UK Sex Shop News

It's a little worrying about how many shops will return after the end of the coronavirus lockdowns.

One such casualty is the Birmingham city centre brach of the Private Shop on Pinfold Street. The shop has closed and now looks set to be turned into a cocktail bar.

 

Lovehoney, a UK sex toy retail company based in Bath, has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise due to its outstanding growth over the last six years

The Queen's Award recognises Lovehoney's growth in sales, which have risen from £12million to £56million since 2015.

The award allows Lovehoney to use the Queen's Award emblem in advertising and marketing campaigns and on its product packaging. It could be spotted on condoms, bondage accessories and pretty underwear.

A new shop, Lavish Love has opened in Abergavenny to a great reception on 17th April 2021.

The shop is also open online, stocked with leading sex toys, sexy lingerie and wellbeing products, offering a fast, personal and discreet service with free UK delivery on orders over £30

Owner Shane Lewis told the local council that Lavish Love will predominantly be a women's underwear store, which would not require a licence. He added that he will sell a small selection of adult toys, operating a similar model to national retailer Ann Summers. The shop will stock a wide range of sexy and good quality lingerie.

The shop details are:

Lavish Love
1 Brecon Road
Abergavenny
Monmouthshire
NP7 5UH

Tues-Sat: 10am - 6pm
Sun-Mon: closed

David Powley and Danny Miller are directors of DD Trading, a company behind the planning application to open an Eva Amour sex shop at 6 St Anne's Square, in a former butcher's. Powley said:

We are around the high end of things. We don't sell tacky items, basically if we don't like a product we don't sell it.

It's positive for Barmouth, it will be a destination shop. People will travel to come to the shop. These people will hopefully stay over and spend money elsewhere in the town.

We have three full-time and one part-time staff. I know this will expand once the shop in Barmouth opens. The shop will bring local employment.

Cllr Katie Price, mayor of Barmouth, said the plans to fill an empty shop in the town were encouraging. She said:

The application will be discussed at the next town council meeting, after which any representation will be made to Gwynedd Council if appropriate. Nobody wants an empty shop on the high street and it's encouraging that a new business wants to invest in our area.

Blackpool Council wants to create a monopoly for 1 sex shop to be allowed in the town and also it wants to ban any new lap dancing clubs, presumably on grounds of its view on morality.

Councillors are being asked to approve a new policy which would permit only one monopoly sex shop, and which would ban new lap dancing clubs.

Four existing clubs would be allowed to continue operating, but once those licences lapse for any reason they would not be renewed.

Licensing chiefs say the move better reflects Blackpool's aim to be a 'family' resort, and its support of the White Ribbon campaign against adult entertainment.

Members of the council's licensing committee are being asked to agree to reduce the number of permitted sex shops from the current two, down to one.

The policywill go before the council's licensing committee on Tuesday January 19 for consideration.