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A man who had sex with a dolphin in a year-long affair says it only happened because SHE seduced him.

In a new documentary called Dolphin Lover, Malcolm Brenner, 63, says he fell for Dolly after the aquatic animal made advances.

And Brenner says she made her intentions quite clear.

In the 15 minute film he says: "I started rubbing her along her back, working my way to 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."

(Image: Coffee and Celluloid Productions)

Things then get a bit graphic and an animation of what it's like to have sex with a dolphin is played to viewers in case they are finding it too hard to imagine, according to Fusion.

At the time of the 'relationship' in 1971, Brenner was a photographer and had access to the pool at the former theme park in Sarasota Florida, where he lived.

Brenner has previously talked about his encounter in a novel called Wet Goddess.

Speaking to the Mirror last summer, he said: "There's something quite transcendental about making love with a dolphin.

(Image: Jim Hamlin)

"I was given free access to the dolphins and I became friends with her by going swimming with her. She was very special.

"She announced her intentions to me by positioning herself so I was rubbing against her.

"At first I discouraged her, I wasn't interested. After some time I thought 'if this was a woman would I come up with these rationalisations and excuses'?

"It was when the park was closing that we successfully eluded the male dolphin so we could spend some time alone.

(Image: Coffee and Celluloid Productions)

"I called it a relationship because that's what it was. When she died it made me feel terrible and I fell into a depression which lasted five years."

Dolly was moved away when the park closed nine months after she and Malcolm had first met.

Malcolm, from Punta Garda, Florida, believes her death a short time later was a case of suicide and that she voluntarily stopped breathing.

The relationship didn't break any laws as bestiality was only banned in Florida 2011.

Malcolm has since been married twice but also describes himself as a 'zoophile' and says he has had previous sexual experiences with a dog.

His admission comes after a woman revealed she had sex with a male dolphin as part of a scientific study.

Margaret Howe Lovatt revealed how in the 60s she was part of a Nasa-funded experiment to teach the mammals how to speak English and she bonded with one called Peter - who would rub himself up against her.

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She said: "I wasn't uncomfortable - as long as it wasn't too rough. In the beginning I would put him on the elevator and say you go play with the girls for a day."

Malcolm's newest documentary comes in a week when a British man was cleared of having sex with a Shetland pony, but jailed for four years for outraging public decency.

Alan Barnfield was accused of having sex with a pony called Sky in a field near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in 2012.

The judge in the case said he believed the jury had come to their verdicts because it believed a sexual incident with the animal took place in the field, but could not be sure that actual sexual intercourse had occurred.

Dolphin Lover received an Honorable Mention from the jury at Slamdance Film Festival

Find out more about Dolphin Lover the film here