Bestiality with a donkey

In Turkish slang, the term eşekçi (one who rents out donkeys) is used to describe people who are in the habit of having sexual relations with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Ersoylu |first=Halil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEBkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki |title=Türk argosu üzerinde incelemeler |publisher=L&M Yayınları |year=2004 |isbn=9756491337 |location= |page=72 |language = tr |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023100054/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=yEBkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirtfD78cPsAhU9AxAIHWr1DN04FBDoATAIegQIBxAC |archive-date=23 October 2020}} Donkeys used for sexual intercourse are called Kadifegül, Nallı Fatma, Fatmagül or Eşogelin in some regions of Turkey.{{Cite web |last= |date=18 January 2011 |language = tr |title=Hayvanlarla cinsel ilişki |url=https://www.haberturk.com/saglik/haber/592616-hayvanlarla-cinsel-iliski |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121150950/https://www.haberturk.com/saglik/haber/592616-hayvanlarla-cinsel-iliski |archive-date=21 January 2011 |access-date=23 October 2020 |website= |publisher=haberturk.com}}{{Cite web |first=İpek |last=Özbey |language = tr |date=1 September 2012 |title=Tek gecelik ilişki yaşayan da var evlenen de |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/tek-gecelik-iliski-yasayan-da-var-evlenen-de-21355483 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909164931/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/tek-gecelik-iliski-yasayan-da-var-evlenen-de-21355483 |archive-date=9 September 2019 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website= |publisher=hurriyet.com.tr}}{{Cite web |first=Arda |last=Uskan |date=4 September 2009 |language = tr |title=Sevgili Hıncal, minik sıpa ve RTÜK |url=https://www.takvim.com.tr/yazarlar/arda_uskan/2009/09/04/sevgili_hincal_minik_sipa_ve_rtuk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916020707/https://www.takvim.com.tr/yazarlar/arda_uskan/2009/09/04/sevgili_hincal_minik_sipa_ve_rtuk |archive-date=16 September 2009 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website= |publisher=takvim.com.tr}} In Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatnâme, the phrase eşek filan edici refers to men who have sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Dankoff |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YNYAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici |title=An Evliya Celebi glossary: unusual, dialectal and Foreign words in the Seyahat-Name |publisher=Harvard Universitesi, Yakindoğu Dilleri ve Medeniyetleri Bölümü |year=1991 |isbn= |location= |page=121 |access-date=5 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182912/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=1YNYAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici&dq=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihtY75tcvxAhV1gf0HHQ5MAScQ6AEwAnoECAMQAg |archive-date=9 July 2021}}{{Cite book |last=Hewitt |first=Brian George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxlkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici |title=Caucasian Perspectives |publisher=Lincom Europa |year=1992 |isbn=3929075016 |location= |page=60 |access-date=5 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183252/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=mxlkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici&dq=e%C5%9Fek+filan+edici&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihtY75tcvxAhV1gf0HHQ5MAScQ6AEwA3oECAoQAg |archive-date=9 July 2021}} The people of the region of Colombia where donkey sex is common are known among other Colombians as comeburras, Spanish for “donkey eaters”.{{Cite journal |first1=José María |last1=Valcuende del Río |first2=Rafael |last2=Cáceres-Feria |date=1 October 2020 |title=Social Scientific Analysis of Human-Animal Sexual Interactions |journal=Animals |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/10/1780/pdf |access-date=9 March 2021 |volume=10 |issue=10 |page=1780 |publisher=mdpi.com|doi=10.3390/ani10101780 |doi-access=free |pmid=33019564 |pmc=7600587 }}

References to sex with donkeys may also be used as insults or racial slurs. The Russian word Oslayob means “donkey fucker” and is used as a generic insult.{{Cite book |last=Rahman |first=Syahrul |title=Swearing A cross-cultural study in Asian and European Languages |publisher=Master Linguistics Radboud University Nijmegen |year=2017 |page=33 }} In Arab countries, the expression “donkey fucker” is considered a racist slur.{{cite journal |last1=Schmauks |first1=Dagmar |title=Curs, crabs, and cranky cows: Ethological and linguistic aspects of animal-based insults |journal=Semiotica |date=2014 |volume=2014 |issue=198 |doi=10.1515/sem-2013-0103 }} According to Justine Hardy's book, the term "donkey boy" is used in Pakistan and North India to denigrate and ridicule men who have sex with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Hardy |first=Justine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P11RrRzbDyoC&dq=%22donkey+boy+%27+.+Penetration+in+sodomy+is+not%22&pg=PA168 |title=In the Valley of Mist Kashmir's Long War: One Family's Extraordinary Story |date=15 December 2010 |publisher=Ebury Publishing |isbn=9781446407899 |page=168}}

