Bodil Joensen
Bodil Joensen or Bodil Jørgensen (1944-1985) was a Danish pornographic actor born in the village Hundige near Copenhagen. Bodil was violently raped as a girl by a stranger in a railway station. On returning home to tell her mother, she was beaten and responded with a vow to sleep with boars. Her career in pornography began at age 17 when she appeared in "light fetish" pornography before establishing herself in the bestiality subgenre. She starred in a number of feature films and shorts, in which she and other actors had sex with various animal species.
She drew special attention 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. The prototypical film of this type is A Summer Day (1970) by Shinkichi Tajiri, showing her with animals on her estate to the tune of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. What made her famous worldwide, however, was the unusual nature of the sexual acts she performed. In 1981 she went to prison for 30 days for animal abuse following a change in Denmarks laws, however this was due to the housing conditions of animals she kept rather than any sexual crimes.
After 1972 she experienced a sharp deterioration, undergoing very obvious physical and psychological changes, first working as a "live show" and "sexual role play" girl and then ending up in straight street prostitution. Years after her final interview [1] in 1980, her fate is still uncertain, with many believing her to have committed suicide in the early 1980s. However, in his essay "Dead Famous" [2] in the book Fleshpot (ISBN 1-900-486-121), Jack Stevenson finds no hard evidence of the 'suicide' or death of Bodil Joensen as of 6 July 2005, and in the program "The Search For Animal Farm", which was screened on UK Channel 4 on the 20th of April 2006 it was stated by a close friend of Bodil's that she died on January 3, 1985 from cirrhosis of the liver. The program included footage of her gravestone.
