Regulation

London is very possibly the world capital for rubber fetish, and Regulation remains the city's top commercial rubber enterprise, with an extensive selection of off-the-peg rubber gear — full body wear including hoods, bondage equipment etc — plus waders, wellies, gas masks, toys, electrodes, jocks, lubes etc. Also produces high-quality made-to-measure sex gear for those inclined, and there are ranges of both neoprene and leather. In November 2016 Regulation became London's first outlet for Barcelona-based sexy-sporty-wear specialists Boxer. In December 2018, owing to redevelopment plans for the building they'd occupied since 1991, Regulation moved from just north of Islington Green to a two-floor premises in gay-convenient Soho, a minute from Old Compton St. The shop front window is clear glass (rather than frosted), with Westminster Council rules dictating that anything overtly pervy-sexy must hang in the (generously sized) basement. The intimate ground-floor space features non-controversial items such as t-shirts. The one downer is that the workshop no longer shares the premises with the shop; it (and the offices) are now housed in a large warehouse miles away in Walthamstow (north-east London). Customers are instructed to drop off personal items (for repair or for replication in rubber) to the Soho store, where on Monday mornings they are sent to Walthamstow. Walthamstow-to-Soho deliveries happen three times weekly.