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Saint John's orphanage in Washington where he was frequently stripped naked along with other boys who would then be whipped and beaten in front of each other by teachers. He eventually came to enjoy physical pain and the communal beatings would often cause erections, for which the other orphans teased himhe youth introduced Fish to such practices as drinking urine and coprophagia

compulsive writer of obscene letters to women whose names he acquired from classified advertisements and matrimonial agencies.

Over a dozen needles Fish self-embedded into his pelvis and perineum.