A meta-analysis published in 2021 estimated that about 2% of the general population engaged in zoophilic acts.{{Cite journal |last1=Campo-Arias |first1=Adalberto |last2=Herazo |first2=Edwin |last3=Ceballos-Ospino |first3=Guillermo A. |date=March 2021 |title=Review of cases, case series and prevalence studies of zoophilia in the general population |url= |journal=Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría |language=es |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=34–38 |doi=10.1016/j.rcp.2019.03.003 |issn=0034-7450 |pmid=33648694 |s2cid=182495781 }} Sexologists Hani Miletski, Andrea Beetz, Colin J. Williams and Martin S. Weinberg conducted a study of people who have had sexual intercourse with animals and found that animals in the equine family are the most preferred animal species for zoophilia after dogs.{{Cite web |first1=Mónica |last1=Ferrari |first2=Paola |last2=Reyes Plazaola |first3=Fernanda |last3=Manzanelli |first4=Marcos |last4=Díaz Videla |date=August 2020 |title=Sexo humano-animal, más allá de los prejuicios. ¿Qué aportan las investigaciones? |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343775370 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806114214/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343775370_Sexo_humano-animal_mas_alla_de_los_prejuicios_Que_aportan_las_investigaciones |archive-date=6 August 2021 |access-date=6 August 2021 |website= }} Another survey of 171 people in 2010 reported that donkeys were the most preferred animal species for sexual intercourse (73) after mares (80).{{Cite journal |last1=Zequi |first1=SC |last2=Guimaraes |first2=GC |display-authors=etal |year=2012 |language=tr |title=Hayvanlarla cinsel ilişki (SWA) - Davranışsal özellikler ve penil kanser ile olan olası ilişki: Çok merkezli çalışma |journal=The Journal of Sexual Medicine |volume=9 |issue=7 |pages=1860–7 |url=https://jag.journalagent.com/androloji/pdfs/AND_2014_56_29_30.pdf |publisher=jag.journalagent.com |doi=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02512.x |pmid=22023719 |quote=extract Andrology Bulletin 2014 16 56 29–30 e-ISSN 2587-2524 }} Of the 144 cases of zoophilia found by Zeb Tortorici in archives in Guatemala, Mexico, Spain and the United States, 42.2% were with female donkeys.{{Cite web |last=Hagler |first=Anderson |date=Fall 2018 |title=Tortorici, Zeb. Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain - Durham: Duke University Press, 2018 |id=Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World (UC Merced) |pages=149–151 |issn=2154-1361 |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt6gj0k4bh/qt6gj0k4bh_noSplash_fd57668686620e22b3f365ff7edcc807.pdf?t=pkowq9 |via=escholarship.org }}

In 2002, an online survey of men who claimed to have had sexual intercourse with an animal was conducted among 114 participants with a median age of 27 years. Of the participants, 91% of whom were American and 83% of whom had graduated from a university or equivalent educational institution, 29% reported having had intercourse with a member of the Equidae family. Of those who continued to actively engage in bestiality, 39% said they have had sexual intercourse with a member of the Equidae. All of those who had ever had sexual intercourse with an Equidae reported having vaginal intercourse with the animal, while half of the respondents also reported having anal intercourse with the animal. In addition, 14% of those who had had sexual intercourse with a member of the Equidae family said they had had oral intercourse with the animal.{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Colin J. |last2=Weinberg |first2=Martin S. |title=Zoophilia in Men: A Study of Sexual Interest in Animals |url= |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |date=2003 |volume=32 |issue=6 |pages=523–535 |doi=10.1023/a:1026085410617 |pmid=14574096 }}

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In Hittite laws, it was acceptable for a man to have sex with a donkey he owned.{{Cite book |last=Boer |first=Roland |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315747910-16/horse-kissing-beastly-emissions-paraphilias-ancient-near-east-roland-boer |title=From horse kissing to beastly emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |page=71 |doi=10.4324/9781315747910-16 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |language=en |access-date=26 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126094130/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315747910-16/horse-kissing-beastly-emissions-paraphilias-ancient-near-east-roland-boer |archive-date=26 November 2021}} Donkeys were used as symbols of sexuality by the Hittites; bestiality with a donkey is alluded to on the Hittite Inandık vase.{{Cite book |last=Penney |first=J. H. W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQ5REAAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+theme+of+incest+is+lacking+in+the+Vedic%2C%22&pg=PA65 |title=Indo-European Perspectives: Studies In Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies |date=14 October 2004 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780191531750 |page=71 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} Allusions to bestiality were made in incantations and rituals recorded in Hittite texts, most notably ones intended to cure erectile dysfunction.{{Cite journal |first=Ilan |last=Peled |date=September 2020 |title=Bestiality in Hittite Thought |url=https://janes.scholasticahq.com/article/19453 |journal=Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=136–177 |access-date=14 March 2021 |publisher=academia.edu}} One such ritual, involving multiple animals and performed by a female practitioner on an impotent patient lying in bed, involved the proclamation:

