Donkey show

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

A donkey show is a form of sex-tourism entertainment in Mexico. It is common for taxi drivers in Tijuana,Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Template:City-state, 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 a remote location 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 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 tend to specialize by only offering one or two types of performances. For example, one particular bar may offer Banana and Monkey shows, while another has Candle and Lesbian shows, etc. Most bars in the various Boy's Towns along the border do not offer such explicit shows. Instead, most just offer standard strip shows.

Pop culture references

• Godfather II - Fredo takes Michael and the others to a "donkey show" in Cuba.
• The Boys In The Band (1968) - Bernard teases Emory by asking him if "he still has an act with that donkey in Tijuana?" when this one says he's flying to the West Coast.
• Punk band Guttermouth has a song called "Lucky the Donkey" off of their album, Musical Monkey.
• 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.
• In the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Seth Rogen's character describes a similar show with a horse used instead of a donkey.
• In the film Suspect Zero, a flashback sequence involving Aaron Eckhart's character in Mexico contains imagery of a Mexican woman with a mule.
• 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 by saying "Don't go to the donkey show", 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.
• 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. In that same episode, Kaitlin Cooper asks "What is a donkey show?"
• In the 2006 film Clerks II, a donkey show was performed in a fast food restaurant as a going-away present for Dante Hicks. 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. The male "partner" of the donkey ("Kinky Kelly and the Sexy Stud") repeatedly corrects references to the activity as not bestiality, but, rather "inter-species erotica".
• In the Veronica Mars episode "You Think You Know Somebody" (Season 1, Episode 5) recurring character Troy Vandegraff mentions donkey shows when talking about his recent trip to Mexico, and in "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."
• In the Drawn Together episode "Mexican't Buy Me Love", Toot Braunstein puts on a donkey show in which a donkey refuses her advances.
• 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."
• The Bob & Tom Show produced an album titled "Donkey Show."
• On GWAR's 1993 Album America Must Be Destroyed, the opening line of the song Rock N Roll Never Felt so Good mentions meeting a girl at a donkey show.
• In the Supernatural episode "No Rest for the Wicked" (Season 3, Episode 16), Dean talks about going to Tj to see a donkey show instead of wasting time trying to find Lillith.
• In the American Dad! episode "The Vacation Goo" (Season 3, Episode 1), Roger is forced into prostitution at Senoritatas, a sleazy bar in Puerto Rico. Upon first entering the bar, he exclaims "Aah, Equus!" It is implied that he has mistaken a donkey show for a performance of the play Equus by Peter Shaffer.
• Rock band moe. has a song titled "Tijuana Donkey Show".
• House (TV series) Season 4, Episode 10. On a side case, House diagnoses a woman with "Conagious ecthyma" from her doing donkey shows. She even offers House a pass to go see one, though it turns out very different in the end.

See also

• Bestiality