Jeffrey E. Owen (5 May 1946 - 3 September 2013), better known by his alias Jeff Gord, was a

bondage artist A fetish artist is a sculptor, illustrator, or painter who makes fetish art: art related to sexual fetishism and fetishistic acts. Fetish artists, 1930s–1990s * Charles Guyette * John Willie * Eric Stanton (a.k.a. John Bee, Savage, Stanten) ...

and photographer.Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, , pp. 184–188 who specialized in the

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subgenre, a form of

objectifying In social philosophy, objectification is the act of treating a person, as an object or a thing. It is part of dehumanization, the act of disavowing the humanity of others. Sexual objectification, the act of treating a person as a mere object of sex ...

sexual bondage Bondage in the BDSM subculture, is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. A partner may be physically restrained in a variety of ways, including the use o ...

which involves the subject being tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period. He described his work as being for women's pleasure, saying "I feed on women's pleasure". Born in the United Kingdom, Gord described himself as a "mad bondage scientist". He initially founded his own publishing company in 1992, publishing erotic books specialising in bondage stories. In 1997, he launched and maintained the website "House of Gord" on the subject. His influences included Robert Bishop, Eric Stanton and John Willie. He stated that his first interest in fetish had been when, as a small child, he saw an actress on stage wearing tight lycra, and wished he could tie her up so that she could not move. Aaron Kunin has described Gord's vision of the human body as "as spectacular and thorough in its commitment to objectification as Busby Berkeley’s." Gord died in 2013, at the age of 67.

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