It was the risqué tattoo and piercing parlour that earned notoriety as one of the city's most outrageous shops.
For a generation of Edinburgh stoners, goths and alternative types, Whiplash Trash was their little slice of Amsterdam's red light district right here in the capital, selling everything from Bob Marley-themed smoking implements, tobacco tins and rolling papers to latex lingerie, sex toys and bondage gear.
As purveyors of the "weird and wonderful", the saucy shop on Cockburn Street was not your average city centre establishment and it certainly carved itself a niche in the market in that respect.
