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Happiness in Slavery video



i havent seen this yet but i hear its extremely graphic...before i watch it i would like to kno why and how is is graphic...(i think it was "happiness" but it mite have been "gave up")...sorry i cant explain more. thanks.

why are you wearing that stupid man suit?donnie darko28:06:42:12

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Don't forget that his balls are locked in a vice-thing :p (ouch!)

IMHO it isn't that bad... the one part that I cringed a bit was the part when the claw ripped out his nipple :s

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Yer he is raped and tortured by a mechanical chair, but the gore aren't effects! it's all real! all the torturing and rape etc, except for the killing at the end.

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You're an Idiot.

Dead but warm?

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Check wikipedia. According to it everything is real except the things that would actually kill him. It wouldnt be impossible since he did that kinda stuff to himself anyway.

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Yes! Im sure he got his nipples ripped out completely and his genitals squished to spurt blood all over his body...For a NIN video! Yeah right. It doesn't mean that if it's on Wikipedia it is true. Use your common sens.
I believe some of it is true. Like his dick being pulled and even maybe the little claws that go in his hands, and the claws scratching his body... but the brutal *beep* is no doubt fake...
We see in Bob Flanagan's documentary his death (well almost) and we don't see two huge holes where his nipples use to be!

Dead but warm?

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dont worry about it. its not that bad.

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Agree with nascain, would you sacrifice your nipples for a NIN video?
Besides, he is completely ripped open towards the end (and I don't mean just the really deep cuts), he would have to spend at least a month at rehabilitation...

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I suppose the first cuts probably were real. I saw that on wikipedia and though it was a bit extreme. Grabbing his bollocks and such was really and stuff.

Afterall, he was a supermasochist.

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dude my friend got his nipples ripped off in a wake board accident (he flew off and skidded against ALOT of rocks) and they grew back in 2 weeks and its looked like nothing had happened other than a few scars on his chest, its not an urban legend it is all real except for his death and thats a fact wikipedia is just stupid

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Not really.
Wikipedia's exact wording is (as of Dec 19, 2006),
"An infamous urban legend exists that the torture footage is real, except for the final killing of Flanagan."
Urban legend meaning (generally... it just might not be so in this case) that it's not real.

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Yep, he happens to be a very famous masochist. It comes down to this. Every "painful" thing that happens to his body that doesn't actually draw blood was real. The board did smack his genitals, while the blood gushing out was fake, and so on. Flanagan died recently, IIRC. And the reason he did the masochism was due to his cystic fibrosis. He wasn't a perverted man, his illness just caused him to seek out new venues of feeling. And his self-torturous acts were the extremes of that need to feel.

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I don't know about recently.... He died in 1996.

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