Donkey show

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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 supposed type of live sex show 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> 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.

[[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>

As late as 2008, they have been mentioned as a reason to visit Tijuana, and naive tourists may seek them out.<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>

The "donkey show" myth has been portrayed in several American films, 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 1981 book ''New West'', a Tijuana taxi driver offers 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>

In [[Mark Winegardner]]'s 2005 book ''[[The Godfather Returns]]'', set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, [[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>

In 2005 the term is claimed to be 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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