Body to body massage in Amsterdam, and the room it actually needs

Where it comes from

The strokes underneath it are the Swedish vocabulary organised in Stockholm in the early nineteenth century, the same effleurage and kneading that sit under nearly every oil massage given anywhere. What the full contact version changes is the surface doing the work rather than the sequence. The format as it is recognised now took its shape in the Japanese bathhouse tradition and travelled outward from there, losing the water on the way and keeping the principle, which is that a forearm, a torso and a thigh distribute pressure more evenly across a large body than a pair of hands can.

The technique

Oil is warmed first and used generously, because friction is the enemy of the whole method. The opening is conventional hand work along the back, which sets pressure and temperature. From there the contact broadens: forearms, the length of a limb, body weight distributed rather than concentrated. Weight is the variable she controls most carefully, and on a guest carrying more of his own it is applied along the long muscles rather than over joints or the abdomen. Where a scar, a sore area or a recent injury has been named in the thread, that region is simply left out of the pattern and the session moves around it. Pace is slower than a clinical massage by a wide margin and stays there.

What to expect

She arrives in street clothes with a small bag and the first few minutes go nowhere: the overhead light off, a lamp on, the heating up, a short exchange in whichever language is easier. Her towels go down over the bed or over a duvet on the floor, whichever was agreed in the thread. She says what her session includes and where her own limits sit, in her own words, and that holds for the whole visit. Work opens face down along the back and the length of the legs, long and even, with the pressure set in the first few minutes and then left where it is. Once the work has begun, her hands or forearms stay against you through every transition. Somewhere in the second half the breathing usually drops and people stop tracking the time, which is the point of the format. It ends when the booked time ends, without hurry.

Who it suits

It suits a guest who wants full contact without logistics, anyone whose room has no shower worth planning around, and in particular anyone who has been talking himself out of booking because of his own frame. A long body that overhangs a Dutch double, a heavier build that makes a hotel bed creak, a hip that only moves one way: each of those is easier in this format than in any other, because the surface can be changed, the positions are few, and nothing depends on equipment.

Benefits

You come out of it loose rather than worked over, and warmer than you went in. The particular thing this format does that hands alone do not is spread the contact over a large area at once, which gives the body less to keep track of and tends to quieten it faster. Guests who arrived self-conscious report the same pattern: a stretch early on spent monitoring themselves, and then a point where that stops and does not come back.

At your address

Body to body massage in Amsterdam is arranged as outcall only, to a hotel room or an apartment anywhere in the centre, with arrival forty to sixty minutes after the hour is agreed. Rooms at Schiphol and the airport hotels are taken separately, with the journey time settled in writing first. Every therapist on the roster is twenty-one or over and sets her own limits at the start of the visit.

Length

Sixty minutes works and is a real booking. Ninety is the length most people settle on once they have tried both, because it leaves a margin for the room, the settling and the slow opening rather than spending the first quarter on them. Two hours fits an evening that has nothing scheduled behind it. Three hours and the eight hour block are the same work with the clock removed.

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