Donkey show

This article is about a type of live sex show. For the comedy album by The Bob & Tom Show, see Donkey Show. For the adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, see The Donkey Show (musical).

A donkey show is a type of live sex show in which a woman engages in bestiality with a donkey,^[1][2] which, according to urban legend and some works of fiction, were once performed in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, particularly in the mid-20th century.

A bar in Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico advertising a nightly "donkey's show"

Gustavo Arellano, in his Ask a Mexican column, argues that such donkey shows are not real.^[3]

As late as 2008, they have been mentioned as a reason to visit Tijuana, and naive tourists may seek them out.^[4]

In popular culture

The "donkey show" has been portrayed or alluded to in several American films, including The Godfather Part II (1974),Losin' It (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), The 40-Year Old Virgin (2005), Clerks II (2006), Scrubs (2006 S5E21), The Heartbreak Kid (2007), and Cake (2014).^{[citation needed]}, and Me Time (2022) It also gives its name and theme to The Donkey Show, a musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream that climaxes with Bottom (two women in a donkey suit) lowering the crotch area onto the pelvis area of Titania, who wears only boots, a thong, and butterfly pasties. A donkey show is also a minor plot element in the House episode "It's a Wonderful Lie" in which the title character diagnoses a prostitute as part of his clinic duties.

In 2005, the term is claimed to be used to describe a situation that has become a "complete mess", for example the government and the news media outlets.^[5]

See also

• Ping pong show

References

1. "Foreign Affairs". Los Angeles Magazine. Vol. 45, no. 6. June 1, 2000. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 'the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling
2. Jim Dawson (1999). Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. ISBN 1-58008-011-1. There was a time when guys would boast of having seen a girl-and-donkey show in Tijuana, Mexico.
3. Arellano, Gustavo (2014-10-16). "¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico?". OC Weekly. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
4. Alejandro L. Madrid, Alejandro Luis Madrid-González (2008). "Where's the Donkey Show, Mr. Mariachi? Reterritorialing TJ". Nor-tec rifa!: electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world. Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press US. pp. 16, 115, 145, 217 (footnote 2), 220 (footnote 41). ISBN 9780195342628.
5. Jonathon Green (2005). Cassell's dictionary of slang. Sterling Publishing Company. ISBN 9780304366361. Retrieved 2010-05-21.