Why distance works against full contact
A massage given with the whole body does its finest work in the closing stretch, when the long passes have stopped feeling like separate strokes and the back has finally agreed to lie flat. That state is warm, heavy and slightly slow. It does not survive a coat, a draughty tram stop and a canal bridge in October. People who have booked this kind of work at a studio describe the same small loss: the weight they felt at the end of the hour had evaporated by the time their key turned in the lock. So when the question is proximity, the useful measure is not how many streets lie between you and a practitioner. It is how many metres separate the final stroke from your own sheets. Outcall answers that with a figure nobody can undercut. The therapist does the travelling. You stay horizontal.











