About Us
Our Background
When HandJobs Media launched at Club Subversion on April 1st 2006, we had four distribution venues, nine Fabulous clients, one Fabulous Lucy to help with the handouts, …and a bit too much champagne.
Now, we have over 19 regular distribution venues nationwide and over 185 clients in seven countries (UK, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Israel), many of whom are the best-known and most respected names on the world fetish scene.
We've also got a whole Fabulous and Friendly and ever-growing team of Club Flyer Crew, and 2011 is our sixth year running as official media partners and sole flyer agents for the most famous fetish event in the world, the Skin Two Rubber Ball weekend.
We are also pleased to be sponsors for London Fetish Weekend 2010 and 2011.
Our Experience
HandJobs Media was created by Michaela van Es and Peter
Griffin to serve the needs of the fetish and BDSM
community. Veterans of London's dynamic and flourishing
fetish/BDSM scene with over 16 years combined experience;
they 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 more recently Business Adviser specialising in small businesses and start-ups, Michaela’s past clients enjoy a high rate of success, with over 80% still trading after two years. Michaela is also a Member of the Institute of Business Advisers (IBA). Peter has over a decade’s experience as a City Business Analyst and IT Consultant with extensive Project Management expertise in international financial markets.
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 already targeted by the mass marketers
for exploitation. The risk toindependent 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.