The most discreet of the city's sex shops in terms of location, Amantis has a sunny feel and seems rather like a small-town shop. Albeit a small-town shop filled with condoms,...

It's sleek. It's black. It's red. Bangalá is the latest addition to the Lavapiés scene and promises to outdo its rivals with fetisho-licious nights such as Night of Tongues or...

There are books and videos in English here, and members of staff are friendly and helpful. Browsing is encouraged and you can linger over some of the erotica at the in-store café.

The grubby upstairs bar is a hit with cocky latino rent boys and their older prospective patrons and plays host to some of the best cabaret shows in town. Downstairs things...

By day a quiet, mixed haven to duck into and catch your breath: curl up with a book and sample one of the teas. After sundown, sip a cocktail, sink into a deep sofa and admire...

Madrid's original gay café is a sedate place where the lace curtains, 19th-century chandeliers and winding wooden staircase lend themselves nicely to a cosy destination for...

A romantic and popular stop, with friendly service and screens playing chill-out videos. It gets chock-full at weekends with an amiable and mixed crowd, who are generally on...

Bright, shiny and well organised, City Sex Store is a veritable supermarket of porn, with merchandise spread out over two floors.

It's red, it's urban, it's aspirational. Colby Urban is the flagship of a string of cool eateries and chilled-out cafés with a concept. We're not sure what the concept is, but...

Cool was always too stylish to be dominated by the straight crowd. And so it has come to pass that it now has a mainly gay following. Once you get beyond the stainless steel...

The friendly guys at this sloppy and sweaty club got tired of trying to enforce the dress code so now it's a self-styled 'nudist bar', except on Saturdays when it's Underwear...

A fun, sleazy cruising club that puts the 'laid' into 'laid-back'. Upstairs there's a quieter pub-like area, and a diminutive porn cinema; downstairs there's a dancefloor and a...

This den of cool is located at a strategic crosssroads, with bigger-than-average cocktails that make up for the aloof staff. Watch the real world stroll by outside or gaze at...

The flyers let you know what you're in for - an elegant figure reclines against a backdrop of flock wallpaper in a juxtaposition of the übertrendy and the super-cheesy. This...