{{blockquote|"May the donkey swell up! May he mount the jenny! May the buck get an erection! May he repeatedly mount the female-kid! At the head of my bed, indeed, a buck is tied! At the foot of my bed, indeed, a stag is tied! The one at the head of my bed: get an erection! Make love to me! The one at the foot of my bed: get an erection! Caress me! My vagina is the vagina of a bitch! His penis is the penis of a dog! Like the vagina of a bitch seizes the penis of a dog, may my vagina seize his penis!"{{efn|It's unclear whether bestiality was actually performed in this ritual; the source emphasizes that regardless, bestial imagery was considered sexually exciting.}}}}

In Ancient Egypt, curses inflicting donkey rape can be found from the Pharaonic period to the Coptic period,{{Cite book |last=Frangoulidis |first=Stavros |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHtjrI9KMGkC&dq=For+examples+of+donkey-rape+curses+dating+from+the+Pharaonic+to+the+Coptic+period&pg=PA160 |title=Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2008 |isbn=978-3110210033 |location= |page=160 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085426/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=oHtjrI9KMGkC&pg=PA160&dq=For+examples+of+donkey-rape+curses+dating+from+the+Pharaonic+to+the+Coptic+period&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5zdzOwuDxAhUhhf0HHXsWCDMQ6AEwAHoECAoQAg#v=onepage&q=For%20examples%20of%20donkey-rape%20curses%20dating%20from%20the%20Pharaonic%20to%20the%20Coptic%20period&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} usually inscribed on stelae.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AA7TsL3jlgkC&dq=donkey+rape&pg=PA388 |title=The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period |publisher=Society of Biblical Lit |year=2009 |isbn=978-1589831742 |location= |page=388 |access-date=1 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085424/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=AA7TsL3jlgkC&pg=PA388&lpg=PA388&dq=donkey+rape&source=bl&ots=GF6oE2ceOv&sig=ACfU3U1jJo-d0kxrF7Jn7dI_Ez9uNBtpXg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiA3NSI8d_xAhVj_7sIHWd0Bk44ggEQ6AEwCXoECAwQAw#v=onepage&q=donkey%20rape&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} According to a book written during the reign of Ramesses III, a donkey will have sex with the wife and children of one who has intercourse with it.{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Richard M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2acQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+idea+of+having+sex+with+a+donkey+is+found+in+a+curse%22 |title=Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |year=2007 |isbn=978-1565638471 |location= |page=172 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025003425/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=2acQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+idea+of+having+sex+with+a+donkey+is+found+in+a+curse%22&dq=%22the+idea+of+having+sex+with+a+donkey+is+found+in+a+curse%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG1feX4MfsAhXlA2MBHT_1AtAQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg |archive-date=25 October 2020}} It was also written that if a woman had sexual intercourse with a donkey, great misfortune would befall her, as if she had had intercourse with an Assyrian.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2LVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass.%22 |title=Africa Quarterly, 18. cilt,1. sayı |publisher=Indian Centre for Africa |year=1978 |isbn= |location= |page=10 |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716100152/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=V2LVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass.%22&dq=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass.%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIt_P6oefxAhUXwQIHHVYZB2oQ6AEwAXoECAMQAg |archive-date=16 July 2021}} The Donation Stele of King Tefnakht describes a “donkey curse” for those who disturb the fields he gave to the goddess Neith:{{Cite book |last=Trimm |first=Charlie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moI5DwAAQBAJ&dq=May+the+donkey+rape+him%3B+may+the+donkey+%28rape%29+his+wife+and+his+children.+May+he+go+to+the+fiery+blast+of+the+mouth+of+Sakhmet+and+to+the+oath+of+the+Lord+of+the&pg=PA570 |title=Fighting for the King and the Gods: A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East |publisher=SBL Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780884142379 |location= |page=65 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085419/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=moI5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA570&dq=May+the+donkey+rape+him;+may+the+donkey+(rape)+his+wife+and+his+children.+May+he+go+to+the+fiery+blast+of+the+mouth+of+Sakhmet+and+to+the+oath+of+the+Lord+of+the&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX_d2U8N_xAhWHhf0HHTauCWoQ6AEwAHoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=May%20the%20donkey%20rape%20him%3B%20may%20the%20donkey%20(rape)%20his%20wife%20and%20his%20children.%20May%20he%20go%20to%20the%20fiery%20blast%20of%20the%20mouth%20of%20Sakhmet%20and%20to%20the%20oath%20of%20the%20Lord%20of%20the&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

{{blockquote|"As for the one who will disturb them, the wrath of Neith comes to be against him forever and ever. His son will not be confirmed in his office. May the donkey rape him; may the donkey (rape) his wife and his children. May he go to the fiery blast of the mouth of Sakhmet and to the oath of the Lord of the universe and (that of) the gods altogether..."}}

