Adelaide is a mixed bag of students, tourists and office workers, many of whom are looking for NSA sex and casual encounters.
According to Yellow Pages listings, Adelaide has the highest number of sex shops per capita in the whole of Australia; that’s a lot of overworked vibrators.
The problem is how and where to find these frustrated women for a hookup. With so many bars, clubs and pubs, it can be a minefield working out where to spend your time. We’ve put together a list of some of the best ways to find no-strings sex in Adelaide (and other fruitful hookups around South Australia).
Adelaide Hookups: What Are The Women Like In SA?
With over 1.3 million people living in Adelaide, finding a casual date shouldn’t be that hard.
Right?!
Many blokes are happy enough to hook up the traditional way: in a bar. However, it can be hit-and-miss at the best of times.
Women in Adelaide are probably more reserved and conservative compared to those in bigger cities like Sydney or Melbourne. If you’re new to the city, the girls can seem a little… cliquey, uptight.
This doesn’t mean they’re uninterested, but rather they prefer a more subtle, genuine approach.
Flashy pickup lines or overt shagging invitation might not be as effective here. Adelaide’s social circles are smaller and more tight-knit, so reputation and “social proof” are a good way to increase your bed-body count fast. 😉
Popular Adelaide Pick Up Bars & Clubs
Let’s start with some good bars to find a one-night stand, beyond busting your balls in the pokies of the outer city pubs
Please note: While these venues are great for hooking up, they are not marketed (or intended) as ‘no strings sex’ venues. Duh. If hooking up is your intention, it’s best to keep that to yourself and not stroll in announcing your intentions to the bar staff.
“Gather round Sheilas, the lunch box has landed…” 🙈
Maybe Mae
15 Peel St, Adelaide SA 5000
Peel Street is always a good option for trying your luck around Adelaide, and the vibe doesn’t get much better than Maybe Mae’s.
This intimate cocktail bar is pretty cozy and has a reputation for attracting hot single girls. It’s got a 1950s retro vibe and can get very crowded at the weekend. Open until 2am on the weekends, it’s the kind of place you can settle in for the evening. Drinks are reasonably priced (by CBD standards) and range from cocktails to classic beer.
Sugar Nightclub
274 Rundle St, Adelaide SA 5000
https://www.facebook.com/sugar.adl
This upmarket nightclub is very much a cougar magnet and you will find the average age is more 30s and 40s than other student hotspots.
Offering more than a regular club you can also find an art gallery, restaurant and pool tables on site. The music is thumping and its difficult to get a conversation going on the dancefloor. Open from Wednesday to Sunday between 9pmn and 4am, it’s a great spot for picking up older ladies.
Mother Vine
22-26 Vardon Ave, Adelaide SA 5000
https://www.mothervine.com.au/
Mother Vine is a trendy but unpretentious wine bar. The staff are really friendly and keep the atmosphere light. You can taste and learn about the wines without any snobbery. The reason we mention it, beyond the wine, is because it has become a popular haunt for single ladies and for the start of hen parties.
Open from 3pm every day, the bar is a good option for mingling in the afternoon or early evening.
The Highway
290 Anzac Hwy, Plympton SA 5038
https://www.thehighway.com.au/
A short bus ride outside of the CBD, The Highway is a firm favourite amongst the city’s locals and offers a great selection of beers, sports and gaming. The girls here are locals and are keen on having a good time. It’s more modern and classy than it sounds and has won several national awards. There is live music and good DJs at the weekend, which can get a bit busy.
The Wheatsheaf Hotel
39 George St, Thebarton SA 5031
https://wheatsheafhotel.com.au/
One of the most popular bars in Adelaide, the Wheatsheaf Hotel won’t serve fancy cocktails, but you can sample good craft beers, excellent whiskies and some special wines. A true locals’ joint, the Wheatsheaf has good live entertainment and always attracts an interesting mix of potential casual dates.
Electric Circus
17 Crippen Pl, Adelaide SA 5000
Known for its international DJs, this modern, urban themed nightclub is a popular spot for ladies who are looking for a wild night out. Open Fridays and Saturdays from 10pm to 5am, it’s always a late one when you head to the Electric Circus. The door staff ensure that the standards inside are high and you will find a range of 20-40s just looking to max out the fun.
Dating Sites For Casual Encounters In Adelaide
If you don’t fancy your chances of chatting up a lady, you could always cut to the chase and head straight to a hookup dating app. Be warned that there are some professional working girls who may try to fox you into casual sex you have to pay for.
What are the benefits of using classified sites and dating sites instead of just heading to the bar to try and score a one-night stand?
Well…
Let’s face it, the odds of success in a crowded hangout spot are unlikely to venture above 50/50 — even if you’ve got the looks to back up the talk.
