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Bob Flanagan (December 27 1952- January 4 1996) was an American writer, poet, performance artist, and comic. He was also a sufferer of cystic fibrosis who used BDSM to convert his pain into pleasure, and into his art. He was the subject of the documentary .
Flanagan is featured in the widely banned music video for the song Happiness In Slavery by Nine Inch Nails. In the video, he plays a character who straps himself to a torture machine that ultimately rapes and kills him.
While some of his performances were notable for acts of extreme masochism (on at least one occasion he hammered a nails through his own scrotum, while cracking jokes), he also wrote rather clever, humorous songs, many of them intended as much for children as adults.
Partial bibliography
- The Wedding of Everything (1983)
- The Kid is the Man (1978)
- Slave Sonnets (1986)
- Fuck Journal (1987)
- A Taste of Honey with David Trinidad (1990)
- Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (1993) (interviews)
- Pain Journal (unpublished)
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