Why a hotel room suits the title chapter
Body to body work asks more of a space than an ordinary massage does. Two people need to lie at full length, side by side and one above the other, without a headboard or a wall interrupting the stroke. The oil wants a warm room; the gel, when that is the chapter, wants a shower within a few steps. Privacy has to be complete and unselfconscious. A decent Amsterdam hotel room answers each of those requirements before anyone has lifted a finger, which is why hotels fill the greater share of the diary, from suites overlooking the Amstel to compact rooms in converted merchant houses. The house keeps no premises of its own and has never wanted any. The room you have already paid for makes a better venue than anything we could build.











