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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" has been portrayed in several American films, including ''Losin' It'' (1983), ''Bachelor Party'' (1984), ''The 40-Year Old Virgin'' (2005), [[Cinematography#Clerks 2 (2006)|''Clerks II'' (2006)]], ''The Heartbreak Kid''<!--1:05:06--> (2007), and ''Cake''<!--45:20--> (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|publisher=Ballantine Books|year=2005|quote=|page=[https://archive.org/details/godfatherreturns00wine/page/252 252]|url=https://archive.org/details/godfatherreturns00wine|url-access=registration|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> For example, the Government, and news media outlets. 

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