In Ancient Greece, donkeys were viewed disfavorably; to accuse someone's mother of having intercourse with a donkey was to accuse her not just of bestiality, but of bestiality with a particularly grotesque and demeaning beast.{{Cite book |last=Farmer |first=Matthew C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKzkEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22sex+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PA45 |title=FrC 14 Theopompos |date=16 May 2022 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=9783949189401 |page=45 |language=en |access-date=29 September 2024}} Aristo of Ephesus was recorded to have had sexual intercourse with a female donkey.{{Cite book |last1=Summers |last2=Pebworth |first1=Claude J. |first2=Ted-Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jf5ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Aristo+of+Ephesus%22 |title=Renaissance Discourses of Desire |publisher=University of Missouri Press |year=1993 |isbn=0826208851 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209144446/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=jf5ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Aristo+of+Ephesus%22&dq=%22Aristo+of+Ephesus%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_ho_XttzuAhXFk4sKHYKcB7UQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg |archive-date=9 February 2021}} Sex with donkeys is implicitly mentioned in Aristophanes' comedies The Frogs and The Wasps; according to Wolfgang Luppe, the allusions are not entirely unhistorical.{{Cite book |last=Kitchell Jr. |first=Kenneth F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht_gAwAAQBAJ&dq=donkey+painting+bestiality&pg=PA59 |title=Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z |date=2014 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781317577430 |page=59 |language=en |access-date=4 October 2024}} In a theater performance in ancient Corinth, a woman had sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last1=Wilhite |last2=Taaffe |first1=Jud |first2=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nhhwUHmLodQC&q=acceptable+theatrical+performance+in+Corinth+of+a+woman+having+sex+with+a+donkey.%E2%80%9D |title=Stripped: Uncensored Grace on the Streets of Vegas |publisher=Multnomah Publishers |year=2007 |isbn=978-1590527399 |location= |page=68 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085429/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=nhhwUHmLodQC&q=acceptable+theatrical+performance+in+Corinth+of+a+woman+having+sex+with+a+donkey.%E2%80%9D&dq=acceptable+theatrical+performance+in+Corinth+of+a+woman+having+sex+with+a+donkey.%E2%80%9D&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB9ICbj-DxAhVMhv0HHbdZDPUQ6AEwAXoECAMQAg |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

Apuleius wrote of wealthy Romans having sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Alvin J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmdYNpRDo-gC&dq=Apuleius%2C+the+second+century+Latin+author%2C+tells+of+wealthy+Romans+having+sex+with+donkeys&pg=PT103 |title=How Christianity Changed the World |publisher=Zondervan |year=2009 |isbn=978-0310862505 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085419/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=cmdYNpRDo-gC&pg=PT103&dq=Apuleius,+the+secondcentury+Latin+author,+tells+of+wealthy+Romans+having+sex+with+donkeys&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS5s2SiuDxAhXjgf0HHbx8DPQQ6AEwAHoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=Apuleius%2C%20the%20secondcentury%20Latin%20author%2C%20tells%20of%20wealthy%20Romans%20having%20sex%20with%20donkeys&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} Juvenal, in his book of Satires, mentions women who were guilty of having sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Forbát |first=Sándor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNIiAQAAMAAJ&q=human+donkey+intercourse |title=Love, Marriage, Jealousy |publisher=Pallas |year=1938 |isbn= |location= |page=127 |access-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214120609/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=VNIiAQAAMAAJ&q=human+donkey+intercourse&dq=human+donkey+intercourse&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmxrPP_truAhVGxIsKHTLfDAM4KBDoATAAegQIBBAC |archive-date=14 February 2021}} Pliny the Elder wrote that donkey penises soaked in oil and hyena penises covered in honey were sexual fetishes of women living at the time.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZDqAQAAQBAJ&dq=pliny+donkey+penis&pg=PT166 |title=Doing the Right Thing Ethics in Science |publisher=Scientific American |isbn=9781466842601 |publication-date=25 November 2013 |quote=Roman scholar Pliny the Elder reports that the oil-soaked penis of a donkey or the honey-covered penis of a hyena served as a sexual fetishes.}} In History of the Wars, Byzantine historian Procopius wrote that the Heruli, especially those with donkeys, copulated in an "unholy manner";{{Cite book |last=Procopius |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Wars/Book_VI#XIV |title=History of the Wars |publisher=Heinemann |year=1914|at=Book VI, Section XIV}} scholars believe his claims were likely exaggerated.{{Cite book |last=Bremmer |first=Jan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrpU6O3VnawC |title=Homosexuality in the Ancient World |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1992 |isbn=9780815305460 |pages=58–59}}

