What Belongs Where

Aaarghh! I heard a scream just as I walked out of the small room after my last session and saw Milena rush out of the foyer and into the back room. Fairy was sitting on the couch with a slightly stunned expression. I looked at her questioningly, but she just stared after Milena. I shrugged […]

The End of Commercial Sex

One evening I took on a 2-hour session with one of the more talkative parlor regulars. He had called in earlier that day to book the back room with the largest whirlpool, since that was his favorite part of our service offer—soaking in warm, bubbly water for hours and chatting with the masseuse. Sometimes he […]

Anonymity and Destigmatization

“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” (Tacitus) Many people who choose to sell erotic services find themselves struggling […]

Gawkers and Loiterers

There were always guests who made very odd entrances and left even odder impressions. I figured it was either because they weren’t very well-versed in the erotic business and were just nervous or because they were arrogant or just creepy. Every now and then someone would stumble into the parlor who had never been there […]

Sincerely Superficial

Coming from an upper-middle class household in the north of Poland, Kiara was the child of fiercely ambitious business people. She was 21 when she finished her first university degree in media studies in Poland, and like many Polish women, her choice to move to Germany was economically motivated. As a naturally curious and erotic […]

Curiously Studious

There are rumors that red light work attracts students (which is also kind of a cliché—young, curious female students doing sex work to pay their way through school), but apart from myself, the only other student I had ever met working in erotic massage was Liane, a young woman in her late twenties who joined […]

Snow Vixen

“Oooo…it’s Jean-Pierre again!!” she would squeal with delight whenever her favorite regular called in to book an appointment with her. Emily was quite open about her affection towards her regulars, although she never gave the impression that she was looking for anything serious from a particular guest. She just liked to flirt a lot and […]

Erratic Massage

Tall and slender with bright blue eyes and a default scornful, distrustful look on her face, Nadja was actually feared by most of the other masseuses. Not in the sense that they saw her as competition, but rather because of her highly unpredictable temper. She had managed to make a few of the masseuses break […]

Cuddle Corners & Whirlpools

The parlor was on the ground floor of a five-story apartment building on a street famous for squat houses down the road and all of the rowdy punks that always hung out on the sidewalks. There were four rooms for working (massaging) and one area in the front by the entrance where the girls sat […]

45 Minutes

The service offers were printed on large, wide laminated sheets of paper in order of time booked. The least amount of time that could be booked was 10 minutes—and that was just a basic hand job for 20€ from a half-naked masseuse. All other offers were performed nude and on the bed. Most guests booked […]