Forty-five therapists who work body to body in Amsterdam.

What the cards cannot show is weight.

In this work the body is the instrument. Forearm, shin, back, the flat of the torso, a therapist moves her own mass across yours and controls the rate at which it arrives. Height is printed for that reason and no other. So is build. A smaller therapist works differently, not less: more leverage, more pressure carried through a narrower line of contact. A taller one covers more of you at once and returns to the hands later.

Choosing

Most people choose by photograph. That is a reasonable way to choose, provided the photograph is true. Each one shows the woman on whose profile it appears, taken with her agreement, so the height and the build beside the image describe the person in it. Languages sit there because someone will spend an hour, or a night, in a room with you, and being understood is not a small thing at four in the morning.

Forty-five is a roster large enough to leave you a real choice. Every name on it belongs to a woman of twenty-one or over. We publish nothing beyond that, because the rest of it is not a statistic, it is how a person stands in a doorway, and you will know within a minute.

If no name settles

Say the hour, the duration, and the one thing that matters: a language, a build, two therapists rather than one. The reply names the women free at that hour. Nobody arrives unnamed. The confirmation carries her name, and you read it back before anything is fixed.

Who gives body to body massage in Amsterdam on this roster

Forty-five women, every one of them twenty-one or over. Thirteen have their base in the old centre. Eleven more are based in the Jordaan, a further eleven in Oud-Zuid, and the remaining ten work out of De Pijp. That spread is part of why the arrival window holds: someone is rarely far from wherever you are staying.

Hair, and why it is listed

Thirty-one of the forty-five are brunette, twelve are blonde and two are redheads. Hair sits on every profile for the same reason languages do: people choose by it, and a card ought to answer the question before anyone has to ask it.

Choosing for the technique

In nuru and soapy, where the whole body glides, every woman on the roster works the same method, and the difference lies mostly in rhythm. In oiled body to body, where weight is felt precisely, some guests like to ask who works slowest or who leans in hardest, and the reply answers honestly from what the therapists say about their own work.

Languages on the roster

Every therapist speaks English. French is spoken by seven of them, Russian and Spanish by six each, while Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Romanian are each spoken by three. Brielle and Constance work in French and Dutch; Claire adds German to her French. If a first language would make the hour easier, name it, and the reply will list only the women who share it.

Every name, every technique

Each woman decides for herself which of the techniques she gives and where her limits sit. The profile pages say where each one's own practice leans, which helps when two names feel close.

Reading a profile

Open a card and the profile gives age, height, hair, languages and home district, a written portrait and a full set of photographs. Banks, for instance, is 168 centimetres tall, based in the Jordaan, and works in French and English. The booking button on every profile names her in the opening message, so the line starts from your choice instead of asking for one.

When she is not free

The hour you want may already be taken. The reply says so plainly and offers the nearest alternatives: the same woman later that night, or someone comparable who is free now. Nobody is swapped in without your agreement: if the woman named in the confirmation cannot come, you hear so as soon as it is known, and you either choose again or take the deposit back. The booking page explains the rest of the exchange.