downlighters, spot lights, Modern shop furniture, Huge range of DVD's, Magazines, Sex
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Tickled Pink Bowes Street Blythe NE24 1BD A planned move from Whitley bay didn't work out in 2014
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