As I’m usually all about an excellent technical massage first and foremost, I tend to go for older guys for their (assumed?) experience. That said, over the past 18 months I’ve become a big spa fan where experience and age are limited. So my independent masseur hires tend to be over 35, and with the help of this forum and the delightfully ever winding Spas in NYC thread, I go for the spa masseur of the moment.