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this
is florida land of flowers
orange groves beaches gun fights
riding porpoises i first discovered
florida land as a tourist
being taken there by my parents in the
mid-1960s i remember shooting some home movies
movies
seeing the dolphins splashing around in
their pool the indian fire eater
the western shootout all the tacky
treats they had there
florida land was one of the last
vestiges of old florida which has now
basically completely disappeared it's
the porpoise pool
and what a great playmate he's found the
dolphin show
entailed a lot of things that you don't
see in dolphin shows anymore
like dolphins wearing floppy hats or
dressing up in hula hoops
my name is malcolm j brenner and this is
the story of how i fell in love with
[Music]
i've worked as a freelance writer
photographer and journalist
for most of my career probably the most
productive part of my career was the 10
years i spent
in new mexico reporting on the navajo
nation mostly for border town newspapers
it was the early 70s when i was going to
new college i was asked
by a woman writer to take some
photographs to illustrate
a book that she was going to write about
the dolphins at florida land
it was my first professional gig really
as a freelance photographer
i met the author at her house in sarasota
sarasota
and we took her boat down to florida
land when we got out of the boat we were
standing on the dock
looking down at this dolphin she stared
up at us and
we stared down at her and the writer
said this is dolly
malcolm meet dolly dolly meet malcolm
there were no
intimations that uh this dolphin and i
would become lovers eventually
i was fascinated i'd never been that
close to a dolphin before
i was enormously interested i slipped
into the water with her
she wouldn't come anywhere near me of
course dolphins are usually
suspicious of strange people she stayed
on the other side of the pen
and then the assistant trainer began
urging me to swim out
to to take the first move you know to be
bold you know
so i struck out to the middle of the pen
and sort of chased her around for a while
while
and finally uh we ended up in the
shallows very slowly she
came to the point where i could reach
out and touch her i started rubbing her
forehead she seemed to enjoy that
so i started rubbing her along her back
and working my way towards her flukes
her tail
and as i was rubbing her and moving my
hand towards her tail
dolly was slowly rolling around her long axis
axis
so that by the time that i got midway
down her body i was rubbing her belly
instead of rubbing her back
and she swam forward a little bit so
that i was rubbing her genital slit
and then she stopped moving and i
thought oh this is embarrassing
i just didn't think that that was the
kind of show that uh you know parents
would be bringing their
kids to florida land to see [Music]
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she was kept in the sea level pens
because she was at the time the only dolphin
dolphin
outside of the u.s navy that was trained
to work in open water
her part of the show was to swim along
with a riverboat in the intercoastal waterway
waterway
and jump for fish which her trainer
would be holding on the upper deck of
this riverboat
was a really incredible performance [Music]
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when i would get on the water with her
she would approach me
unafraid she would solicit attention i
never fed her
i never gave her any kind of food
rewards her courtship
as it progressed got more vigorous and intense
intense
she would rub her genital slit against
me and
if i tried to push her away she would
get very angry with me
one time when she wanted to masturbate
on my foot
and i wouldn't let her she threw herself
on top of me
and pushed me down to the 12-foot bottom
of the pool
those were the those were the tactics
that she was trying on me at first
eventually she seemed to get the message
that that wasn't going to work
she became very gentle she might open
her jaws
and run her teeth very gently along my
arm or my leg
which produced an amazingly erotic
feeling to me
which i think was her way of saying to me
me
look i'm i'm very strong but i'm not
going to harm you [Music]
i knew at that time that there was
something different about my sexuality
that it wasn't normal like other guys
i wanted desperately to be normal to
have a
relationship with a woman i first
realized i was sexually attracted to
animals when my father took me to see a
walt disney movie called the shaggy dog
and strangely enough i found myself
getting an erection at five years old
after that i was aware that there was
something different about my sexuality
zoophilia is greek for lover of animals
a zoophile is someone in contrast to a
bestialist who might just have sex with
an animal and walk away
a zoophile is somebody who has tender or
caring emotions
for their animal partner my first sexual
encounter with an animal
came when i was about 11 or 12. i tried
to have sex with the family dog which
was a miniature poodle named miss clavel
the dog was in heat so i naively assumed that
that
since she was having sex with a stud dog
she would be willing to have sex with me
which she wasn't was an embarrassing
incident it was not very romantic
after that i felt basically unclean i
felt like i wanted to take a bath
i wondered what was wrong with me why i
wasn't having normal
male desires for women it made me feel
very embarrassed
it made me feel abnormal made me feel
like i wasn't one of the guys you know
because the other guys would be telling
dirty jokes about girls
and i just couldn't care
whatever i was getting from the dolphin seemed
seemed
very fulfilling very rewarding it was
like she was the only female who was
really paying any attention to me
and that made a tremendous amount of
at one point on a particularly cold day
when everybody else was inside the
trainer's hut
i found myself thinking this dolphin's
been courting me
i could have sex with her so
