The ‘Hand Angels’ Volunteer To Give Handjobs To The Severely Disabled And OH MY GOD

I’m having a little difficulty digesting everything I just read on VICE about the ‘Hand Angels’, a volunteer (NGO) organization in Taiwan that counsels the severely disabled by giving and getting them handjobs.

After reading this feature from VICE, I must now come to sticky grips with the fact that I am not as good of a person as I thought I was. Because at no point in my life would I EVER go so far as to give/get a severely disabled person a handy all for the sake of sexual therapy. I simply do not care about my fellow man to facilitate something such as that.

But that will never be an issue for me, because I am not a ‘Hand Angel’ and I’ll never find myself in a situation where jacking off a severely disabled person is in the cards.

The Hand Angels are the REAL HEROES, and we’re not here to talk about how shitty of a person I am, but how great the ‘Hand Angels’ truly are, and how they’re out there doing the work the rest of us are too cowardly to grapple with.

I highly suggest reading the VICE article in full, but below are a few choice excerpts detailing just what it is the Hand Angels do. And if you’re really interested there’s a video at the very end of this post for you to really take it all in!

Andy is a muscular dystrophy patient who lives with his parents in southern Taiwan. Due to his severe physical disability, he was home-schooled and couldn’t leave his house alone, so never really had the opportunity to develop either an active social life or a romantic relationship.

When the Taiwanese NGO Hand Angel—an organization promoting the sexual rights of disabled people—first spoke to Andy, they realized this situation meant he’d also never been able to have a frank conversation with anyone about his sexuality. And as a young gay man who didn’t want to speak to his parents about his feelings, this wasn’t exactly the healthiest situation to be in.

So, over the course of a few months, representatives from the NGO counseled Andy online, helping him to understand his own sexuality and place in the world. Next, they “smuggled” him out of his house and took him to a motel for a handjob.

Well, that escalated quickly. We go from ‘Andy cannot take care of himself’ to ‘They snuck Andy into a brothel and jacked him off.’ But moving on, it gets a lot more in-depth, and weird…

In the Netherlands, the national health system provides a grant scheme for people with disabilities to receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year. In Taiwan, sex remains a taboo, and some Buddhists—the sovereign state’s primary religion—believe that someone suffering from a disability means they’re paying for bad deeds in a past life. So not the best mix for those like Andy, really.

“I can’t tell my parents that I also have sexual desires, and I can’t come out of the closet in front them,” he told me. “My family’s care puts lots of pressure [on me] and sabotages me from normal romantic relations.”

Vincent, the 50-year-old founder of Hand Angel, lost his legs to polio and says his disability allows him to better empathize with applicants’ needs, without any of the patronization disabled people can sometimes face. He emphasized that “disabled people share the same physical and emotional needs as any others, and therefore should have the right to pursue them.”

Why am I not surprised that The Netherlands government pays the severely disabled to get jacked off once a month? The Netherlands are traditionally a bellwether in all things taboo, so to see that they’ve jumped on this ‘HJ’s for the Handicapped’ train lets me know that the entire world will hop on board the HJ Express in the coming decades.

Volunteers—the group of 10 people actually giving the handjobs—come from varied backgrounds; some are gay, some are straight, some are disabled, some are PhD students, some are social campaigners and some work in the media. It’s made very clear to me that these volunteers only use their hands for second-base kind of stuff—that hugging, caressing, and kissing on the face are all fine, but anything penetrative (fingering, oral sex, vaginal sex, and anal sex) is not.

No penetration? Right, got it. Everyone has to maintain standards.

Andy summed it up: “I didn’t feel I was the target of pity. The whole process was full of respect and equality. This might be deemed as controversial by society, but as long as you’re willing to look into it, what we desire is no different from others. Just ask yourself: do you need to consult your parents before having sex?”

Well now that we’ve reached the end of our bizarre journey, you can read the article IN FULL HERE ON VICE. Or you can watch an 18-minute video from VICE Japan by clicking here.

I know this may sound as if I’m being overly patronizing, but GOOD FOR THEM! Every man deserves a handjob at some point in his life, and just because these folks can’t secure those HJ’s themselves doesn’t mean they should be deprived of them…

Even if it may seem a bit depraved to your Western ideology, you just need to accept the fact that every man has biological and carnal needs, and the Hand Angels of Taiwan are volunteering to fulfill those needs.

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