I found this just...strange, call me brainwashed by cultural standards, idk.
From TeddyHilton.com:
Malcom Brenner has written Wet Goddess, a story about a man's nine-month sexual relationship with a dolphin.
The story he wrote is quite similar to his own relationship with Ruby.
Back in 1970, he began dating a dolphin named Ruby in the his early 20s. As a sophomore at New College of Florida in Sarasota, he was hired to photograph dolphins for a children's book. Through this employment, he was given free access to the amusement park where Ruby resided.
And according to Malcom, Ruby was one aggressive flipper. SHE courted HIM!
Malcom explains his story:
[In the beginning,] she became more and more aggressive. She would thrust herself against me. I found that extraordinarily erotic. It's like being with a tiger or a bear. This is an animal that could kill you in two seconds if it wanted to.
(Nine months into their relationship, she was taken to an oceanarium in Mississippi.)
[After she moved,] I had every intention of going to visit [her] when I got back to the South, but it didn't work out that way. I learned the hard way that dolphins are chattel, and much more emotionally vulnerable than I had ever imagined.
(Nine months after she moved, Ruby died.)
I had a vivid dream at the time about dolphins dying in a dark environment which proved to be remarkably similar to the oceanarium where she actually died.
Some people find it hard to imagine that I wasn't abusing the animal. hey didn't see me interacting with the dolphin. They weren't there. These creatures basically have free will.
What is repulsive about a relationship where both partners feel and express love for each other? I know what I'm talking about here because after we made love, the dolphin put her snout on my shoulder, embraced me with her flippers and we stared into each others' eyes for about a minute.
This was not some dog trying to hump my leg, okay. This was a 400-lb. wild-born female dolphin. She was an awesome creature.
As self-aware mammals, dolphins are capable of making profound emotional attachments to other dolphins and, apparently, to selected humans as well. A dolphin can die of loneliness, of a broken heart, of separation anxiety.
I wrote this book for dolphins because we are mistreating these animals by keeping them in captivity. We should be attempting to communicate with them and treating them with more respect and dignity.
Under the right circumstances I would [consider another dolphin relationship] if I had the energy for it. I'm 40 years older now.
Malcolm married twice after Ruby, and neither wife objected his affair. In fact, his daughter from the first marriage actually designed the book's cover.
Malcolm stands by his decisions, as they were legal at the time, and continues selling copies of Wet Goddess.
From TeddyHilton.com:
Malcom Brenner has written Wet Goddess, a story about a man's nine-month sexual relationship with a dolphin.
The story he wrote is quite similar to his own relationship with Ruby.
Back in 1970, he began dating a dolphin named Ruby in the his early 20s. As a sophomore at New College of Florida in Sarasota, he was hired to photograph dolphins for a children's book. Through this employment, he was given free access to the amusement park where Ruby resided.
And according to Malcom, Ruby was one aggressive flipper. SHE courted HIM!
Malcom explains his story:
[In the beginning,] she became more and more aggressive. She would thrust herself against me. I found that extraordinarily erotic. It's like being with a tiger or a bear. This is an animal that could kill you in two seconds if it wanted to.
(Nine months into their relationship, she was taken to an oceanarium in Mississippi.)
[After she moved,] I had every intention of going to visit [her] when I got back to the South, but it didn't work out that way. I learned the hard way that dolphins are chattel, and much more emotionally vulnerable than I had ever imagined.
(Nine months after she moved, Ruby died.)
I had a vivid dream at the time about dolphins dying in a dark environment which proved to be remarkably similar to the oceanarium where she actually died.
Some people find it hard to imagine that I wasn't abusing the animal. hey didn't see me interacting with the dolphin. They weren't there. These creatures basically have free will.
What is repulsive about a relationship where both partners feel and express love for each other? I know what I'm talking about here because after we made love, the dolphin put her snout on my shoulder, embraced me with her flippers and we stared into each others' eyes for about a minute.
This was not some dog trying to hump my leg, okay. This was a 400-lb. wild-born female dolphin. She was an awesome creature.
As self-aware mammals, dolphins are capable of making profound emotional attachments to other dolphins and, apparently, to selected humans as well. A dolphin can die of loneliness, of a broken heart, of separation anxiety.
I wrote this book for dolphins because we are mistreating these animals by keeping them in captivity. We should be attempting to communicate with them and treating them with more respect and dignity.
Under the right circumstances I would [consider another dolphin relationship] if I had the energy for it. I'm 40 years older now.
Malcolm stands by his decisions, as they were legal at the time, and continues selling copies of Wet Goddess.
