London N1

Tantric Massage in Islington

More standing appointments come from N1 than from the rest of the map combined. Islington finds a slot it likes and keeps it.

Nearest stations: Angel, Highbury & Islington, King's Cross
Our room: Nearest: Baker Street W1, Bayswater W2
Outcall: Same rate with most therapists
Hours: Every day, 10:00 — 23:00

Upper Street settling into its second sitting, side streets asleep behind Georgian shutters.

The distinctive thing about tantric massage in Islington, from where we sit, is repetition. The same Tuesday 19:00, the same therapist, week after week for months. We protect those slots once they form. If a standing booking appeals, raise it after your second visit rather than your first, once you know which therapist and which length actually suit you.

Upper Street runs late and civilised, dinner crowds at the weekend and theatre-goers threading through on their way to somewhere, while the side streets are asleep behind Georgian shutters by ten. Stand on one of them and you can hear the hum of Upper Street a block over, like a party in another room. N1 books against that grain: midweek rather than Friday, and the Tuesday and Wednesday evenings belong to this postcode more than any other. At the weekend, Islington entertains itself.

Camille, therapist — Camille · £300 / hr

Barbican is the near option from Islington: from Angel it is one stop on the Northern line to Moorgate and a five-minute walk, or a straight bus down City Road. From Highbury & Islington, allow twenty minutes door to door outside rush hour. Book a therapist based in another district and the run is longer, though rarely by much. Barely time to warm the seat.

The standing bookings develop their own etiquette. One Tuesday regular has held 19:00 for the better part of a year and once apologised, sincerely, for moving it a single week for a holiday. We told him the slot would survive the separation. It did. Though the therapist admits the Tuesday in question felt slightly wrong to her too.

Outcalls to the Georgian terraces off Upper Street work well. The staircases are narrow enough that the therapist carries the table up folded and opens it in the room, which adds two minutes and nothing else. The flats above the shops on Camden Passage are smaller. Ask us first.

Tuesday, seven o'clock, same as ever. My week has a hinge now.

Landmarks nearby: Upper Street, Camden Passage, Regent's Canal.

The address of whichever room you are booked into is given when the booking is confirmed, not before. Every entrance is shared with other businesses and none of them carry signage.

When Islington books

Tuesday and Wednesday 19:00, the standing-appointment hours.
A smaller Sunday-evening wave, usually at 20:00.
Friday and Saturday nights N1 stays out on Upper Street, and we hear nothing.

What you can book from Islington

01 Tantric massage Nobody unclenches on command. You can walk in off the Northern line absolutely knackered, lie down on a warm table with every intention of relaxing, and your shoulders will still be up round your ears twenty minutes later. That is not you being bad at this. That is just how bodies work, and it is why the length of the session matters more than anything else on this page. From £250 02 Nuru massage The gel goes into the warmer about an hour before you are due, and a session gets through the best part of a litre of it. Most of what is written about nuru in London leans mystical. The truth is bodywork plus logistics — warm gel, warm mat, a lot of laundry — and the logistics are half the craft. From £350 03 Body to body massage “So she massages me with… all of her?” A guest put it exactly that way last spring, sounding half curious and half alarmed, and it remains the shortest honest description we have — her whole body doing work that hands alone cannot, warm oil in between, and rather less mystery to it than the name suggests. From £250 04 Four hands massage Here is the arithmetic most men get wrong before they book this. They expect double pressure — twice the hands, twice the force. The pressure is ordinary. What doubles is the information: two therapists, two tempos, until the part of your brain whose whole job is predicting the next touch throws its hands up and goes quiet. That part of the brain, it turns out, was most of the noise. From £350 05 Lingam massage Every couple of weeks someone asks to book twenty minutes of lingam work on its own — skip the rest, straight to the word on the page. We decline every time, and not out of preciousness. In the tantric tradition this is not a technique you lift out of a session; it is a stage the rest of the session exists to reach. Here it lives inside a full ninety minutes or more, and the placement is the practice. From £250 06 Yoni massage A surprising share of these enquiries open with an apology. Sorry if this is an odd request, sorry if you do not really do this, sorry to bother you. It is not odd, we do, and you are not. This is quietly one of our most booked sessions — mostly women in their thirties and up — and the apologies stop at the door. From £250

Questions from Islington

Do you have a room in Islington?

Not in Islington itself. Our rooms sit in Baker Street W1, Bayswater W2, Edgware Road W2, Earl's Court SW5, Sloane Square SW3, Paddington W2 and Barbican EC2, and a therapist can also come to you in Islington.

What does an outcall to Islington cost?

With most of our therapists, the same as a session in her own room — no supplement. The outer zones and the late hours are agreed case by case before anything is confirmed, and nothing is discussed once the therapist is in the room.

How late can I book in Islington?

The last session of the day starts at 22:00. For later outcalls further out we sometimes say no, and it is about how the therapist gets home rather than the address itself.