Jordaan · Amsterdam

Banks

A Friday evening is the part of a short break she is easiest to reach for, and the Jordaan sits a short ride from central addresses.

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Banks keeps her weekend work at the front of the weekend. A guest who lands on a Friday afternoon arrives stiff from sitting rather than worn out from walking, and that is the body she would rather be given. She works in French or English, whichever the room opens in, and at twenty-four she has stopped asking a visitor to explain himself before anything starts. Tantra is the format she paces well, which on a two night trip argues for ninety minutes rather than an hour. Her street is in the Jordaan, so the crossing to a central address falls at the short end of the forty to sixty minutes the house quotes.

Banks decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.