The roster is the catalogue of named women a guest books from: fifteen portraits on this site, drawn from the forty-five therapists the house sends across Amsterdam.
Most massage sites open with a menu. This one opens with people. The roster is the set of profiles on the therapists page, each carrying a first name, an age, a nationality, a hair colour, a height, the languages she speaks and the sessions she gives. Fifteen hang here. Behind them stands a larger house of forty-five therapists, all working outcall, all answering to the same office, at every hour.
A good catalogue can be read in more than one direction. Take it by country and the wall divides into seven women from the eastern half of Europe and eight from the western half, from Liana, Romanian, to Molly, Irish. Take it by language and Lucie stands apart with French, Dutch and English, and Liana with Italian alongside Romanian and English. Take it by session and the seven who accept pair bookings separate from the eight who do not. Take it by hair and Lea turns out to be the only redhead among the fifteen. None of these routes is the correct one. Each is simply another door into the same fifteen frames.
A profile is a standing introduction, not a timetable. A woman listed as available this evening may be off the rota tomorrow, and the only dependable answer to whether she is free at a given hour comes from the office on the booking line. New faces join now and then, and they are shown on the new girls page as they take their place on the wall.
The ages printed sit between twenty-three and twenty-seven, and every woman on the roster is twenty-one or over, which is also the line every guest has to meet. Fees do not vary from one frame to the next; a single card covers all fifteen.
How a portrait becomes a reservation is covered under booking by name.