Prowler, which has catered for a homosexual clientele for the past 30 years, wants to open its first gays-only city centre sex shop next to New Street Station. Objectors say that granting a licence will give Birmingham an international reputation for lewdness and turn the city into a 'moral abyss of sexual depravity'.Ĭity councillor Kath Hartley said the shop would lower the tone of the area. A BID to open Birmingham's first gay and lesbian sex shop catering for fetish and bondage gear was today at the centre of a sleaze row.