O/T UK porn shop question

[Tittywobbler]

Why is it that only a few sex shops are licensed to sell R18s while i know many other non-licensed sex shops that have been openly selling non-R18 hardcore for years and the authorities don't seem to mind ? Could they theoretically get busted.

The licensed R18 shops have to be subject to all sorts of rules and inspections from the autorities. But the other shops the authorities don't seem to mind about. Mind you, they seem to stay clear of the more extreme forms of sex such as BDSM, bestiality and shit play.

[joe king]

r18 = sexshop
if sell mainly non r18 video items(e.g. vibrators) then not considered a sexshop

[magoo]

Your right. The non R18 shops could in theory get busted. However those lovely boys in blue have eased off lately and are quite rightly concentrating thier efforts on the real problem of child porn. I know that the local council for Soho(Westmister?) recently said they were fighting a losing battle on trying to shut down the unlicensed shops. The shops just spring up a few doors away as soon as thhe council shuts them down.

As for R18 shops. They are nearly all owned by one man i.e. Dinky Davey the millionairre who owns that waste of ink known as The Sport.

BTW Has anyone managed to get off DS mailing list? I have been trying for 12 years and even moved house but still I recieve the usual Dave Shite marked "urgent" and bearing the usual Romford pre paid frank. Come on Tony and George lets bomb Romford...thats the axis of evil....and Bourne Road in Bexley, and the other DS mail drop in London E14 the name of the street escapes me but I think its Wood Lane or something.

[magoo]

A man of few words is our Joe. And yet he still puzzles me.

[Elvis Liberace]

Yes, I got off a DS mailing list.
I changed my name and nationality, had extensive plastic surgery and a sex-change, bought an awful lot of make-up, and went to live on the Moon in an old double-decker bus.
Damn- now they'll have tracked me down......
Curses !!!!

[magoo]

You know that bus on the moon story. Well a certain porn producer was behind that. Own up mister.

[Lizard]

I re-directed all my porn flyers to my local GP,s,surgery, forget all that shite about an apple a day!the place is jumpin, no wonder I can never get an appointment.

[vila]

I don't mind being on their mailing list. I've taken their special offer brochures into my local shop and got jolly good value for money, paricularly if I bargain a bit as well. Three recent release DVDs for ?42 for instance (all original boxed items, of course)- compare that with YC's prices (with all due respect to this site's most noble sponsors).