Hello and good morning! I am a longtime member of TER. Well, I know the criteria for an escort merit but not massage. How does one receive high merits for massage? I just don't know how this board regulates on massage. Thank you in advance.

Swim and others are better at these Qs, but I'll take a shot. Review guidelines stipulate: "In order to keep our performance ratings consistent, we set up the following system: An escort provider may only earn up to a 7, unless she also performs the following during a session: Kisses With Tongue, Bare-Back Blow Job, Really Bi, Anal Sex, or More than One Guy. The addition of each offering will raise her score by one point. If your review doesn't already accurately reflect this rating system, we will adjust it."

Clearly, the highest Performance Rating for massage only is 7. 7 is a good score no matter what, so you can consider a 7/7 to be like a 10/10, sort of. I'm guessing that a good massage (as in good therapeutic massage) will get high marks (7/7) and a good, happy ending to the massage will also help to get high marks (7/7).  

Crappy massage will merit something lower than 7/7 and an unhappy ending might take away points. While a 5/7 or a 6/7 might feel disappointing because it seems like a 5/10 or 6/10, you have to remember the 7 point maximum.  

I think others will chime in with better explanations and criteria

the scoring guidelines, regardless of what kind of session you have with the provider.  The scoring guidelines do not have a separate category/rating system for massage only.

LLAP,
Swim

Massage only.

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In my post, I was referring to performance only. 5/7 was 5-out-of-7 and not Appearance/Performance.  

A 7 is a good score and is really the best 7-out-of-7 score for massage only.

I will admit that looking at a pretty girl with her head bobbing up and down on my schlong can improve her appearance by a point or two but, yes, appearance scoring is totally separate from performance and 10 is the max no matter what the setting

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....all a massage lady has to do is "kiss with tongue".

I have seen a number of reviews indicating that service was provided and "8" reviews in a profile.

Haven't seen it yet but I have seen massage girls get 9s with DFK and BBBJ.
If they do DFK and BBBJ and are "really bi" they would qualify for a 10. However, the gist of this thread is that "generally" a massage provider will max out at 7 in performance.