Massages in Varkala

Before getting any further, i have to explain a little something about Indians i met so far in India. They are very sensitive! Not in a bad way, just that they take what you say very seriously. Which means that i never voiced any complaint. It would just make them sad really, so no reason to try explaining what was wrong especially with their poor understanding of English.


My own massages

I went to a place that was out of the most touristy area and chose the Rejuvenation massage that was described as a full body massage using oil. First of all, the massage table had no sheet, Ok. Second, as soon as I walked in, the woman ask me to strip down. Usually, the therapist leaves you alone 2 minutes to get undressed and slide under the sheet but, OK. She put some kind of diaper to try to hide my genitals. It has a rope that ties on the lower back with a long piece of material hanging down in between your legs. They go behind you and get the piece of material to go between your legs and on your bum’s crack. She was gentle and it wasn’t pulled too tight. I am sitting on a chair for 15 minutes while she massaged my head while talking to me. Then another woman comes in and they start massaging the rest of the body. Hot oil is poured from my toes to my neck. The amount is excessive but it smells good and the sensation is really good. First place they started massaging is the chest and they went right to the breasts. They did circular massages followed by the up and down motion from the shoulders to the waist being sure NOT to avoid the breasts. It lasted a good 5 minutes! They moved to the arms and legs before I got to turn over. I ended up being legs apart for a good part of the massage and I don’t feel that the diaper helped very much in hiding anything. Their moves are always from one end to the other and it felt more like a rubdown than a massage. At the end of the massage, they told me to relax 5 minutes before the shower. Hmmm, they also started talking and laughing while my legs are still apart, how i am supposed to relax? It took me about 40 minutes to wash most of the oil. I forgot my ears though! Since i was unsatisfied with the experience, i decided to go someplace else and be more verbal about my needs.

A little difficult with the limited English of the therapist. The girl who was to massage me, had her boss explain to her how to do the type of massage i wanted. The amount of oil was just enough but she obviously didn’t feel comfortable with what she was doing. I would probably compare her moves to a crab motion, pinching the skin instead of massaging. If i add to that the fact that the rooms are separated by a thin wall made of palmtree branches, that we can perfectly hear a guy pee on the other side of the wall and that the boss, a man, comes in to check if I like the massage every 10 minutes, well, it is not a relaxing moment! Let’s give it another try.

There is a place recommended by the Lonely Planet guide book, it has to be good! Same thing than the last girl, it will be her first time doing the type of massage. She demonstrated what she can do on my shoulders and i thought ‘’Not bad’’!!! I made the mistake to say that i liked it hard! She started massaging my arms and it was perfect. The problem arose after 10 minutes. Her fingers are dead already so her solution to keep the hard part in the massage, was to use her knuckles. Again OK when it is applied on a muscle, not OK when she passes too many times at the same spot and especially not OK when she does it on my rib cage. I gasped when it happened. I tried to explain in simple terms what was wrong but she just didn’t get it for too long. She did tone it down while doing the belly part but i felt like she was making sure that the towel covering my genitals was displaced. There was also a weird moment while i was exposing my back to the mistreatment. She somehow made a move allowing my but crack to be exposed. She might have been looking at the whiteness of the whole thing and the contrast it gace to the pinkinsh color of my asshole!!! I spent the rest of the time concentrating to stop thinking about the pain. At the beginning, i had asked to avoid the face and the head but when I felt like getting up and leave from the pain, i tried to get the face and the head done as well. I thought she could not mess it up since they do it all the time. She smiled and i understood that she would do it ... but only after 60 minutes of body massage, ‘’No money!’’ she said. Crap, could not get out of that one! The last move of the massage consisted in the massaging of the chest. She placed herself at my head and tried to reach to my waist about 10 times. Each time, i got her full breasts stamped to my face, to a point that i had to stop breathing for few seconds. The facial was great but it was overshadowed by the bruises showing the next morning! She was very happy to tell me that i got 30 minutes extra treatment and that i should tell my friends to come see her. No more massages in India!

Other’s massages

Baldur got a massage at the same time as i did at the place with the very thin walls. I could actually hear his skin being rubbed and at some point the table was squeaking!!! He was being massaged by a guy of course! He had to be naked as well and at some point the guy touched him on the arm to ask him to replace his penis so that he could massage the rest of the thigh. A special Moment. The massage guy didn’t speak very much English but Baldur had asked his boss to get a hard massage so he would stop once in a while, look into Baldur’s eyes and ask with a smile on his face: “ok, is it hard?”...which Baldur felt awkward laying there on his penis.

Daniel’s experience was somewhat better since he had been warned of the basics by Baldur. He still found it a bit weird to be sitting naked on the edge of the table facing the therapist who started rubbing him from shoulders to thighs. It always bring some sort of sensation when somebody you don’t know rubs the inner thighs.

Jenna and Nicky are friends since primary school. They had to strip in the same room and received their head massage sitting down facing each other. The girls were trying to keep their eyes closed but they burst out laughing when the women started massaging their breasts in circular motions. It is a situation where you feel a bit uncomfortable even if you are very good friends. When came the time for the final shower, they went back to their room, they thought it was enough sharing for the day.

Billy was lucky, he got the same type of cloth tied to his hips than i did for my first massage. However, when the guy pulled the long piece of material in between his legs, he yanked it back and it ended up being a bit tight and revealing. At some point, the therapist asked him to lay on his front with his legs spread open as well as his arms. He got numbed hands from that position.