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Lovecare
328 Oxford Road
Reading
RG30 1AF
(the main road going west out of the town centre, at least a mile up on the right as you
go out of town)
Mon-Fri: 9:30am-7pm
Sat: 9am-7pm
Tel: 01189 5410045 |
Long established licensed shop that changed hands in 2008.
From Lovecare, August 2011: Discount
Cards
The show is now open until 7.00 Monday - Saturday.
We have recruited a party specialist to run lingerie and toy parties
at home.
Discount cards are available from the Hobgoblin and Nags head pubs...
From Lovecare, Feb 2010: Aiming
High
DVD prices are £20.00 each, three for £50.00 and £10.00 for an
exchange. We even have some videos!
There are now six islands of inventory.
Both the owner and I were new to the industry in 2008 so we've had an
interesting learning curve... we are always looking for ways to improve
our service. Our minimum desire is to be the best adult shop in the area.
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Reading |
Private Shop
108
Southampton Street
(about 200m out of town if you go from the oracle).Mon-Sat 9.30-6pm (Fri. 8pm)
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News Aug 2008: Changes
The shop asked the local council for a change of window display. This
was granted and the description: Licensed Sex Shop has been changed
to Licensed Adult Centre
From the Mystery Shopper,
June 2005:
There wasn't a name to be found on the shop. Just a
blank window with sign listing the adult stock.
DVDs are £40, £60 for 2 and £100 for 4.
I was greeted with a bit of a grunt from the otherwise friendly man
behind the counter.
Some of the shelves and products could have used a dust. A small and
rather underwhelming shop.
Undated:
The more legitimate shop of the
Reading shops (it kept to the law before everything got liberalized). The shop is quite
nice and clean now since they redid it. They have quite a good selection of magazines (not
compared to Soho obviously) and a reasonable selection of videos as well as limited
sex toys and other stuff. The videos are quite expensive at £40 (compared with the £20
generally found in London) though they do sometimes give impromptu reductions. The guy who
runs it is however pretty grumpy and not exactly an expert in customer service.
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Reading |
Devoted to Pleasure
Oxford Road |
Unlicensed lingerie store closed in 2009
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Reading |
XTC Pleasurezone
Oxford Road
RG30 1HL |
The shop ceased trading in 2010
From the Mystery Shopper,
June 2005:
DVDs were £40 and VHS titles £30. Both were offered with
a £20 exchange but it wasn't quite clear what this meant. Would I get a £20
credit towards a new film or would it cost me £20 to exchange them for
another title? Still lots of straight, gay & fetish films to choose from.
Bargain movies were priced at £20
From the owner:
We
have a licensed sex shop and sell a large selection of hardcore videos &
DVD's, currently 200+. Cannot comment on the staff but would always be
interested in hearing what others think.
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| Redcar |
The Adult Shop
5 Station Road
Redcar
TS10 1AHMon-Sat 9.30-5.15pm
Tel: 01642 474144
Email: booksandmags@btconnect.com |
From Adam:
Fully
licensed sex shop with over 300 titles on DVD plus a large range of toys and
magazines. Good prices, friendly, helpful staff. If they don't have what you
want they'll try and get it for you.
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| Redhill |
Pillow Talk
91 Brighton Road
Redhill
RH1 6PSTel: 01737 768757
On the A23 about 1/2 mile south of the town centre |
I assume it is licensed as it has a
good selection of XXX DVDs. It also has sex toys and a range of leather play wear.
After
checking it out for friendliness etc., I visited it in February with my wife. We purchased
several playwear items, as it has a small curtained cubicle for trying them on. I have
been back several times since. The staff is female and very friendly. Recently, it has
started opening on Sundays also (from 10-4 I think)
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| Reigate |
Pillowtalk
Holmesdale Road |
Closed in 2008, previously Pillowtalk, and before that, Taboo
International.
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| Rhyl |
AdultWorld 43-47 Queen Steet
Rhyl
Wales
LL18 1SD
Mon-Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat: 10am-6pm
Sun: 11am-4pm |
Reader review, April 2006:
Eager to Help
A large shop with a good deal of stock, including many magazines and DVDs.
