Cultural studies. Bob Flanagan is both a poet and a performance artist. In this volume's deeply confessional interviews, Bob details his sexual practices and his extraordinary relationship with long-term partner and Mistress, photographer Sheree Rose. He tells how frequent near-death encounters modified his concepts of gratification and abstinence, reward and punishment, and intensified his masochistic drive. The most extreme narratives are infused with humor, honesty, and self-reflective irony. Bob's sharp intelligence and lack of pretense belie a deep commitment to deciphering philosophical issues regarding the body, power, sex, life, and death.
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Flanagan is a poet and performance artist whose lifelong struggle against cystic fibrosis and whose taste for sado-masochism have led him into artworks that examine the fringes of sexual behavior. By surviving into his 40s, he has already beat the odds against his illness, a triumph he attributes in no small part to his willingness to surrender to the desires of his body: "I've learned to fight sickness with sickness." The book includes six interviews by the editors with Flanagan and one with his partner/lover/dominatrix Sheree Rose, as well as considerable graphic documentation of his performances. In their sententious introduction, Re/Search publishers Juno and Vale extol Flanagan for "giving us a glimpse of a more tolerant, more responsible and more conscious society where creativity is no longer fettered by censorship, sexist repression and denial of one's past." Flanagan himself is often quite funny in discussing the reactions of others to him and to his sex life but most readers will be repelled by the descriptions of such practices as genital piercing and hanging for long periods of time naked in a closet. Not for the squeamish.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Intense reading,
By TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (Re/Search people series) (Paperback)
This collection of interviews with Flanagan and his wife along with some of his creative work is a great tribute to a man who had so much to overcome and did it in a way that most of society could not understand. It would have been easy for someone to give up or to become self focused, but Flanagan used his body and his mind to push himself, push his illness, and try to educate the rest of the world about his struggle and about kink. A lot of what is written and shown will disturb you, it should distrub you, but you'll walk away thinking he was a very brave man.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Super-masochist is super straightforward,
By Rae Schwarz "post-modern Renaissance woman" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (Re/Search people series) (Paperback)
Meet Bob Flanagan, devoted SM enthusiast and cystic fibrosis patient. Andrea Juno and V. Vale collected a series of intervies with Flanagan and his partner/mistress Sheree Rose about his life and their alternative lifestyle choices. Flanagan is a poet, writer, performance artist and musician, along with trying to create a 24/7 submissive and masochistic life scenario with Rose, all while trying to survive the ever increasing damage to his lungs and body from cystic fibrosis. He fights his pain with pain, and overall, has a very powerful, rich life. The presentation of such intense erotic detail comes across as natural and normal in the relaxed conversations of Vale and Juno with Flanagan, his friends and family.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
bring an open mind,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (Re/Search people series) (Paperback)
the book i felt is a very good explanation of how he got into the bondage scene [not that i know bob flanagan or anything] and his felings on having cystic fibrosis if you lick the book then i suggest watching SICK: life and death of bob flanagan
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