Donkey show
A donkey show is a form of live entertainment in which a person (usually a woman) performs sexual acts with a donkey. It is common for taxi drivers in Ciudad Juarez, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to offer tourists a ride to see a "donkey show." Donkey shows are performed (or have been performed) in the red light districts of each of these cities. The primary purpose of such shows is to entice tourists to drink copious amounts of alcohol while waiting for the show to begin. In most instances, an actual donkey show will be performed, but patrons may need to wait until the crowd size is considered large enough to begin the show (and liquor sales have been sufficient). On the rare occasion, the show might not be performed and the disgruntled patrons eventually leave. Also, there have been reports of some tourists (especially those traveling alone) being offered rides to see such shows, and instead are taken to remote locations to be robbed.
Description
The typical format of a donkey show as presented in the Boy's Town of Nuevo Laredo involves relatively docile donkeys that are prominently displayed at the entrance to a bar. The actual donkey show may occur 4-5 times per night (on weekends) and depends on there being a sufficiently large audience in attendance. In preparation for a show, two waiters will collect the donkey, bring it on stage and turn the donkey on its back, holding its legs up vertically. The performer/stripper will begin by performing oral sex on the donkey. She will then straddle the donkey such that their genitalia are in contact and she will spend several minutes rubbing their organs together. Actual penetration does not always occur as it is the choice of the performer (often depending on how much money has been collected in tips from the patrons). The whole routine may last from five to fifteen minutes.
The donkey show is one of several types of live sex shows presented in Mexican Boy's Towns. Other shows include the "Banana Show" (where a stripper performs banana insertion), the "Candle Show" (candle insertion), the "Lesbian Show", the Monkey Show (where a waiter dressed in a gorilla suit has sex with a stripper), and a "Sex Show" (where patrons are invited on stage to have sex with the stripper free of charge). Generally, bars with shows only offer one or two types of performances. In other words, they tend to specialize. For example, one particular bar may offer Banana and Monkey shows, while another has Candle and Lesbian shows, etc. To be clear, most bars in the various Boy's Towns along the border do not offer such explicit shows. Instead, most just offer standard strip shows.[1][2]
Pop culture references
- Rock band Raq has a song called "Welcome to the Donkey Show."
- Seen in the 2007 Ben Stiller movie, The Heartbreak Kid.
- Seen in the 1984 Tom Hanks movie, Bachelor Party. [3]
- In the film The 40 Year Old Virgin, Seth Rogen's character describes a similar show with a horse used instead of a donkey. [4]
- In the film Suspect Zero, a flashback sequence involving Aaron Eckhart's character in Mexico contains imagery of a Mexican woman with a mule. [5]
- In the TV show Mind of Mencia, featuring comedian Carlos Mencia, he offers comedic advice for college students going to Tijuana for spring break and warns them to avoid the "donkey shows", saying "Holy shit! There's a donkey bangin' a chick!"
- In the TV show Strangers with Candy, Jerri speaks nostalgically of her performances with a donkey named Ramone.[6]
- In an episode of The O.C., the kids all go to Tijuana. It is implied that upperclassmen at Harbor School force freshmen to watch a donkey show. In a later episode, Julie Cooper said that Seth Cohen "wasn't the donkey show type", in reference to a trip to Mexico.[7] In that same episode, Kaitlin Cooper asks "What is a donkey show?" [citation needed]
- In the 2006 film Clerks II, a donkey show was performed in a fast food restaurant as a going-away present for Dante Hicks. [8]. The film references Bachelor Party, but it is also a reference to a running joke about donkey shows in one of Kevin Smith's previous films, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which was edited out of the final cut of the film.
- In the Veronica Mars episode "Witchita Linebacker" (Season 3, Episode 3), the character Logan Echolls says he opted out of a trip to Mexico because he "always feels bad for those poor donkeys."[9]
- In the Drawn Together episode "Mexican't Buy Me Love", Toot Braunstein puts on a donkey show in which a donkey refuses her advances. [10]
- In the Scrubs episode "My Fallen Idol" Dr. Kelso invites JD and Turk to a donkey show, which they politely decline despite Kelso's assurances that the show is "really quite tasteful." [11]
- The Bob & Tom Show produced an album titled "Donkey Show." [12]
- The film Death to Smoochy originally included a scene intended as prelude to an (unshown) donkey show, but the Ratings Board forced its removal. [13]
- Huntington Beach punk rock band Guttermouth have a song titled "Lucky the Donkey" on their album Musical Monkey. The song is about lead singer Mark Adkins' mother having sexual intercourse with a donkey while in Mexico.
- The American jam band moe. has a song that appears from time to time in their live shows titled, "Tijuana Donkey Show." It appears on their 2007 live album Warts and All: Volume 5.
- In the video game Grand Theft Auto, a side mission includes retrieving a magazine featuring donkey pornography for El Burro of the Diablo street gang.
- An episode of Two and a Half Men titled "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro" contains several references to a donkey show that the characters have apparently seen.
- The Donkey Show, an off-Broadway play based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream set in a disco with many travesty roles. Nick Bottom is played by twins in afros who become two halves of a donkey. The climax of the show has Titania and Bottom press crotches (clothed), followed by an immediate blackout and the resolution of the play. [1] NY Times review
- Punk band Deemed Useless has a song called "Donkey Show". The song is used as a metaphor for life.
- Alt-Country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has a song called "Boys Town" off his "Lost Bound Rails" album that has its characters going to the Corona Club to see the donkey show for "a handful of pesos."
- On House (TV series) episode entitled "It's a Wonderful Lie" (Season 4, Episode 10), Dr. House asks his patient whom he believes is a prostitute if she could have gotten a rash from being in a donkey show. It is later reveled that the girl was part of a living nativity scene in which she rode a donkey, although it is not made clear whether or not she is a prostitute.
See also
References
- ↑ Curtis, James R., and Arreola, Daniel D. 1991a.Zonas de Tolerancia on the Northern Mexican Border. Geographical Review. 81(3):333-346.
- ↑ Stevenson, Robert J., La Zona in Transition: Bordertown Prostitution in Frontier City, Mexico (1975). Unpublished M.A. thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook. This project has been expanded and was published as A Mexican Border Prostitution Community During the Late Vietnam Era: La Zona. Edwin Mellen Press. New York. 2005. Detailed maps of the site, the region, and photographs (circa 1972) appear in Appendix A.
- ↑ http://www.sltrib.com/healthscience/ci_4730772
- ↑ http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=1362
- ↑ http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/suspect_zero.html
- ↑ http://www.jerriblank.com/swcmisc.html
- ↑ http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/pop/?frames=n;read=22644&expand=1
- ↑ http://www.sltrib.com/healthscience/ci_4730772
- ↑ http://p092.ezboard.com/flvvmfrm63.showMessage?topicID=3.topic
- ↑ http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/drawn_together/videos/season_3/index.jhtml
- ↑ http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-fallen-idol/episode/706750/trivia.html
- ↑ http://www.bobandtomstore.com/frames/store_2004/donkey_show/donkeyshow.htm
- ↑ Death to Smoochie