Very friendly staff, the bloke behind the counter is eager to help. Prices
are average for sex shops. Not at all seedy. Well worth a visit.
From the
bgafd forum:
Huge
If you live in the
North Wales area and you want porn, go to the shop in Rhyl. It's the Porn
Shop Version of Blockbuster Video
It's huge and the moment you walk in there's a picture of Omar, how classy
is that, to see the Legend looking right at yer before entry, He even walked
past me on the Promenade, but seriously check out the shop, its huge and
looks great, has everything you want, even Granny Porn.. what's going on?
By the way I don't work there, its just a cool shop. I wish I did, I tried
to get a job but they guy wouldn't take me on as he only
wanted female workers which is fair enough.
Do check it out.
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| Rochdale |
SimplyPleasure.COM
102 Drake Street
Rochdale
OL16 1PQ Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm Tel 01706 658585

shop details at www.simplypleasure.com
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| Rochester |
Pillowtalk
Laker Road
Rochester Airport Industrial Estate |
Now closed
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| Romford |
Growlers Romford
Shopping Centre |
Unlicensed
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| Romford |
Night Thoughts
Liberty
Shopping Centre |
News August 2007
Posters heralding a new store have wound up the local
nutters
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| Romford |
Private Lines
Victoria Road |
Unlicensed but trying to obtain a licence.
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Rotherham |
Private Shop 3/5 Rawmarsh Hill
Parkgate
Mon-Sat 9.30-6pm (Fri. 8pm)
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Rotherham |
Pulse & Cocktails
M1 Junction 33
Canklow Meadows Industrial Estate
Rotherham
S60 2XL
Mon-Fri: 10am-8pm
Sat: 10am-6pm
Sun: 11am-5pm |
From Pulse & Cocktails, May 2007:
Europe's Largest
This flagship store in Rotherham is the largest sexy superstore in
Europe and made the BBC News upon its opening. This gigantic superstore
is made up of two exciting departments.
The first department is ‘Cocktails', which has an
amazing range of sexy clothing and lingerie of both conventional wear
and fetish wear including PVC, latex and leather. The store also boasts
the largest selection of uniforms with over 20 different sexy dressing
up outfits on display. The diversity at this store is massive, stocking
a very comprehensive range of sizes from 8-26. This store also has a
full range of wigs, shoes and a fantastic selection of hosiery.
Cocktails also has an excellent choice of naughty novelties and games as
well as an excellent range of hen and stag night products.
Pulse is where the shopping adventure really begins
and is situated on the ground floor! The sex toys department is huge
with literally thousands of toys from every corner of the globe with
many items available to touch in the 'switch on and try before you buy'
display area. This store also has an exclusive range of erotic
furniture.
• Turn off at Jctn 33, M1 (Near Meadowhall Shopping
Centre Jctn 34)
• Head towards Rotherham (A630)
• First left roundabout onto A630
• Continue for approx ¼ mile (Passing Halfords and Dunelm Mill on the
left)
• Turn left off the dual carriageway at the side of Wickes.
• Turn right at the T junction & continue for approx 100 yards
• The entrance to the car park is at the end of the road on the right.
This store has a two-acre car park so there is ample
parking for lorries and coaches.
Thanks to Tim:
Supermarket Like
In
Sheffield and Rotherham there are a couple of pretty large shops called Pulse &
Cocktails. These are quite supermarket-like in layout and atmosphere - very bright and
airy and the staff are friendly and fairly non-intrusive. The prices are a bit steep I
think (£30 for an R18 video or 2 for £50), but they do have preview facilities and an
exchange facility where you can swap any tape for £10 within (I think) 2 weeks.
They've got a good selection of magazines too, but I wasn't totally impressed by them
all being bagged up (no preview copies) even though there are signs saying that if you
want anything opened then just ask.
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Rotherham |
119 Wellgate |
Licence awarded for new shop
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