i tried she was passive she lay in the
water and let me try to penetrate her
and i couldn't do it
the water was too cold i felt very nervous
nervous
i felt like we were going to be
i don't know if anybody is born a zoophile
zoophile
i think that what made me a zoophile was
the very intense
physical and sexual abuse i suffered at
the hands
of a psychiatrist and my youth
intense prodding probing pushing
squeezing of my musculature he performed
fellatio on me when i was about five
years old
and i have a very vivid memory of
something being forced up my anus
between this man's inappropriate
sexual molestation of me and my mother
being kind of a cold distant character
i think i found animals to be a safe
and secure repository if you will for my
sexual desires 150 years ago
black people were considered a
degenerate subspecies of the human being
and at the time messagination was a
crime in many states
as today interspecies sex or bestiality
is a crime in many states and i'm hoping
that in a more enlightened future
zoophilia will be no more regarded as controversial
controversial
i successfully made love with dolly the last
last
visit to the park that i made the park
had been closed down
the property had been sold off the whole
thing was going to be developed into a
housing complex
all the dolphins had been shipped out
except for dolly and one male dolphin
they were in a pool together i went down
to the park that day without any real
idea whether i was going to be able to
make love to her or not
but just hoping that that would happen we
we
started a very long courtship that
lasted about half an hour frankly it was
a little difficult to make love with her
there's no backstop in the water it's a
frictionless environment
she was very cooperative she was very gentle
gentle
she was enormously erotic we played
games we had to try
several different positions before we
found one that worked which was her
floating horizontal in the water
and me being vertical coming into her
from the side that way
and that seemed to work a whole lot
better because i could hold onto her
back with one hand
and hold and guide my penis with the
other hand so it didn't slip out of her
because of the fact that they live in
the water the female dolphins
internal genitalia is a little more
complicated than a woman's
they have some waterproofing features in
there that you might describe as valves almost
almost
as we started making love i felt this
just intense uh
sense of merging with her on every level emotionally
emotionally
mentally physically
spiritually it's really like we stopped being
being
two individual creatures and became one creature
creature
that was making love with itself i've never
never
experienced such
intense intimacy with anyone
it felt transcendental it felt cosmic
as i climaxed
dolly groaned she made a
series of three groans in a rising
cadence and that led me to believe that
she had also experienced an orgasm
and i pulled out of her and
swam over to the wire fence that
encircled the pool
and dolly swam up to me she laid her
snout on my shoulder
she embraced me with her flippers and we
just stared into each other's eyes for a
well when other people claim that i must
have raped the dolphin
my response is that you can't outswim a
dolphin in the water
michael phelps could not outswim a
dolphin in the water dolphin in the
water is in its element
we spent half an hour in courtship if it
had been raped it would have
been easier for her to stay in the pen
where the male dolphin would have
protected her from me
instead she chose to
squeeze between a couple of boards and
get into another pen where we had some privacy
privacy
what she ended up wanting to do was make
love with me their claim
that this was rape is based on a whole
bunch of fallacies
i couldn't find any moral or ethical
i think what may have harmed her was
that we both developed an emotional attachment
attachment
in fact i think it's fair to say that if
i hadn't been involved with dolly
if i hadn't been in love with dolly i
never would have bothered to write a
book about the experience
if this was just some farm boy with a
goat i'm not sure that's a
worthwhile story i'm pretty convinced
that dolly was also in love with me just
from the way she behaved
i'm convinced that we were in love with
excuse me what happened to dolly after
our relationship
was very sad one morning in june i woke
up from this horrible nightmare
that involved dying dolphins trapped in
a very dark
basement-like setting i woke up i
literally couldn't breathe
my heart felt like it had stopped
beating i was talking with a relative of
the woman writers
and he told me that dolly had died
i felt like the breath had stopped in my lungs
lungs
later on when i got a vehicle i drove to mississippi
mississippi
and explored the oceanarium where she died
died
i realized there was just an enormous
number of similarities
between the oceanarium and my dream
her trainer told me that she stopped
feeding and then one morning he just
came out and found her dead on the
bottom of the pen
what you have to understand is that a
dolphin's breathing is voluntary
every breath a dolphin takes it thinks
about it's not like human breathing
where if we go unconscious we keep breathing
breathing
the dolphin can go into a funk and uh
just stop breathing
and that is apparently what happened to
her she committed suicide
i do feel a lot of responsibility for
dolly's death i feel like emotionally i
should have been there for her
i feel like in a sense i abandoned her
because i was too concerned about
the feelings of weirdness i was having i
was very much in love with dolly
i think i was probably more in love with
dolly than i've been with anyone else in
my life
and less able to be aware of it at the time
time
just because of the strangeness of it [Music]
would i change being a zoophile
i don't know what i would change
[Music] do
do [Music]
[Music] so
so [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
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