London
London is a city in the south of England. It is the capital city of the United Kingdom, and the heart of the city occupies a site used by the Romans 2000 years ago. London is the largest city in the United Kingdom, and was once the capital of a Global Empire. The city has spread and encompassed many diverse areas which still retain some degree of their own separate identity within the conurbation.
Judicial London
London is the home to senior Law Courts of the Legal system of England and Wales. The Royal Courts of Justice (The High Court), The Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey) and the two Houses of Parliemnt. It was also the home of many famous prisons, such as the Tower of London, the Fleet, the Clink, Newgate, and Bridewell, the last being at one time a popular place to see women prisoners being whipped.
Modern London also contains many modern prisons, Brixton, Wormwood Scrubs, Pentonville, Holloway and Wandsworth. During the final years of corporal punishment in British Prisons, Wandsworth Prison was the store of all the cats and birches used in the prison system, which had to be sent out from Wandsworth when required.
Spanking in London
As a thriving metropolitan area, London is home to a large number of clubs and shops catering to the spanking and BDSM communities, a number of which are sited in the Soho district of the City. A famous London BDSM club is Torture Garden. Northern Spanking also has activities in London. Other London spanking clubs are ClubCP (UK's largest gay spanking club), Moonglow Spanking Club, OTK UK Spanking Club, and Spank These Girls (Spanking & Champagne Party).
Soho is a famous central London district long known to both the general adult and gay scene. Once the site of many seedy and down-market erotic businesses the area was energised when it became the centre of the London gay community. Although it still contains many strip-clubs and shops selling porn it has seen the opening of a number of modern adult shops selling sex toys and BDSM equipment. It is also the site for more than thirty years of the spanking 'bookshop', Janus , selling spanking magazines, vintage VHS and DVDs.
The website LondonFetishScene hosts a BDSM wiki named Wipipedia.
There is some new info at http://clubcp.blogspot.com/ about closings and such that you might wish to follow!
Examples of spanking artists and spanking authors living in London include:
Examples of spanking actresses living in London include:
See also
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:London ]
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