Glossary

Duration ladder and the pace of tantra

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.

Most massage menus price the technique. This one does not. Tantra, lingam, yoni, sensual, nuru and every other named technique cost the same for the same length, and the district, the hour of night and the day of the week make no difference either. The house calls its rate table a ladder because each step up is a longer span of time, and the price rises with it evenly.

The rungs with one therapist

For a single client, the first rung is sixty minutes, and its fee is the unit every other rung is measured in. Half an hour more adds half that unit; a second full hour doubles it; a third triples it. Past that point each further hour adds one more unit. The last rung is the overnight: a flat figure covering eight hours, not a tally of them.

The rungs with two in the room

A second person in the room doubles the single-client figures, whichever side of the massage that person is on. A single client with two therapists, or a couple sharing one, pays twice the single figure at every one of those four lengths. The nights part company: four hands on one client until morning and a couple with one therapist each carry a night figure of their own. A couple with two therapists pays four times the single figure across those same four lengths, and has a separate rate for the night.

Reading it for tantra

For a slow technique the lowest rung is rarely the natural choice. An hour exists on the ladder and can be booked, yet most tantra sessions are placed at ninety minutes or two hours, because the opening and the close cannot be compressed without losing the pace that defines them. The ninety-minute minimum entry explains that working habit, and the two-hour guide describes the length most clients settle on.

The rung also bears on the deposit. Once a booking reaches three hours, half its price goes ahead, whoever books it; a pair of therapists brings the same condition at any length. Current figures always appear in the rates table on each of the therapists' profiles, which is the reference if anything here and there should ever differ.

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