In Ibn al-Jawzī's Adqiya, he mentions the brilliance of a physician who treated a patient with an unusually swollen penis. The physician guessed that the man had had sexual intercourse with a donkey, during which a grain of grain entered his penis. He then struck the man's penis with a hammer to get rid of the grain blocking it. Both European and Arab writers were cautious in transcribing this incident.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNNHi_RdJ1MC&dq=%22sexual+intercourse+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PA97 |title=Compilation and Creation in Adab and Luġa: Studies in Memory of Naphtali Kinberg (1948-1997) |date=1999 |publisher=Eisenbrauns |isbn=9781575060453 |page=103 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} In the 11th century book Picatrix, a decan description in the Pisces III chapter mentions a woman mounted by a donkey.{{Cite book |last1=Chang |first1=T. Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heEfEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22mounted+by+a+donkey%22&pg=PT362 |title=Tarot Deciphered Decoding Esoteric Symbolism in Modern Tarot |last2=Meleen |first2=M. M. |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide, Limited |year=2021 |isbn=9780738764627}}

Saadi Shirazi gave the following advice to unmarried men in the 13th century:{{Cite book |last=Floor |first=Willem M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfDZAAAAMAAJ&q=bestiality+donkey |title=A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran |publisher=Mage Publishers |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1-933823-33-1|location= |pages=359, 361 |access-date=9 February 2021}}

"Find a white donkey with sharp ears, full hips, a round noses, a long tails and a round flank. Then do as the scholars say: Place three bricks under your feet and have sexual intercourse with the donkey, or if you cannot do this, tie a board to the donkey's two knees and then stand on the board with one foot and have sexual intercourse with the donkey."

According to Mehmed al-Ghazali, sexual intercourse with donkeys was a common male activity in Egypt. According to al-Ghazali, having sex with donkeys was so widespread that stories about it spread and no one denied having sex with a donkey. al-Ghazali also mentions donkey houses in the region. In the donkey houses, which one could enter for a fee, one could have sexual intercourse with female donkeys for hours.{{Cite book |last=Mikhail |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0DVDgAAQBAJ&dq=sex+with+donkey+egypt&pg=PT287 |title=The Animal in Ottoman Egypt |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0199315291 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026203018/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=q0DVDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT287&dq=sex+with+donkey+egypt&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUtLykmMbsAhVZAGMBHYkwB6AQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=sex%20with%20donkey%20egypt&f=false |archive-date=26 October 2020}}

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Between the 15th and 18th centuries, donkey sex was common in rural areas of Europe.{{Cite book |last=Crawford |first=Katherine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7UdTdHwpgkC&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA163 |title=European Sexualities, 1400-1800 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0521839587 |location= |page=163 |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215010921/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=K7UdTdHwpgkC&pg=PA163&dq=bestiality+donkey&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtja_on9zuAhUImIsKHax9Afc4FBDoATADegQIABAC#v=onepage&q=bestiality%20donkey&f=false |archive-date=15 February 2021}} In the 16th century, most Europeans thought that Muslims had sexual intercourse with animals, especially donkeys.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qpf2EAAAQBAJ&dq=sexual+relations+with+donkey&pg=PA99 |title=Mediterranean Reconsidered Representations, Emergences, Recompositions |date=2005 |publisher=Canadian Museum of History |isbn=9781772823738 |pages=98, 99 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024 }}

