BDSM in Manchester

21 Nov 2008, 4:38 PM GMT

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Manchester listings
- Fetish & BDSM, shops & events

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Clubs Guide
- big or small, Fetish or BDSM

Shops Guide
- short reviews of local places selling BDSM or Fetish gear

Visitors Guide
- information for visitors to Manchester

Web Board & Chatroom
- IC's discussion forums for BDSM people in the area

Events

Club Lash
- the North's biggest BDSM/Fetish night

The Manchester Munch
- the longest running UK munch

Manchester Shops

The Manchester listings page includes details of several more shops not mentioned here, and the interactive Manchester Map shows where things are. Please confirm details with the shops themselves before making a journey.

Rob, Manchester is the northmost outpost of the famous Amsterdam-based supplier. Now at 17 China Lane, near Piccadilly Station. A small shop, but crammed full of leather and bondage gear, and various insertables.

Vintage to Fetish in Affleck's Palace (52 Church Street, north of Piccadilly Gardens) has a good selection of PVC, Rubber, Chain Mail clothing, corsets, but in limited sizes. Affleck's has a lot of other alternative shops too, aimed at the "ordinary" club, student, goth, rock and body modification scenes. For example, Affleck's is a place you can buy Wildcat body jewellery over the counter.

Helen Berlin is at 107a Oldham St, M4 1LW (parallel to Tib Street), and accepts gently used items on a commission basis. They stock a range of new and slightly used: PVC, rubber, leather, harnesses, goth, alternative, club wear, BDSM equipment and accessories.

Round the corner from Helen Berlin, is Nua Lifestyle at 49 Tib Street, M4 1LS. Nua is primarily aimed at women, and sells a basic range of cuffs, floggers etc, some BDSM books and artwork, and lots and lots of female-orientated insertables...

The Manchester branch of Clone Zone is at 36-38 Sackville Street, and has a small section of rubber and leather bondage gear, and a variety of gay SM magazines (plus some het/pan fetish ones like Skin Two.) Sackville Street is in the heart of the Gay Village, and the shop sometimes flies both the Rainbow and Leather Pride flags above its entrance.

Manchester now also has a branch of Agent Provocateur at 81 King Street Manchester. Agent Provocateur presents itself as a high class lingerie boutique, with an emphasis on retro items like seemed stockings, but also has strong links to the fetish fashion world.

(Manchester also has its share of vanilla sex-shops. In the city centre, they're mostly in the area of Tib Street not far from Nua, which is listed above.)