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Club Church

1 review

Kerkstraat 52

Club Church is one of Amsterdam’s most popular gay cruise and fetish clubs, founded in 2008 by veteran organizer Richard Keldoulis to bring a dedicated home to the themed party scene he’d long run at the Eagle and elsewhere. Small but endlessly in...

Mister B Amsterdam

Mister B Amsterdam

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Prinsengracht 192

Mister B is a globally recognized name in gay leather and fetish culture, founded on Warmoesstraat in 1994 and now settled into a bright, open-fronted flagship on the Prinsengracht, just by the Homomonument and Westerkerk. Amsterdam’s second great...

Sauna Nieuwezijds

Sauna Nieuwezijds

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Nieuwezijds Armsteeg 95

Sauna Nieuwezijds: Amsterdam’s central gay sauna with a distinctly social sideSauna Nieuwezijds, usually known simply as Sauna NZ, is a men-focused gay sauna located at Nieuwezijds Armsteeg 95 in the historic center of Amsterdam. It sits only a fe...

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Keerweer 10

Gaytoys is Rotterdam’s dedicated gay men’s sex shop, a cozy, personally run store tucked in the city’s central shopping heart, right next door to the gay café Keerweer. Owners Harry and Piet keep it warm, welcoming, and refreshingly discreet—the k...

Eagle Amsterdam

Eagle Amsterdam

Warmoesstraat 90

Eagle Amsterdam is a true landmark of the city’s leather scene, a three-floor gay bar on Warmoesstraat with roots stretching back to the late 1970s, in a stretch of street that’s been the heart of Dutch gay leather culture since the country’s firs...

Margrietweg 21

Dunez is a men-only sauna and wellness resort set in the beautiful nature of the Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park in the south of the Netherlands. The wellness area pairs a Finnish sauna, steam bath, and whirlpool with a natural swimming po...

Nieuwendijk 26

Alfa Blue is one of Amsterdam’s oldest sex shops, a men-only gay institution that’s been quietly serving the city since 1985, just a few minutes from Central Station on Nieuwendijk. Refreshingly under the radar and unpretentious, it’s stocked with...

Bears Amsterdam

Bears Amsterdam

Sint Jacobsstraat 6

Bears Amsterdam is the city’s first dedicated bear bar, reborn in May 2025 from the ashes of The Web, a beloved fixture of Amsterdam’s cruising and fetish scene for nearly forty years. Rather than let the space disappear, its owners reimagined it,...

Kerkstraat 173

Black Body is one of Amsterdam’s best-loved gay shops, a smart, sleek two-floor store in a former post office on gay Kerkstraat, boasting one of the biggest collections of rubber clothing and toys in Europe. Much of the rubber gear is produced in-...

Cuckoo’s Nest

Nieuwezijds Kolk 6

The Cuckoo’s Nest is a neighborhood institution in the heart of Amsterdam, opened in 1984 during the golden age of leather and still going strong today under a more casual, mixed patronage of gay and bisexual men. Its main draw is the sprawling un...

Zeedijk 64

DeMask is a pioneer of exclusive fetish wear, a world-renowned latex boutique that first opened its doors on Zeedijk in 1990 under founder Steve English, with its early designs handmade in a tiny basement workshop just steps away. Since then, it’s...

Warmoesstraat 86

Dirty Dicks is one of Amsterdam’s oldest gay fetish institutions, born in 1994 when leather-scene legend Paul Wierks moved The Eagle two doors down and renamed its old address on Warmoesstraat. Darkened, sleazy in the best possible sense, and spre...

Nieuwe Vijzelstraat 2

Mail Female is a much-loved erotic boutique founded in 1988 by two women, a pioneering, female-focused address in Amsterdam’s queer scene long before ”sex-positive” was a buzzword. Bright, clean, and refreshingly free of the seedy vibe of traditi...

Warmoesstraat 71

RoB Amsterdam is a true institution of gay leather culture, founded in 1975 by Robert Meijer and still going strong on Warmoesstraat, the historic heart of the city’s leather and cruising scene. Over five decades, it has grown into perhaps the mos...

Kerkstraat 53-55 a

The Bronx is the oldest gay shop in Amsterdam, holding down its wonderfully central spot on Kerkstraat since 1976, just around the corner from Leidsestraat and steps from the popular gay nightlife at Spijker Bar and Club Church. A recent full rene...

William Higgins' le Salon

William Higgins' le Salon

Nieuwendijk 22

William Higgins’ Le Salon is one of Amsterdam’s longest-running addresses for adult entertainment, a sprawling sex shop, erotic cinema and cruising labyrinth all under one roof, right on Nieuwendijk, an extension of Kalverstraat in the heart of th...

Erotheek Schiedam

Erotheek Schiedam

Rotterdamsedijk 411-413

Erotheek Schiedam is a large adult shop and XXX cinema on the Rotterdam-Schiedam border, part well-stocked sex shop selling toys, fetish clothing, videos and magazines, part cruising venue with a busy gay play area down in the basement. It runs se...

Nieuwstraat 110

Sauna Joe is a friendly, cozy gay sauna in Kerkrade, right on the Dutch-German border and an easy hop from Aachen. Across two floors, it packs in an indoor pool, a large whirlpool, a dry sauna, a steam bath, and an infrared cabin, alongside a loun...

Rijswijkseweg 536

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Spuistraat 21

noon-2am, boys’ house (escorts) with full bar and live strip shows

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Gravendijkwal 130

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Reguliersbreestraat 4

Straight, gay, lesbian... everybody is welcome in this sex-shop/cinema. Also booths and labyrinth.

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