Bodil Joensen

Bodil Joensen (born September 25, 1944 in Hundige , Denmark , † January 3, 1985 in Copenhagen , Denmark) was a Danish porn actress . She gained notoriety through a variety of pornographic films in which she practiced zoophilia . She also ran a small cattle farm . As the demand for her films decreased, she became impoverished and became addicted to alcohol , making it impossible for her to continue caring for her animals, and died a few years later.

First years

Bodil Joensen grew up in Hundige, a suburb of Copenhagen , where she was born. Her mother was a devout Christian who was prone to violence against her daughter, her father a soldier. When Joensen was 12 years old, her mother suspected that she had been raped by a stranger, but she denied it. Her mother blamed her for the alleged rape she had suffered and punished her violently, whereupon she announced that she would become sexually active with boars as revenge . When she subsequently developed an affection for animals , she began a romantic and sexual relationship with her dog , whose photo she carried in a locket until her death.

After Joensen left her parents' home at the age of 15, she started working on a farm. Gunnar Nielsen, the farmer there, described her fascination with the act of covering animals, which she said she was happy to help with. She later started her own breeding business, where she became known for her ability to work with aggressive animals such as boars. However, due to rumors that were spread especially by the women farmers in the area due to their jealousy of Joensen as a young, single woman in the agricultural sector, their business perished.

Career in pornography

At the age of 17, during the demise of her breeding business and in an attempt to continue to finance her animals and her home, she began her career in pornography with appearances in comparatively harmless fetish films. When she was 25, she turned to zoophile films, working, for example, for production company Color Climax Corporation and producer Ole Ege . Between 1969 and 1972 she appeared in more than 40 films. She also had a column in Screw magazine answering questions from readers.

As a porn actress, Bodil Joensen gained special attention worldwide for her sexual activity with boars, particularly in live performances and appearances in films made on her farm. The films combined the special liberality of Danish society at the time with Scandinavian rustic rustic style.

At this time, the documentary Bodil Joensen - en sommerdag juli 1970 (“A summer day in July 1970”) by Shinkichi Tajiri was made . It depicts their life with their animals on their farm, the care of the animals, their affection for them and their sexual activity. The film was awarded the Grand Prize of the Amsterdam Wet Dream Film Festival in 1970. This award made Joensen a celebrity on the scene and drew the attention of other documentary filmmakers. According to her biography, her animals at that time included two rabbits , seven dogs , a dozen pigs , several cats , a guinea pig , a mare and the black stallion Dreamlight. In her biography she is described as a warm-hearted, nature-loving person and her relationship with animals as an erotic love game.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Joensen managed to run her farm in an economically sustainable manner and to live there with her daughter, who was born in 1972, and her partner. Visits by sex tourists , who were allowed to make private films with Joensen's animals, brought financial support . Friends of the time describe their exploitation by visitors who only looked for pornography there and did not value Joensen's acquaintance. The incipient rejection from her neighborhood forced her to move several times. When the interest of the Danish pornography industry changed, Joensen failed to adapt her pornography activities, and her income fell away. She deteriorated physically and mentally and developed depression . Until 1980, their income continued to decline and their debts grew; their only source of income was unambitious, small-scale daily live shows. Joensen described the death of her German shepherd Spot, who had been a close friend to her, as an additional trigger for her decline ; she started taking sedatives and later drinking and eating in excess.

Decline and death

When Joensen became addicted to alcohol , she became less and less able to look after her animals. After a change in the law in 1981 was due to neglect of animals to a term of imprisonment sentenced 30 days. As a result, their animals were euthanized . After her release, she sought salvation in street prostitution . In 1980 she withdrew from the public eye. She died in 1985 at the age of 40, according to a close friend of hers , of cirrhosis of the liver , but many people suspect that she died of suicide .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} The Real Animal Farm. The Dark Side of Porn , Season 2, Episode 5. Documentary series on Channel 4 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Zoo porn stars: Bodil.