Book cover for "The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline"

John Alexander Scott Coutts (December 9, 1902 - August 5, 1962), better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer and bondage artist. Cover scan from the book The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, personal scan, claiming fair use (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution). ... Cover scan from the book The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, personal scan, claiming fair use (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution). ... Jump to: navigation, search December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search A fetish photographer is a photographer who takes photographs of people in fetishistic situations, such as in bondage, or wearing rubber or leather clothing. ... A fetish artist is an artist who depicts people in fetishistic situations. ...

Coutts was born in Singapore and grew up in England; he was a relative of a wealthy banking family. In the 1930s, he taught himself how to draw while living in Australia. In 1940, he moved to New York City where he published his bondage and fetish magazine "Bizarre" from 1946 to 1959 (compare with ENEG's "Exotique" magazine, published 1956 - 1959). Volume 2 appeared first in 1946, volume 1 wasn't published until after volume 13 in 1954. The reason is unknown. Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Book cover for Best of Bizarre Book Bizarre was a fetish magazine published by John Willie. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gene Bilbrew (1923 - 1974) was a fetish artist who had illustrations published in Exotique magazine from 1956 to 1959. ... Book cover for The Complete Reprint of Exotique: The First 36 Issues, 1951-1957 Exotique magazine was published by Leonard Burtman in New York City between 1955 and 1959. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The magazine included many photographs, often of his wife. There were also many letters from readers; he was accused of inventing these letters, but insisted that they were genuine.

As a bondage artist, he is best known for his figure of Sweet Gwendoline, which he drew in a clear, anatomically correct style that influenced later artists such as ENEG and Eric Stanton. Other characters include U69 (censored to U89 in some editions) as the raven-haired dominatrix who ties up Gwendoline and Sir Dystic d'Arcy, the only male character and probably a parody of Willie himself. A fetish artist is an artist who depicts people in fetishistic situations. ... Sweet Gwendoline is the main female character in the works of bondage artist John Willie and possibly the most famous bondage icon after Bettie Page. ... Gene Bilbrew (1923 - 1974) was a fetish artist who had illustrations published in Exotique magazine from 1956 to 1959. ... Book cover for The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 - March 17, 1999) was a 20th century bondage artist. ... A dominatrix or mistress is a woman who takes the dominant role in sado-masochistic sexual practices. ...

The comic strip was published by Irving Klaw, who forced Stanton to paint clothes over the whip marks on the originals of "The Escape Artist" and "The Missing Princess". Teaserama film poster Photographer Irving Klaw ran a mail-order business selling photographs and film of attractive women in bondage from the 1940s to the 1960s. ...

Coutts developed a brain tumor in 1961 and was forced to stop his mail order business. He destroyed his archives and returned to England, where he died. Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Quote

"Unless a model is a good actress, and has 'that type' of face it's difficult for her to look sad and miserable when working for me. My studio is a pretty cheerful place, and quite unlike the atmosphere that surrounds Gwendoline when the Countess gets hold of her." - John Willie, The Art of John Willie, Sophisticated Bondage - Book Two (Page 1)

See also

• Fetish artist
• Eric Stanton
• Irving Klaw
• Sexual fetishism

A fetish artist is an artist who depicts people in fetishistic situations. ... Book cover for The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 - March 17, 1999) was a 20th century bondage artist. ... Teaserama film poster Photographer Irving Klaw ran a mail-order business selling photographs and film of attractive women in bondage from the 1940s to the 1960s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Alfred Binet in his Le fétichisme dans l’amour, though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a...

Further Reading

• A John Willie Portfolio, n.1 (a cura di Carl McGuire), Van Nuys, CA., London Ent. Ltd., 1987
• Bizarre: The Complete Reprint of John Willie's Bizarre, Vols. 1-26; ISBN 3822892696 Taschen. Edited by Eric Kroll.
• Plusieurs possibilites. Photographies de John Willie, Paris, Futuropolis, 1985
• The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, 2nd Edition ISBN 0914646486. Belier Press, 2nd edition (1999).
• The Art of John Willie - Sophisticated Bondage (Book One)
  • An illustrated biography edited by Stefano Piselli & Riccardo Morrocchi (128 pages)
• The Art of John Willie - Sophisticated Bondage (Book Two)
  • An illustrated biography edited by Stefano Piselli & Riccardo Morrocchi (128 pages)
• The Bound Beauties of Irving Klaw & John Willie, vol 2, Van Nuys, CA., Harmony Comm., 1977
• The First John Willie Bondage Photo Book, Van Nuys, CA., London Ent. Ltd., 1978
• The Second John Willie Bondage Photo Book, Van Nuys, CA., London Ent. Ltd., 1978
• The Works of John Willie (a cura di Peter Stevenson), s.l., s.e., s.d.

The art book publisher Taschen has been a noteworthy force in getting lesser-seen art, including some fetishistic imagery, available to the mainstream, by publishing the works of the appropriate artists (e. ...

External links

• http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu/~sofa/past/1997/desire/plates.html
• http://www.lambiek.net/willie_john.htm
• "The Rembrandt of Pulp"
• http://www.belierpress.com/review.html
• http://americanfetish.net
• John Willie