Denver-based tech manager Andrea Heap has an unusual side hustle: Since 2010, she’s taught people from all walks of life, and of all genders, how to give a hand job. Like, the . Her classes, which she teaches primarily at her home, are intensive and uncensored—complete with props, , and, once, a live model.
I first met Heap, a bubbly redhead with an infectious laugh, during a yoga and writing retreat in Greece in May of 2022. After dinner one evening, she offered to give the motley assortment of 15 or so other women a taste of her highly-rated hand-job class. Armed with our travel-sized bottles of olive oil, which we had discreetly swiped from the table at dinner, and plied with a European-sized serving of wine, we squeezed into her hotel room, giggling like tween girls at a sleepover.
Heap sat in the center of the room, and, using our yoga instructor's forearm as a stand-in for a penis, demonstrated with the casual confidence of a true professional the myriad ways to touch a partner using one's god-given tools: palms, fingers, knuckles, forearms, and even elbows. Andrea Heap Curious about role playing or electrostimulation? Keep reading. But it’s not just an interest in technique that inspired her to want to teach others how to give a great hand job.
For Heap, being in her “sexual power” while giving manual pleasure is a form of empowerment and a means of building an intimate connection. “When I lay my hands on someone and touch them with intention, I’m doing i.