In the early modern era, trials of people who had sex with donkeys took place in many European countries. Although the records were often burned after the trials, more than 100 bestiality trials in France between the 13th and 17th centuries have survived.{{Cite book |last=Friedland |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygBREAAAQBAJ&dq=donkey+painting+bestiality&pg=PA2 |title=Seeing Justice Done The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France |date=14 June 2012 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780191612404 |language=en |access-date=4 October 2024}} On January 8, 1558, in Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, a donkey rider who was tried for having sexual intercourse with a donkey was burned with his donkey after being executed by hanging.{{Cite book |last=Volot |first=René |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKIL97HNgq4C |title=L'esprit de l'âne : mythes, symboles, traditions |date=2001 |publisher=Éditions Cheminements |isbn=978-2-914474-11-5 |page=96 |language=fr |access-date=28 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415174332/https://books.google.com/books?id=lKIL97HNgq4C#& |archive-date=15 April 2023}} On November 24, 1542, in a similar case before the Parliament of Paris, a man from the commune of Loudun was burned with his donkey after being strangled to death for having sexual intercourse with it. In 1567, the Court of Aragon in Spain sentenced five men to work on a galley after they were found to have had sexual intercourse with a donkey. In 1572, nine peasants were executed for having sexual intercourse with donkeys or mules. In a news report dated September 2, 1595, it is written that a man accused of having sexual intercourse with a donkey by 2 men and 2 women in Portugal was burned to death with the donkey in Rossio Square. According to the report, immediately after the burning, the man was found to be innocent, and those who accused him of having sexual intercourse with the donkey were also burned to death.{{Cite book |last=Lowe |first=K. J. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n1DUEAAAQBAJ&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA244 |title=Provenance and Possession Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy |date=2024 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691246840 |page=244 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} In the late 16th century, in a case of bestiality in France, it was decided that the female donkey would be stoned to death in front of the man on the gallows and then the man would be executed by hanging.{{Cite book |last=Blas de Robles |first=Jean-Marie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QO4x1S2AvpIC&dq=sodomy+with+donkey&pg=PA313 |title=Where Tigers Are at Home |date=5 March 2013 |publisher=Other Press |isbn=9781590515631 |pages=313 |translator-last=Mitchell |translator-first=Mike}} In 1612, Domingos Marquez, the second black man to be burned to death in Portugal, was burned for “disgraceful behavior with a donkey in public”.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ-GDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22acts+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PA87 |title=Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic |date=2007 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |isbn=9780230606982 |page=87 |language=en |access-date=4 October 2024}} From the 17th century onwards, judges began to issue more pardons for donkeys.{{Harvard citation no brackets|Volot|2001|p=97|pp=}} In 1750 in France, a man and a female donkey who were found to have had sexual intercourse were brought to court and tried. While the court decided to execute the man, the donkey was found not guilty. The comments of the villagers about the donkey and the man were influential in this decision.{{Cite book |last=Andrus |first=R. Blain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gksFtlfiaPYC&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA191 |title=Lawyer: A Brief 5,000-year History |publisher=American Bar Association |year=2009 |isbn=978-1604425987 |location= |page=191 |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215010920/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=gksFtlfiaPYC&pg=PA191&dq=bestiality+donkey&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS06eqnNzuAhUk-yoKHamkAP4Q6AEwBnoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=bestiality%20donkey&f=false |archive-date=15 February 2021}} When Frederick the Great pardoned a man caught having sex with a donkey, he said: "In Prussia, man has freedom of both his head and his tail (penis)".{{Cite book |last=Pearson |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cX5fDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22and+his+%E2%80%9Ctail%E2%80%9D+%5Ba+synonym+for+penis%22&pg=PT17 |title=Berlin |date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=9781780237664}}

A man who saw a British merchant held captive in Ottoman Algeria was petrified while having sexual intercourse with his favorite donkey. The British merchant described what he saw as follows: “In a small meadow where excellent grass grew, I saw something that resembled a man resting on the ass of his donkey. They looked so lifelike that from a distance I thought they were alive, but when I came closer I saw that they were perfect statues.” This incident was reported in the London press in 1670.{{Cite book |last=Maclean |first=G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQSHDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22had+been+alive%2C+but+when+I+came+nearer%2C+I+saw%22&pg=PA163 |title=Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire Before 1800 |publisher=Springer |year=2007 |isbn=978-0230591844 |location= |page=163 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085422/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=eQSHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&dq=%22had+been+alive,+but+when+I+came+nearer,+I+saw%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSptKVuuDxAhXmg_0HHTIDD6cQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=%22had%20been%20alive%2C%20but%20when%20I%20came%20nearer%2C%20I%20saw%22&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

It is mentioned in the sources that some rulers had sexual intercourse with donkeys. Zhu Yousong is known to have had sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Chiang |first=Howard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfxjDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sex+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PP1 |title=Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure |publisher=University of Washington Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0295743486 |location= |page=69 |access-date=1 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302102802/https://books.google.com.tr/books?hl=tr&lr=&id=TfxjDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=%22sex+with+a+donkey%22&ots=AWs_AsP1gt&sig=LNnzpZXOuH9MrA89SwIIDnOq_PQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sex%20with%20a%20donkey%22&f=false |archive-date=2 March 2022}} According to one rumor, Catherine the Great had a donkey that she used for sexual intercourse.{{Cite book |last=Tyler |first=Donald E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LtQVMmt_VAcC&q=For+example+,+Catherine+the+Great+of+Russia+is+said+to+have+kept+a+donkey+for+such+purposes+. |title=Foreign Sperm: The Cause of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Cancers, Autoimmune Diseases, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, and Kuru |publisher=Discovery Books |year=2004 |isbn=1884981097 |location= |page=62 |access-date=9 February 2021}} According to Finucci, Caterina Sforza preferred the dried penis of a donkey for what she called a spectacular enlargement of the sexual organ.{{Cite book |last=Finucci |first=Valeria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOqaBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22penis+of+a+donkey%22&pg=PA131 |title=The Prince's Body Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780674725454 |page=131}}

According to linguist Gyula József Décsy's book, sexual intercourse between a human and a donkey is the main taboo in Asia related to the concept of bestiality.{{Cite book |last=Décsy |first=Gyula |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahTnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Related+to+sexual+contacts+between+humans+and+animals%22 |title=The Linguistic Identity of Europe: Macrolinguistics and demostatistics of Europe |publisher=Eurolingua |year=2000 |isbn=9780931922671 |page=390}}

