Guides · Amsterdam · 4
Guides, for the guest who would rather read than ask
Longer pieces written to be read before anything is sent. Each one takes a single part of a booking apart and says plainly how it goes, so that the thread itself can stay short.
- What sensual means in a massage booking, explained calmlySensual is a word everyone in this trade uses and almost nobody defines, which leaves a guest guessing at exactly the moment he would rather not guess. This guide sets out what it stands for as a booking term here, and what it deliberately does not stand for.2026-07-22
- A quiet booking from first message to goodbye, for guests who prefer few wordsA booking here takes about forty words and two replies, and for a guest who would rather not talk that is most of the appeal. This walks the whole arrangement in order, from the message you have not sent yet to the door closing behind her.2026-08-05
- Silence, music or conversation: telling her how you like the roomA room can run in one of three registers, and the one you get by default is whichever the two of you drift into during the first ten minutes. Saying which you want costs a line in the thread and removes the drifting entirely.2026-08-19
- Crowd fatigue in Amsterdam: a gentle guide to a calmer tripAmsterdam is small, walkable and considerably more tiring than it looks, and by the third day a certain kind of visitor has run out of appetite for being among people. This is a guide to noticing that early and arranging the rest of the trip around it.2026-09-02