The Reading Room

The Secure Seduction: Attachment, desire and knowing your own heart.

The world has never been louder. So many voices tell you how to be, what to say, how to look and even how to feel, to the extent that your own voic...

The Rope and the Page

Bondage, power exchange, and the eroticism of restraint Rope, after all, is just punctuation; it's the sentence of trust around it that matters. BD...

Two lingerie icons. One limited-edition collection.

It is our absolute pleasure to launch our new collaboration with M&S, a collection designed to empower and delight, celebrating the majesty of ...

Reader, Dress the Part...

Lingerie, disguise, and desire in literature Many of us know and love the power of a good book, and the inspiration it can create. The appetite for...

Puberty: The original gaslight?

Know your body, learn your ways, trust your gut. We so often hear the phrases ‘trust your gut’, ‘gut instinct’ and the importance of this, especia...

What makes something Iconic?

25 years of Pioneering Pleasure, courtesy of Coco de Mer. There is always an air of excitement in London when Fashion Week beckons - new names to w...

A Beautiful Mind

Nourishing your pleasurable curiosities with The Salons We exist to shine a light on the life-changing power of female sensuality, and want our Hom...

The Glossary of Pleasure

Desire has a vocabulary of its own, and half the fun of exploring it is learning the words for what you may have felt, but never quite named. Given...

Reactive Desire: The Allure of Planning Ahead

Waiting for the Spark? You May Just Need to Light It Yourself There is a moment - possibly more than just one - when you realise the body and desir...

Suppressing Pleasure: the quiet disappearance of desire

“Not tonight, I’ve got a terrible headache...” We’re all familiar with the many obstacles that can get in the way of intimacy, some genuine, some ...

Elysian

It is such a pleasure to introduce our new AW26 Collection: Elysian. Elysian: adj; Blissful, delightful. Usually relating to a divine, peaceful, o...

The Joy of Sex

Pleasure, science, vulnerability - The ultimate odyssey: the importance of knowing yourself. Fifty-four years ago, Alex Comfort published ‘The Joy ...