According to a 1938 medical academic paper, donkeys are the most commonly used animal for bestiality among Arabs.{{Cite journal |last=Hasselmann |first=C. M. |date=December 1938 |title=Syphilis Among Arabs In The Near East Bejel And Loath In Iraq And Syria; Firjal And Latta In Palestine; Laghout In Lebanon; Abou-laghif And Jifáar In Trans-jordan |url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/519067 |journal=JAMA |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=837–855 |doi=10.1001/archderm.1938.01480180003001 |quote=Sodomy is widespread among the Arabs and practiced particularly by the poor and by youths who cannot afford a woman. The donkey is the animal mostly used.}} According to Turkish writer Cengiz Gündoğdu's book, sexual intercourse with donkeys is commonplace in Anatolia.{{Cite book |last=Gündoğdu |first=Cengiz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_pYDwAAQBAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+ili%C5%9Fki&pg=PA332 |title=Romanda estetik kalkışma |publisher=Insancil Yayinlari |language = tr |year=2015 |isbn=978-6055958558 |location= |page=333 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026063435/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=F_pYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA332&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+ili%C5%9Fki&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDjtLK5sfsAhULqxoKHTIsCJwQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=e%C5%9Fekle%20ili%C5%9Fki&f=false |archive-date=26 October 2020}} According to anthropologist Edgar Gregersen, there is a belief among Turks that sexual intercourse with donkeys enlarges the penis.{{Cite book |last1=Beetz |first1=Andrea M. |last2=Podberscek |first2=Anthony L. |date=1 March 2017 |orig-year=2005 |title=Bestiality and Zoophilia_ Sexual Relations with Animals (Anthrozoos) |chapter=Arab Countries, the Middle East, and Africa |pages=11–15 |isbn=978-1-55753-412-5 |url=https://institutes.abu.edu.ng/idr/public/assets/docs/Bestiality%20and%20Zoophilia_%20Sexual%20Relations%20with%20Animals%20(Anthrozoos)%20(%20PDFDrive%20).pdf |publisher=Purdue University Press - International Society for Anthrozoology isaz.net }} According to a 2005 Hürriyet newspaper report, 43 percent of men living in rural areas of Turkey had their first sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite web |last= |date=8 August 2005 |language = tr |title=Toplum bekaret konusunda geçiş dönemini yaşıyor |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/toplum-bekaret-konusunda-gecis-donemini-yasiyor-38756061 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182931/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/toplum-bekaret-konusunda-gecis-donemini-yasiyor-38756061 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=1 July 2021 |website= |publisher=hurriyet.com.tr}} İlhan Başgöz and religious historian Julian Baldick claim that young Tahtacı people have sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Gürkaş |first=Hakkı |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1MBJzSJmVAC&dq=ILHAN+BASGOZ+NOTES+THAT+IN+RURAL+TURKEY+BESTIALITY+HAS+BEEN+QUITE+COMMON+AMONG+ADOLESCENT+BOYS+AND+TOLERATED+BY+THE+SURROUNDING+COMMUNITY&pg=PA162 |title=Nasreddin Hodja and the Aksehir Festival: Invention of a Festive Tradition and Transfigurations of a Trickster, from Bukhara to Brussels |publisher=Purdue University |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1-109-00609-4|location= |page=162 |access-date=28 July 2021}} According to writer Osman Şahin, it has been considered normal in villages for centuries for men to have sexual intercourse with donkeys. Cengiz Gündoğdu associates sex with donkeys with repressed and forbidden sexual life. Kamer Genç wrote in the October 23, 1968 issue of Nokta magazine, "Everyone has a donkey relationship in their past". In an interview with an Internet radio station in 2010, Haydar Dümen stated that sexual intercourse with a donkey was a rural custom and that it was said “it's time to take your boy to the donkey now” and that his first sexual intercourse was with a donkey.{{Cite web |first=Güvenç |last=Dağüstün |language = tr |date=12 September 2020 |title=Nallı Fatma |url=https://www.birgun.net/haber/nalli-fatma-315300 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912030033/https://www.birgun.net/haber/nalli-fatma-315300 |archive-date=12 September 2020 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website= |publisher=birgun.net}} Bekir Yıldız states in his book that this type of relationship has decreased with the migration from villages to cities.{{Cite book |language = tr |last=Yıldız |first=Bekir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRdkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+ili%C5%9Fki |title=Insan posasi: hikâye/röportaj |publisher=Cem Yayınevi |year=1976 |isbn= |location= |page=88 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026081550/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=WRdkAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+ili%C5%9Fki&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+ili%C5%9Fki&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS7sLA6cfsAhUOAGMBHc4cAMg4eBDoATAHegQICBAC |archive-date=26 October 2020}} Today in Turkey, people who found to have had sex with donkeys are fined according to Article 14/c of the Animal Protection Law.{{Cite web |last= |date=30 September 2015 |language = tr |title=Eşeğe Tecavüz Eden İki Kişiye Para Cezası |url=https://halktv.com.tr/gundem/esege-tecavuz-eden-iki-kisiye-para-cezasi-70448h |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027153403/https://halktv.com.tr/gundem/esege-tecavuz-eden-iki-kisiye-para-cezasi-70448h |archive-date=27 October 2020 |access-date=22 October 2020 |website= |publisher=halktv.com.tr}}{{Cite web |language = tr |first=Ali Naki |last=Erdoğan |date=3 January 2020 |title=Eşeğe tecavüze 300 lira para cezası |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/esege-tecavuze-300-lira-para-cezasi-41411742#:~:text=E%C5%9Fekle%20cinsel%20ili%C5%9Fkide%20bulunmak%20eylemi,ile%20cezaland%C4%B1r%C4%B1lmas%C4%B1na%20karar%20verildi%22%20denildi. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103131905/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/esege-tecavuze-300-lira-para-cezasi-41411742#:~:text=E%C5%9Fekle%20cinsel%20ili%C5%9Fkide%20bulunmak%20eylemi,ile%20cezaland%C4%B1r%C4%B1lmas%C4%B1na%20karar%20verildi%22%20denildi. |archive-date=3 January 2020 |access-date=22 October 2020 |website= |publisher=hurriyet.com.tr}}