Unless you’re a woman, of course, in which case the whole of South Australia is your oyster.
Adult Matchmaker
Adult Matchmaker is one of Australia’s largest community of online daters and has 3 million registered users. Unlike many hookup sites, these members are pretty active, and you can get around 50,000 users online daily. That’s one big bar to people watch at, and all from the comfort of your own home.
It does offer women a safe way to meet blokes, and because users are verified, it makes hitting up a potential date far more accessible than using Locanto or some random Facebook group.
Members all have to choose what they are interested in from:
- Erotic Chat/email
- Friendship
- A relationship
- Something discreet
- Something kinky
- Casual encounters
- A Dom/sub relationship
This means finding someone who is after the same deal as you is easy, and you won’t get caught out with a Sheila looking for a commitment on the first date.
Red Hot Pie
Best known for its association with the swinging community, Red Hot Pie has a registered user database of more than 3 million people. Only around 5,000 of these seem to log in every day, but new users come and go very regularly.
The site has a comprehensive community of chat rooms, informal events and forums. Sex parties in the Adelaide area are advertised regularly.
The male/female ratio is okay at 70:30, and paid membership does improve a bloke’s chances of getting a good match. There’s no escaping that the number one demographic finding success on this app is swingers. Adelaide has a crap ton of them.
If you’re happy to root somebody’s wife, you could be in business.
Adult Friend Finder
Adult Friend Finder is one of the best options for hooking up in Adelaide (and anywhere in Australia). Though you can register for free, membership is the only way to make the most of what’s on offer.
This is a great option for anyone committed to serial ‘casual’ dating. The fees of around $30 per month can bring a hookup in next to no time, as long as you put the effort in. And successfully dodge the many escorts, freaks and weirdos.
(Unless that’s what you’re looking for…)
AFF also has a separate webcam community, which occasionally showcases Aussie cam stars. Not many of these will be from Adelaide, but you never know!
SDC
SDC is a global meeting place for kinks and swingers. While the members come from all over the world, there’s a decent handful of listings from Adelaide and the surrounding suburbs.
We’d only recommend SDC if you split your time between Adelaide and travels overseas. If that’s the case, it acts as a dirty little handbook of potential NSA fun.
Crawling The Classifieds For No Strings Sex
Using the classifieds is a good way to cut to the chase. It weeds out the time wasters and gets down to the nitty gritty unglamorous business of “Alright, Sheilas, which of you is down to fuck?”
Locanto SA
http://adelaide.locanto.com.au/Casual-Encounters/207/
Specialising in no-strings sex in Adelaide and across Australia, Locanto is a classifieds site that allows you to filter by city as well as personal search terms. Plenty of ladies seek men as well as couples, TS and bi men.
Locanto is one of the last survivors of the sex-trafficking clampdown that saw several major sites like Craigslist, Gumtree and Backpage hit the bricks with their casual encounters offerings.
DoubleList
https://doublelist.com/city/adelaide
DoubleList is one of several adult classified sites to emerge in the aftermath of Craigslist and Backpage shutting up shop.
While the site has decent traction in Sydney and Melbourne, the Adelaide listings are kinda lukewarm at best. A few sex ads here and there, and a lot of escorts masquerading as horny nymphos.
BonePage
Who needs BackPage when you can have… BonePage?
This site conveniently divides its personals between “Adult” and “Dating“.
At the time of writing there are 401 active ads in the Dating section, with most of them in the Women Seeking Men (W4M) category. Hmm…
Reddit (/r/R4adelaide)
https://www.reddit.com/r/R4adelaide
Most Aussies probably don’t associate Reddit with pickup potential, but we’ve seen it happen. Admittedly this board is mainly dominated by swingers, hotwives and cucks looking to get down to business somewhere in SA.
If you’re a raging bull, you could do some serious damage on R4Adelaide.
Reddit (/r/Adelaidedowntofuck)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adelaidedowntofuck
And likewise.
Down to fuck? Share your primal urges on Reddit.
Adelaide Hookers and Whores
Finally, we have the punters who are happy to pay.
Adelaide has some of the strictest rules in Australia when it comes to sex work. By that we mean: it’s banned.
As a result, the Adelaide Sex Scene is one of the most vanilla we’ve covered here on Red Light Australia.
In other cities like Sydney and Melbourne you can walk straight in to a main street brothel and nobody’s going to bat an eyelid — especially not the police. Things don’t work like that in SA.
Just in case you’re feeling the itch to hookup with a hooker, be aware that the local government has invested heavily in cracking down on street prostitution. And while it still runs rampant in red light hot spots like Hanson Street (and occasionally Hindley), we can’t imagine why anybody would take the risk of picking up sex workers around the CBD.
Especially when there’s this thing called the Internet, and a bunch of sites (like those above) where you can get your kicks without ending up in the slammer.