Tantric Massage: What It Actually Is

What a session involves

Slow work, a great deal of it, with breathing and stillness treated as part of the massage rather than as gaps in it. The whole body is covered rather than worked in sections, and the aim is to draw the hour out instead of building steadily to an end.

It is the one massage style where an hour is genuinely short. Ninety minutes suits it far better and most practitioners will say so.

How it differs from the others

Nuru and body to body both describe contact: what touches you. Tantric describes tempo. The two axes are independent, which is why a session can be tantric and body to body at once, and why listings sometimes carry both.

Who actually offers it

Fewer companions than list it, in truth. It is a skill rather than a service, and the ones who do it properly tend to say so at length on their profiles rather than adding it to a list of thirty. Read the profile rather than the checkbox.

What it costs

Usually the standard hourly rate for the area, with the longer booking accounting for most of the difference in total.

Companions offering tantric massage are listed with rates and areas.