Nestled in the southernmost county of Cornwall sits the newly crowned BDSM capital of the UK.
The city of Truro, known for its unique cathedral and cobbled streets, has some very raunchy locals who have googled the term BDSM more than anywhere else in England.
In fact, with 3,074 searches each month per 10,000 people, the Cornish are keen to explore bondage, domination, sadism and masochism – we’re blushing.
These southern ladies and gents actually search for BDSM and related terms over four times as much as the national average!
While Truro is dominating the rankings, research by podcast Talking Kinky found that the Cambridgeshire city of Ely isn’t far behind.
It may look quaint perched on the riverside, but the residents of Ely are anything but reserved, with 2,839 searches per 10,000 people. With a population of just 20,000 that’s more than 5,000 searches a month.
Coming in third is Durham with 2,484 searches per 10,000 people – naughty northerners. Ripon (Yorkshire) and Chichester round out the top five kinkiest cities in the UK, both with an excess of 2,000 searches.
Unsurprisingly Hereford sits at number eight. The city has recently been named as the postcode that buys the largest dildos in the UK, so it tracks that they’re into some kinky stuff.
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Rounding out the top 10 is Chester and Canterbury with 1,307 and 1,269 searches respectively.
There’s no reason to keep your sexual preferences hush hush, because it turns out that 84% of adults have tried BDSM.
It can do wonders for your sex life if you’re open to experimenting with our How I Do It diarist Olivia, 53, embracing her spicy side later in life. She left her unhappy 31-year marriage after reconnecting with her college boyfriend and dipped her toes into the world of kink.
Rich, her boyfriend, is the dominant while she is the submissive, and among edging, safe words, and flogging, she’s having the ‘best sex of her life’.
Other cities that are keen in indulge their sadistic pleasures are Hove (1,163 searches), Norwich (1,105) and Bath (1,091).
When it comes to bringing up the rear, it’s Londoners who seem disinterested in BDSM, with only 206 searches per 10,000 people.
This is pretty surprising given Lovehoney’s recent findings, naming it the raunchiest region down south.
The clear winner in terms of amount of sex toys bought per person was east central London, so if you’re wondering why people in the likes of Islington, Camden and Westminster look especially happy, that’ll be why.
So, where does your home town measure up?
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