"His only stipulation was that we didn't use the Flipper theme song in the movie," Daoud told me.Īlthough Brenner had written a fictional version of his and Dolly's relationship in 2009, he'd never openly talked about how exactly he did the deed. Soon he and Daoud met up with Brenner on Florida's west coast and conducted an extensive four-hour interview that covered essentially his entire life. "I was taken aback equally by what had happened and by his willingness to talk about it." "I stopped looking for things to do and started reading the story," he told me. Tabsch first became interested in Brenner when he was in San Francisco in 2013 looking for entertainment options and an alt weekly story about the dolphin lover grabbed his eye. His zoophilia started in earnest a few years later when he was 11 or 12, Brenner had sex with the family poodle, although he says he felt dirty afterward.ĭolly the dolphin was trained to ride along this boat and jump for fish. He got an erection even though he was only five, which he now calls a defining moment of his life. Around the same time, his dad took him to see a Disney film called The Shaggy Dog. As a child, he says, he was molested by his psychologist. In his telling, Brenner has always been attracted to animals. "They don't have any inhibitions about expressing it, whereas other animals are passive, or at least just receptive." "Female dolphins are very assertive about their sexuality," Brenner told me. When he wouldn't give her what she wanted, Dolly would retaliate by pushing him 12 feet underwater. Later, she started rubbing her teeth on the photographer's arm in what he describes as an erotic way. Once, as he was rubbing her back, Dolly flipped over to present her genital slit.
She eventually came around, says Brenner, who photographed the dolphin for nine months. Soon, however, he was sidetracked by the dolphin.ĭolly swam to the other side of the tank when the unfamiliar human with horn-rimmed glasses and shoulder-length curls first jumped in. He was supposed to take pictures for a book about Sarasota's Floridaland-one of those hokey roadside attractions that populated the Sunshine State before multimillion-dollar theme parks pushed them out.
The two met in 1970 when the New College of Florida student was on his first freelance photography assignment.
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