Claire has her flat in De Pijp, a few minutes by taxi from the squares where the late evenings of the city tend to finish. She works in French, German or English, and a guest may write in any of them. Tantra and sensual work are her usual choices, both taken at a steady pace. She is twenty-six, and her view of a night out is practical: the evening belongs to the guest, the hour in the room is shared, and the two do not overlap. She arrives at a room, never at a table or a queue.

Claire 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.