Our Background
When HandJobs Media launched at Club Subversion on April 1st 2006, we had four distribution venues, nine Fabulous clients, one Fabulous Lucy helping give out the bags…and a bit too much champagne!
Now, in 2015, we are in our 10th year of trading; we have over 19 regular distribution venues nationwide and over 200 clients in eight countries (UK, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, and Israel), many of whom are the best-known and most respected names on the world fetish scene.
We’ve also got an ever-growing team of Fabulous and Friendly Club Flyer Crew and we are proud and pleased to be retained, for the eighth year in a row, as official Media Partners, sponsors and sole flyer agents both for London Fetish Weekend and for the KFS Media (formerly Skin Two) UK events. This year we are pleased to be sponsors of the first Sexhibition event in Manchester.
Our Experience
HandJobs Media was created by Michaela van Es to serve the needs of the fetish and BDSM community. A veteran of London’s dynamic and flourishing fetish/BDSM scene with over 20 years active experience; Michaela wanted to bring the absolute best of the fetish world’s specialist services and products directly to the fetish community. And so HandJobs Media was created.
On a professional level, Michaela has over 25 years broad-based business experience in sales and marketing across a wide range of sectors including leisure, entertainment, FMCG, telecomms and the public sector. An experienced business-to-business marketing professional and also a former Business Adviser specialising in small businesses and start-ups, Michaela has wide-ranging experience and skills together with an extensive contacts list and in-depth knowledge of the fetish scene.
Our motto at HandJobs Media is “Fabulous. Friendly. Focused on Fetish.” This motto applies not only to the philosophy for the business, but also to our way of life and our approach to our diverse range of clients.
Our Aim
Our aim is to benefit the entire fetish community and support independence. As the mainstream media becomes more enamoured of fetish imagery, we believe we can help our fellow fetish entrepreneurs retain their creativity and increase their control in a niche marketplace increasingly targeted by the mass marketers for exploitation. The risk to independent fetish entrepreneurs is similar to that of specialist neighbourhood retailers under threat, as giant supermarket chains promote a vast array of services under one roof to a market concerned less with creativity than with cost and mass distribution.
Ours is a community of creativity, of self-expression, of independence, and of interdependence. Most of all it is one of informed choice.
We have chosen to unify our personal, political and spiritual goals with our work and the way we earn our living.
