Rwanda: Testimony of a woman who makes a living by doing ‘body to body massage’

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‘Body to body massage’ is a type of massage that is performed in private rooms. You need this service to be physically present and both the giver and the recipient are naked.
It is unusual because no woman can accept or be happy that her husband goes for a ‘body to body massage’ because it is difficult to imagine how he can go home without having sex.

This girl who was born in Huye District in the South Province provides ‘body to body massage’ to boys and men on the last floor of a building located in Kimisagara Sector in Nyarugenge District.

When you talk to him, he says that he only studied primary school, then he immediately went to Kigali City to study hairdressing and hairdressing.

This young woman continues to say that later she was lucky enough to get a job in a ‘salon de coiffure’ but after three years she quit and started working in a sauna.

He said, “I worked in the sauna and went to massage and some clients tipped me so that I didn’t lose 10,000 Frw a day or 20,000 Frw.”
The girl continued to say that later in the sauna there was a service called ‘body to body massage’, where the girl massages the man and touches him everywhere, all naked, and she also started doing it for those who wanted it because it was very expensive and it involved money.

He confirms that this body to body massage is unique because even if the client wants to have sex, there is a fee to be paid for it.

He testifies that he can work for two or three people a day, each paying him 30,000 Frw or 25,000 Frw.

He said, “When you come and want me to do it for you, first you pay the reception (at the reception) their 6000Frw, and then they will give me 30 thousand Frw or even 25 thousand Frw, except that sometimes you can exceed it depending on how you saw it and pleased you.”

He confirms that he is paid 80 thousand Frw per month, but when the month goes well he can’t miss 500 thousand Frw he got from those who performed this massage.

He said, “The salary is low, but the most money a person gets is the tips they give you, because someone comes and gives you 10,000 Frw or 5,000 Frw, but you get a lot of money when someone comes who wants a body to body massage because there is no less than 30,000 Frw or 25,000 Frw Your unrepentant frw.”
He went on to say that some of the problems they face include being robbed by clients who have done this massage.

He said, “There are times when a person gives you a service and does anything he wants but then refuses to pay you, then because you refuse to act as your employer and leave, that is one of the problems we face and another is that people treat you as you are not and you do everything to get money. ”