A window shows you everything and tells you nothing. A page can at least be straight with you: here are the forty-five, with their districts, their languages and a handful of lines we are prepared to stand behind.













































The cards above are the start of a decision, not the end of one. What a photograph proves is limited, a face, a certain light, the way she wanted to be seen on the afternoon we took it. What it cannot prove is the thing an erotic hour actually rests on: whether her attention holds in the fortieth minute the way it held in the fourth, whether her hands and her nerve keep the same tempo, whether she can read a stranger's evening and answer it without being briefed. Those are the qualities we hired for, and no camera has ever caught them.
Nobody joins from a photo set. Each of the forty-five sat across a table from us before her name went up, and the pictures on these pages came out of our camera, not her archive, so what you see is what knocks. They range from twenty-one to thirty, carry roughly two dozen nationalities between them, and live scattered through the Jordaan, the old centre, Oud-Zuid and De Pijp, a spread that is not decoration but logistics, since it is why a woman can reach any central address within half an hour of the word yes. Each lists only the services she actually gives, and the list is hers to set; the house sells six, and no one is obliged to carry all of them.
The first way is the obvious one: choose a face, send the name, and get a plain answer about tonight. The second works better than most people expect: describe the evening, the service, the hours, the languages you would rather think in, one of you or two, and let us name the woman, because who is free and who is on form is visible from our side of the thread and invisible from yours. For a pair, decide early and say so; the good pairings are made of two diaries, and two diaries want a little notice.