Jeff Gord

{{short description|Bondage artist, sculptor and photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jeffrey E. Owen | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|05|05}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|09|03|1946|05|05}} | known_for = {{unbulleted list| * Bondage photography * Bondage rigging * Forniphilia }} }} '''Jeffrey E. Owen''' (5 May 1946 - 3 September 2013<ref name=":1" />), better known by his alias '''Jeff Gord''',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Binion|first=Andrew|date=February 28, 2007|title=Owners of Adult Web Site File Suit|url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/local/owners-of-adult-web-site-file-suit-ep-423226531-359080151.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815073649/http://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/owners-of-adult-web-site-file-suit-ep-423226531-359080151.html|archive-date=2020-08-15|access-date=2020-08-15|website=www.kitsapsun.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Owen v. County of Kitsap, CASE NO. C07-5044BHS {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator |url=https://casetext.com/case/owen-v-county-of-kitsap |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024172605/https://casetext.com/case/owen-v-county-of-kitsap |archive-date=2021-10-24 |access-date=2021-10-12 |website=casetext.com}}</ref> was a bondage artist, photographer and filmmaker.<ref name="Jeff Gord Interview">{{cite web|date=24 October 2007|title=Jeff Gord Interview|url=http://socialkink.com/articles.php?do=view&id=92|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422130006/http://socialkink.com/articles.php?do=view&id=92|archive-date=22 April 2009|access-date=12 May 2009}}</ref><ref name="hames">Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, {{ISBN|0-9556326-0-9}}, pp. 184–188</ref> who specialized in the forniphilia subgenre, a form of objectifying sexual bondage which involves the subject being tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 April 2007|title=The kinks of virtual men|journal=The Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/The-kinks-of-virtual-men/articleshow/1911674.cms|access-date=14 October 2010}}</ref> He described his work as being for women's pleasure, saying "if the women don't enjoy it it's no good for me".<ref>{{Citation |title=Stripped Down TV at the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas with Jeff Gord |date=June 15, 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPb_rU7BP0 |work=Stripped Down TV |language=en |access-date=2022-12-13}}</ref>

== Background == Born in the United Kingdom,<ref name=ayzad/> Gord described himself as a "mad bondage scientist".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-11-16|title=Allen Jones: The model of misogyny?|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/allen-jones-the-model-of-misogyny-9863850.html|access-date=2020-06-30|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Daultrey|first=Stephen|url=http://archive.org/details/Bizarre_Magazine_UK_July_2013|title=Bizarre Magazine UK|date=July 2013|publisher=Blackthorn Communications|page=84}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Harol|first1=Corrinne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4E0DwAAQBAJ|title=Literary / Liberal Entanglements: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century|last2=Simpson|first2=Mark|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2017|isbn=9781442630901|page=70}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-07-24|title=La forniphilie, ou comment meubler au mieux nos moments sexe|url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/2018/07/24/sexe/sexe/la-forniphilie-le-passe-temps-ideal-pour-meubler-nos-moments-de-sexe/|access-date=2020-06-30|website=Les Inrockuptibles|language=fr-FR}}</ref> His influences included Robert Bishop, Eric Stanton and John Willie.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeff Gord Interview: Part I|url=http://www.scene-mag.com/jeff-gord-interview-part-1/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175415/http://www.scene-mag.com/jeff-gord-interview-part-1/|archive-date=2016-03-03|website=Scene Magazine}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Tribute to Jeff Gord – Fearless Press |url=https://www.fearlesspress.com/2013/09/24/a-tribute-to-jeff-gord/ |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.fearlesspress.com}}</ref>

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."<ref name=":0" />

== Death == Gord died on 3 September 2013, at the age of 67.<ref name=ayzad>{{Cite web|date=2013-09-07|title=Memento mori: on Gord, real life and the Web|url=https://www.ayzad.com/memento-mori-gord-real-life-web/|access-date=2020-08-15|website=Ayzad|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-09-03|title=Announcement|url=https://www.houseofgord.com/announcement.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909031250/https://www.houseofgord.com/announcement.html|archive-date=2013-09-09|access-date=|website=House of Gord}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jeff Gord Interview Part 2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614185752/http://www.scene-mag.com/jeff-gord-interview-part-2/| archive-date=2017-06-14 |url=http://www.scene-mag.com/jeff-gord-interview-part-2/|access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Scene Magazine}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{official website}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPb_rU7BP0 Video interview with Jeff Gord on Stripped Down TV]

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