Editing Bodil Joensen (section)

==Early life==
The daughter of a devout Christian mother and an absentee military father, Joensen grew up in the Copenhagen suburb of Hundige. Her mother was often physically abusive, sometimes violently so, and would whip her. At the age of 12, her mother suspected her of having been raped by a stranger in a railway station<ref name="AF">The source for information on her pre-porn career is the Channel 4 documentary ''Dark Side of Porn,'' in its study of ''Animal Farm.''</ref> — her Danish biography and 1980s interview say that they "just talked" or that she was "nearly raped", but her mother believed that she had actually been raped.<ref name="danishbio">Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120216201341/http://alldogs.xtremebeast.com/bodil/bio.html.</ref> On returning home to tell her mother, she was beaten and blamed for the incident. Seeking a means to retaliate, she vowed to her mother that when she grew up she would have sex with boars, commenting in an interview that her mother was "so shocked, she thought I was allied to the Devil".<ref name="AF" /> Turning to [[Zoophilia|animals]] for affection, her dog became her best friend, companion and lover, and she wore a locket containing his picture for the rest of her life.<ref name="AF"/>

Initially, after leaving home at 15, Joensen found work on a farm in a conservative area of Denmark. Her landlord, the farmer Gunnar Nielsen, commented, "She was passionate about animals." He added that she was entranced by the sight of animals breeding, an activity she stated she found "wonderful" to help with. She later left to set up her own breeding farm, "Insemination Central," which became popular for her ability to handle aggressive animals such as boars, and was then ruined by country gossip, spread principally by farmers' wives who were unhappy at the prospect of their husbands working with a young single girl on farm business. Friends, such as Johan Kirk, commented that she "was never given much of a chance" by such people. She commented later, "Nine out of ten men wanted to fuck me, and their wives hated me."<ref name="AF"/>