Donkey show
A donkey show is a supposed type of sexual performance in which a woman engages in bestiality with a donkey.[1][2] Though widely rumored and portrayed in pop culture as a feature of Mexican border-town brothels, notably Tijuana, they are not well documented and may well be urban legends.[3]
Reality
The shows are difficult to verify and may be urban legends, but anecdotal accounts are frequent.[4][5] 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."[2] Gustavo Arellano, in his ¡Ask a Mexican! column, argues that donkey shows are not real.[6]
Taxi drivers offer tourists a ride to see a donkey show in the red light district.[7] They are sometimes given as a reason to visit Tijuana, and naive tourists may seek them out.[8]
In fiction
The "donkey show" myth has been portrayed in several American films, including Losin' It (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), The 40-Year Old Virgin (2005), Clerks II (2006), The Heartbreak Kid (2007), and Cake (2014).[citation needed]
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."[9]
More recently the term has been used to describe a situation that has become a "complete mess".[10]
See also
References
- ↑ "Foreign Affairs". Los Angeles Magazine. Vol. 45, no. 6. June 1, 2000. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
'the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jim Dawson (1999). Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart. ISBN 1-58008-011-1.
There was a time when guys would boast of having seen a girl-and-donkey show in Tijuana, Mexico.
- ↑ Carmen M. Cusack, Animals, Deviance, and Sex, Template:Isbn, 2015, p. 40
- ↑ "Ethnic, sexual slurs pervade bar". Denver Post. June 8, 2005. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
Although donkey shows in Tijuana and other border towns are impossible to verify, the Internet is rife with anecdotal accounts of brothel bestiality.
- ↑ "On the Borders". Chicago Tribune. March 17, 2002. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
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
- ↑ Arellano, Gustavo (2014-10-16). "¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico?". OC Weekly. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
- ↑ New West. 1981.
One of the drivers offered to drive me to a donkey show. In Tijuana's past the donkey show was always rumored to exist
- ↑ Alejandro L. Madrid, Alejandro Luis Madrid-González (2008). "Where's the Donkey Show, Mr. Mariachi? Reterritorialing TJ". Nor-tec rifa!: electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world. Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press US. pp. 16, 115, 145, 217 (footnote 2), 220 (footnote 41). ISBN 9780195342628.
- ↑ Mark Winegardner (2005). The Godfather Returns. p. 252.
- ↑ Jonathon Green (2005). Cassell's dictionary of slang. Sterling Publishing Company. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
