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The vocabulary, in plain English

Directories and review boards run on a shorthand that nobody explains because everyone using it already knows it. This is the logistics half of that shorthand — the words that describe how something is arranged rather than what it is.

On a listing

Incall — she hosts, at a location she arranges.
Outcall — she travels to you, normally a hotel.
Travel fee — the surcharge on an outcall outside her area, usually banded by distance.
Independent — she runs her own listing and answers her own messages.
Agency — a house handles bookings and advertising; the house name appears under hers on the card.
Massage establishment — a licensed premises, listed separately from escort listings and with its own board section.
Duration — the length of a booking, usually the unit everything else is quoted against.

Arranging

Screening — the checks done before a booking is confirmed. Explained at length here.
References — contact details for providers you have seen before, who can confirm you are who you say.
Verification — confirming an identity, usually through employment rather than references.
Deposit — a payment in advance, common for longer bookings and travel.
No-show — failing to arrive without cancelling. Both sides use the word and both sides remember it.

On the board

Review — a first-hand account posted by a member.
Post count — how many times an account has posted, shown beside every review. The fastest way to weigh one.
VIP and Promoted — the paid placement tiers, always labelled on the card so a paid position never looks like a ranking.
Available now — a provider has marked herself available today. It is set by her, not inferred.

What is not here

There is a second half to the shorthand — the acronyms describing what a booking involves. Those are not listed here and are not used in the site's own copy. They are widely used on the board itself and their meaning is generally clear in context.

Read next

  • Incall and outcall, explainedThe two words every listing uses and most people guess at. What incall and outcall actually mean, what each involves, and how travel fees work.
  • Screening, and why you will be askedWhy providers ask for a real name, references or employment verification before they confirm a booking, and what a reasonable request looks like.
  • Agency or independentAgencies and independents are different experiences, not better and worse. What each one changes about booking, scheduling and continuity.
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