Adult Shopping in the UK

The high street doesn’t offer many choices to the adult shopper. There is of course the Ann Summers chain, or the local sex shop. Both offer middle of the road products, but leave you with little choice in a real sense. So where do you go if you have a kinky itch to scratch?

Of course there are hundreds of online adult retailers selling everything from sex toys to lingerie, PVC clothing to whips and bondage gear, right down to mechanical spanking devices and sex machines. Great if you want to make a purchase and feel you would be too embarrassed to make that purchase in person. But there’s a lot to be said for being able to pick products up and to have a good look at them, to feel there quality and usability before you make your purchase.

There are a number of adult shows in the UK, the Adults Only Show, Erotica, and Skin Two, adult industry exhibitions allow you to examine the products and to ask questions, as well as pick up freebees and free samples. However, these shows are few and far between – so what’s a consumer to do in the mean time?

Well there is a little show which takes place on the third Sunday of every month in Birmingham called the Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar. The Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar brings quality fetish and adult suppliers together under one roof and they pride them selves in laying on a very varied mix of retailers, with some of them selling very usual products – hence the name the Bizarre Bazaar.

At the Bizarre Bazaar you will find sex toys, bondage equipment including harnesses, collars, spanking utensils and clothing, Lingerie, rubber, PVC and alternative clothing, leather merchandise, electrical toys, erotic jewellery, dungeon equipment, erotic furniture, exclusive bed linen and sexy footwear including thigh high boots and sexy peep toe high heels.

For the consumers the Bizarre Bazaar offers the chance of a monthly saucy shopping trip with like-minded people. Customers are able to browse the stalls and are able to ask for advice and information from stall holders, as well as to try products on, and maybe in the case of some items, give them a little test to see how the item will perform. The stall holders are a friendly bunch who do tend to have some expertise in their particular field, whether it be whips, flogging benches, or baby doll lingerie.

Each month there is a demonstration or workshop, which includes technical and practical information about different aspects of sexual practises - kinky sex tips for the sexually outrageous. The demonstrations offer food for thought as well as light entertainment.

If you are looking for some thing new and you want to broaden your sexual horizons or if you just want to pick a few new bits, why not visit the Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar.

Suie writes for