Donkey show

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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,[1][2] 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, first argues that donkey shows are not real, but later in the same column mentions reading an early account "in the November 1915 issue of the St. Louis-based medical journal The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, in which a doctor recalled a case 25 years earlier in which spectators at such a show [...] were criminally tried after a woman died during the copulation".[3]

As late as 2008, they have been mentioned as a reason to visit Tijuana, and naive tourists may seek them out.[4]

In popular culture[]

The "donkey show" has been portrayed or alluded to 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] It also gives its name and theme to The Donkey Show, a musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream that climaxes with Bottom (two women in a donkey suit) lower the crotch area onto the pelvis area of Titania, who wears only boots, a thong, and butterfly pasties. A donkey show is also a minor plot element in “House,” S4E10, in which House diagnoses a prostitute as part of his clinic duties.

In 2005, the term is claimed to be used to describe a situation that has become a "complete mess" , for example the government and the news media outlets.[5]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Foreign Affairs". Los Angeles Magazine. 45 (6). June 1, 2000. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 'the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Arellano, Gustavo (2014-10-16). "¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico?". OC Weekly. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Jonathon Green (2005). Cassell's dictionary of slang. Sterling Publishing Company. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
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