In Popular Culture
Kenyon became the subject of Frank Zappa's song "The Illinois Enema Bandit", first released on Zappa in New York. Jazz composer Henry Threadgill recorded "Salute to the Enema Bandit" on the 1986 album Air Show No. 1. He was also the inspiration for the 1976 adult film Water Power starring Jamie Gillis (later reissued as Enema Bandit). The term "enema bandit" came into wider use following the incidents. In the 1974 novel The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin, the protagonist Jane Clifford, a professor in a Midwestern university town, fears the Enema Bandit, who represents her fears of losing control of her life.
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