Editing Bodil Joensen (section)

==Pornography career==
Launched in the context of a failing business and attempts to remain solvent in order to keep her livestock and home, her career in pornography began in 1962 at age 17, when she appeared in "light fetish" pornography, before establishing herself in the [[bestiality]] subgenre in 1969 at around age 25. She starred in a number of feature films and shorts for companies such as Color Climax Corporation, as well as for the pornographer Ole Ege, in which she and other actors had sex with various animal species. Between 1969 and 1972, she starred with animals in over 40 movies.<ref name="AF"/>

The movie ''A Summer's Day'' (1971) was released in the U.S. as ''Animal Lover'' (1970). She wrote a column answering readers' letters in ''SCREW'' magazine.<ref>"Ask Bodil," ''SCREW'', March 11, 1974. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121014313/https://40.media.tumblr.com/bbb021113e86cde0667c07fbb18ffe87/tumblr_n8etq1FEdc1sbtct0o2_1280.jpg|date=2015-01-21}}. Retrieved on 2015-01-15 from https://40.media.tumblr.com/bbb021113e86cde0667c07fbb18ffe87/tumblr_n8etq1FEdc1sbtct0o2_1280.jpg.</ref>

In this genre, Joensen drew special attention worldwide as the ''Boar Girl'', a reputation earned from her live performances with swine, as well as her participation in films shot with pigs on her own breeding centre. The movies she appeared in combined a peculiar blend of the "tolerant contemporary Danish society" image and Scandinavian rustic nostalgia. Her Danish biography comments of her domestic life: <blockquote>"The scene is classic Rabelaisian more than anything else, harkening back to the Middle Ages when people and their animals often did live in the same house."<ref name="danishbio"/></blockquote>

The award-winning documentary ''Bodil Joensen - en sommerdag juli 1970'' (1970), by Shinkichi Tajiri, shows her living with her animals on her farm during this era, including their care, her affection for them, and her sexual life, entirely to the tune of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (Pastoral)—an involuntary artistic choice that became necessary when the original soundtrack recordings became unavailable through a gaffe. At the time, she lived with "two rabbits, seven dogs, a dozen pigs, some cats, a guinea pig, a mare and a beautiful black stallion named Dreamlight".<ref name="danishbio"/> Her Danish biographer commented later<ref name="AF"/> that she seemed to be a very open, warm-hearted person, "very at home with nature": <blockquote>"When she plays her erotic game with the dog or [[horse]], it is not only a sexual curiosity, it is an erotic play with animals she loves and who are devoted to her."<ref name="danishbio"/></blockquote> The documentary was the surprising winner of the ''Grand Prize'' of the ''Wet Dream Film Festival'', held in Amsterdam from 26-29 November 1970, where it premiered. Joensen immediately became an underground celebrity, and drew attention from other documentary makers as well as tourists towards her expanding farm.{{fact|date=January 2020}}