Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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and he would have to do
particular writing things for me,

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not for anybody else.
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I was ordered to write that script.
I didn't want to do it.

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I hated video.
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The most famous one
is every time that we had sex,

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not necessarily S & M,
but actual intercourse,

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I would tell him,
"You have to write about it."

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That was for a year.
That journal was kept.

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After three hours of writing
I asked for permission

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to come back to bed where we slapped
and licked each others' assholes.

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And I get spanked and bleed a little
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and we fucked, boy,
we did fuck.

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Every time Bob would get into
some kind of position--

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I would have him in the closet,
in the bed or wherever--

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I ran for my camera
and started photographing it.

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Again it was my urge
to document what was going on.

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He had told me a fantasy
he had of being hit

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with a lot of different implements
and photographing that.

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So we set up this whole elaborate set-up
with camera and bulb release.

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We had a backdrop
and I had him in bondage.

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Sometimes I had the bulb in one hand
and the whip in the other.

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Sometimes Bob had the bulb
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and each time he got hit
that's when we snapped it.

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Overall I think
we did 15 different implements--

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36 shots each.
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I find that I don't have
that power over him anymore.

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He is now sort of coming to his own
as a visual artist.

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My influence over him in that way
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is not nearly as much as it was
in the early beginning stages of it.

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Don't you collaborate
in his performances?

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We totally collaborate.
It's a real interesting process.

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- All right Bob, enough?
- Keep going.

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Don't make it phony, just do it.
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Up higher. Tighter.
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Head up a little bit.

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