Donkey show

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{{about|the type of sexual performance|the comedy album by [[The Bob and Tom Show]]|Donkey Show|the adaptation of [[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]|The Donkey Show (musical)}}
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[[File:Donkey-bar.jpg|thumb|A bar in [[Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo]], Mexico advertising a nightly "donkey's show"]]

A '''donkey show''' is a type of sexual performance most often associated with [[Tijuana, Mexico]], in which a woman engages in [[bestiality]] with a [[donkey]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Foreign Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W18EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103 |quote='the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling| volume=45 |issue=6 |work=[[Los Angeles Magazine]] |date=June 1, 2000 |accessdate=2010-04-25 }}</ref><ref name=dawson>{{cite book |author=[[Jim Dawson]] |title=Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart |year=1999 |quote=There was a time when guys would boast of having seen a girl-and-donkey show in Tijuana, Mexico.| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLSXmhudzOQC&pg=PA155 |isbn=1-58008-011-1 }}</ref>

==Description==
Local taxi drivers offer tourists a ride to see a donkey show in the [[red light district]].<ref name=west>{{cite book |title=New West |year=1981 |quote=One of the drivers offered to drive me to a donkey show. In Tijuana's past the donkey show was always rumored to exist| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUIcAQAAIAAJ&q=donkey+show+mexico&dq=donkey+show+mexico&hl=en&ei=KIzUS4PNN8OAlAfoqPHsDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA |isbn= }}</ref> The shows are difficult to verify and may be [[urban legends]], but anecdotal accounts are frequent.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Ethnic, sexual slurs pervade bar |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DP&p_theme=dp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10A9D60C5B674690&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |quote=Although donkey shows in Tijuana and other border towns are impossible to verify, the Internet is rife with anecdotal accounts of brothel bestiality. |work=[[Denver Post]] |date=June 8, 2005 |accessdate=2010-05-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |title=On the Borders |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/110574124.html?dids=110574124:110574124&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+17,+2002&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=On+the+borders&pqatl=google |quote=I did ask Ricardo Lizarraga about Tijuana donkey shows. He laughed. I havent heard the donkey show rumor in years he said. It's like an urban legend|work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 17, 2002 |accessdate=2010-05-21 }}</ref> Author [[Jim Dawson]] writes: "No doubt there are clandestine clubs that have put these sordid floorshows on display, but if every man who claims he actually saw one is telling the truth, there must be a lot of bowlegged women hobbling around Tijuana."<ref name=dawson /> [[Gustavo Arellano]], in his [[¡Ask a Mexican!]] column, argues that donkey shows are not real.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/news/ask-a-mexican-are-donkey-shows-really-a-thing-in-mexico-6432071|title=¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico?|last=Arellano|first=Gustavo|date=2014-10-16|newspaper=OC Weekly|access-date=2017-01-01}}</ref>

The "donkey show" in Tijuana myth is deeply embedded in American film, including ''[[Losin' It]]'' (1983), ''[[Bachelor Party (1984 film)|Bachelor Party]]'' (1984), ''[[The 40-Year Old Virgin]]'' (2005), ''[[Clerks II]]'' (2006), ''[[The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film)|The Heartbreak Kid]]'' (2007), and ''[[Cake (2014 film)|Cake]]'' (2014).{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}

In the 2005 book ''[[The Godfather Returns]]'' written by [[Mark Winegardner]], [[Fredo Corleone]]'s wife Deanna Dunn insists on attending one: "on a whim, they'd headed to Mexico. When they'd gotten there, Deanna Dunn, insisted on going to see a donkey show. ... who thought that watching a donkey fuck a teenage Indian girl was a hoot."<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Mark Winegardner]] |title=The Godfather Returns |year=2005 |publisher= |quote= |page=252 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxnEQ29L2LgC&pg=PA252&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn= }}</ref>

It is occasionally given as a reason to visit Tijuana. From time to time one may come across naive tourists going up and down ''La Coahuila'' street, unsuccessfully trying to find the show.<ref name=alejandro>{{cite book |title= Nor-tec rifa!: electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world |series= Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music |chapter= Where's the Donkey Show, Mr. Mariachi? Reterritorialing TJ|author= Alejandro L. Madrid, Alejandro Luis Madrid-González |edition= illustrated |publisher= Oxford University Press US |year= 2008 |isbn= 9780195342628 |pages= 16, 115, 145, 217 (footnote 2), 220 (footnote 41) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2W6uYsvqroC }}</ref>

More recently the term has been used to describe a situation that has become a "complete mess".<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Jonathon Green]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&pg=PA428&dq=%22donkey+show%22+sex&ei=sqfzS6XUEZXakQSzncnZBw&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22donkey%20show%22%20sex&f=false |title=Cassell's dictionary of slang |accessdate=2010-05-21 |year=2005 |publisher=[[Sterling Publishing Company]] }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ping pong show]]

==References==
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