Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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1:07:06
"And just now I had an accident.
1:07:09
I nailed the head of my cock to a board
1:07:12
the way I saw in a magazine
the other day.

1:07:15
I got so excited by it
that I had to try it.

1:07:18
While trying to drive the nail in..."
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I'm gonna stand up for this.
1:07:22
"While trying to drive the nail
in a little further,

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I missed...
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and just, I thought,
tapped the tip of my poor cock.

1:07:33
It didn't hurt.
1:07:35
The nail was handling it--
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it didn't hurt--
the nail was handling that job.

1:07:41
But, shit,
it started swelling up immediately.

1:07:43
I thought it would never stop
and imagined it bursting.

1:07:48
And seeing that being the end of me
and sex the way I know it.

1:07:53
I pulled the nail out
as quick as I could,

1:07:55
using alcohol swabs
to stop the bleeding.

1:07:58
The penis bleeds an enormous amount.
1:08:01
Just one little pinprick
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and it looks like
a murder had taken place.

1:08:06
Imagine what a nail hole was like.
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So now there's a big,
black knot on the end of my dick.

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All I can do is hope it goes away.
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I'm amazingly calm.
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I've had accidents before.
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And they always
seem to turn out all right.

1:08:24
After extracting the nail,
and stopping the blood,

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and putting ice on the throbbing knot,
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I tied myself up on my stomach,
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wrists attached to my ankles--
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don't ask how, it's too complicated--
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I got excited and jacked off.
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When I looked down, shit,
the whole towel and mattress

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were soaked with blood.
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I stayed calm, though,
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and methodically cleaned everything up
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just like Tony Perkins."

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