Soapy Massage in London: What to Expect

Soapy massage came to London from Bangkok, where it is an institution with its own architecture. What arrived here kept the name and lost most of the format, which is why booking one in London can be a surprise in either direction.

What it is

A soapy massage is body to body, performed with soap and water rather than oil or gel, usually on an inflatable mattress or in a walk-in shower area. She soaps you both thoroughly and uses her whole body to slide against you.

The washing is genuinely part of it rather than a preamble, which is the thing that most distinguishes it from the other body to body styles.

Bangkok against London

Worth being clear about, because expectations built from what people have read do not survive contact with the London version.

In Bangkok a soapy massage happens in a purpose-built establishment: a large tiled room, an air mattress, a proper bath. In London it happens in a flat with a decent bathroom. Same technique, considerably less theatre.

Anyone advertising a London soapy massage in the Bangkok format is advertising something that essentially does not exist here.

Soapy, nuru and b2b

Three versions of the same idea, distinguished by what is between you:

• Soapy: soap and water. Wet, warm, and it doubles as getting clean.
• Nuru: nori gel on a mat. The most slippery and the most specific.
• B2B: oil, on a table. The most widely available.

Soapy sits closest to nuru in feel and closest to b2b in availability, which is a reasonable summary of why people book it.

What it costs

Usually £40 to £70 as an extra, similar to b2b and well below nuru, since it needs soap and a bathroom rather than gel and a mat.

It is almost always incall for the obvious reason. A hotel bathroom is rarely the right shape and hotels take a dim view of the water.

Practical notes

• It gets everywhere. Ask whether her place is set up for it rather than assuming a normal bathroom will do.
• Say if you dislike being cold. The transition out of warm water is the part people complain about, and it is easily managed if mentioned.
• Do not book it in thirty minutes. The washing takes as long as it takes.

Where it is offered

Thinly, and mostly by escorts who already offer nuru, since those are the flats set up for water and mess. Queensway and the surrounding incall belt carry most of it.

Browse the nuru listings and the erotic massage listings, and ask directly, because soapy is offered far more often than it is advertised.

The short version

Body to body with soap and water, incall, cheaper than nuru, and nothing like the Bangkok version whatever a listing suggests. Thai massage in London covers the other import that arrived here with its meaning altered.