Cruising & Darkrooms in Germany

With 120 entries, Germany accounts for almost half of the collection recorded here — more than any other country, and more than four times as much as Spain in second place. Cologne leads with twelve addresses, Frankfurt and Berlin follow with ten each, Hamburg with seven.

There is a downside to this density, which is visible on this page: 44 other addresses are permanently closed. This is more than a third of today's stock and mainly affects sex shops with a cinema area, whose business model has collapsed.

If you are planning, you will therefore find the most reliable addresses in the big cities. Clubs and bars with darkrooms persist there, while the single address in the small town is the one that is most likely to disappear.

It is also striking how evenly the tip is distributed. Between Cologne with twelve and Düsseldorf with five addresses, Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg are close together. Unlike the saunas, no single city dominates the stock here.