Bob Flanagan (December 27 1952- January 4 1996) was an American writer, poet, artist and comic. He was also a sufferer from cystic fibrosis who used BDSM to convert his pain into pleasure, and into his art. He was the subject of the documentary SICK: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.
Partial bibliography:
- The Wedding of Everything (1983)
- The Kid is the Man (1978)
- Slave Sonnets (1986)
- Fuck Journal (1987)
- A Taste of Honey (1990)
- Bob Flanagan:Supermasochist (1993) (interviews)
- Pain Journal (unpublished)