Glossary

Tantra massage Amsterdam, the words behind a slow session

Eighteen words that come up between a first message and the long middle of a session, from ritual and the ninety-minute minimum to the deposit, each given its own page and the sense this practice lends it.

  • Outcall

    In an outcall the journey belongs to the therapist and the stillness to the client, so a slow session can end in the very room where it began.

  • Overnight

    The overnight gives a single client eight hours with one therapist at a set price, long enough for a slow session to give way to rest.

  • Duration ladder

    The duration ladder is the house rate table read as a run of lengths, for one client and again for a couple or a second therapist.

  • Balance on arrival

    The balance on arrival is the part of the fee still owed when she comes through the door, settled once at the outset in cash, by card or in crypto.

  • Deposit

    The deposit is half the fee, paid once the hour is agreed and before she sets out; what is kept on cancelling follows the notice you give.

  • Cancellation and refunds

    What a cancellation costs follows the notice: nothing more than a day ahead, half the deposit inside the last day, the whole deposit once she has set out.

  • False bookings

    A false booking is one placed under a name that is not the client's, from someone else's number, or as a joke; it is noted internally for twelve months.

  • Arrival window

    Forty to sixty minutes separate the office confirming from her knock at any central address; that arrival window is long enough to ready a room without hurry.

  • WhatsApp booking

    A WhatsApp booking is a session asked for and confirmed in writing in one quiet thread, the hour, the length and every figure set down before she sets out.

  • 21+ and the age gate

    The age gate is the brief confirmation that opens this site; every booking, and everyone in the room during a session, has to be twenty-one or over.

  • Tantra

    Tantra is a Sanskrit word for a large body of old texts and practices; on a massage menu it names a technique defined by slow pace, breath and stillness.

  • Tantric

    Tantric is the adjective most people type when searching; on this site a tantric massage and a tantra massage are the same booking, at the same price.

  • Lingam

    Lingam is the Sanskrit word the menu uses for the tantra session as offered to a man; it follows the same slow structure and the same ladder.

  • Yoni

    Yoni is the Sanskrit word the menu uses for the tantra session as offered to a woman; it is booked at ninety minutes or longer, and usually at two hours.

  • Breath

    Breath, in a tantra session, is the measure of pace: the rhythm the session slows to and follows, and the one thing a client is asked to notice.

  • Ritual

    Ritual, as the house uses the word, means the small ordered steps that open and close a tantra session, kept for the sake of pace, never for belief.

  • Ninety-minute minimum

    The ninety-minute minimum is a working habit rather than a rule of the ladder: an hour can be booked, but tantra rarely has room to breathe inside one.

  • Sensual versus tantra

    Sensual and tantra both move slowly, but sensual is defined by mood and touch, and tantra by tempo and breath; the ladder prices them identically.

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