In some plays performed in Turkey, there is a reference to sexual intercourse with a donkey or the role of a man having sexual intercourse with a donkey. In a scene in the Turkish play Hastane mi Kestane mi?, there is a reference to sexual intercourse with a donkey. In the scene set in a hospital, the patient tells the nurse that he has no health problems except that he was kicked by a donkey. The nurse then asks why the donkey kicked him. The patient replies, "Don't question why; this is a romantic relationship."{{Cite journal |last=Çaya |first=Sinan |date=2014 |title=Violence in Rural Regions: the Case of ModernTurkey |url= |journal=Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences |language=tr |volume=114 |pages=721–726 |doi=10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.774 |access-date=|hdl=11424/223664 |hdl-access=free }} In the game of değirmen döndürme, sexuality is shown in the form of sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |language = tr |last=Turan |first=Metin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hznaAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki |title=Folklor/edebiyat |publisher=Metin Turan |year=2003 |isbn= |location= |page=200 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026174821/https://books.google.com.tr/books?hl=tr&id=hznaAAAAMAAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki |archive-date=26 October 2020}} Sexual intercourse with donkeys is also seen in the game of Değirmenci played in Uruş and Yenice villages of Oğuzeli district of Gaziantep.{{Cite book |last=Atalar |first=Ali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBKGAAAAMAAJ&q=De%C4%9Firmenci+uyuyakalm%C4%B1%C5%9Ft%C4%B1r+,+her+kez+un+%C3%B6%C4%9F%C3%BCtmeye+gelenler+uyand%C4%B1r%C4%B1r+,+o+da+onlar%C4%B1+atlat%C4%B1r+, |language = tr |title=Gaziantep kültüründe oyun |publisher=Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyesi |year=1991 |isbn= |location= |page=78 |quote=Değirmenci uyuyakalmıştır, her kez un öğütmeye gelenler uyandırır, o da onları atlatır, son gelen dalap (= eşeğin azgın olduğu zamanlar ) eşeğini bağlamasını söyleyince değişir ertesi gün unu hazır olacaktır, eşeğin arkasına geçerek cinsel ilişkide bulunur. |access-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626092214/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=eBKGAAAAMAAJ&q=De%C4%9Firmenci+uyuyakalm%C4%B1%C5%9Ft%C4%B1r+,+her+kez+un+%C3%B6%C4%9F%C3%BCtmeye+gelenler+uyand%C4%B1r%C4%B1r+,+o+da+onlar%C4%B1+atlat%C4%B1r+,&dq=De%C4%9Firmenci+uyuyakalm%C4%B1%C5%9Ft%C4%B1r+,+her+kez+un+%C3%B6%C4%9F%C3%BCtmeye+gelenler+uyand%C4%B1r%C4%B1r+,+o+da+onlar%C4%B1+atlat%C4%B1r+,&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7l86Z-LTxAhXP-aQKHfGiAccQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg |archive-date=26 June 2021}}

In Turkish culture, sexual intercourse with donkeys is sometimes a source of humor. In 1973, a four-day gala to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Atlantic Records was being organized. When Jerry Wexler fell asleep, Ahmet Ertegün replaced the photo in Wexler's passport with one of a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey. In Paris, the gendarmerie, seeing the photo in the passport, first looked at the photo, then at Wexler, and then at the photo again. As Ertegün collapsed with laughter, Wexler tried to help the gendarmerie by saying “I used to have a beard”.{{Cite book |last=Greenfield |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFhn08nHBqMC&dq=After+Jerry+Wexler+had+fallen+asleep+on+the+plane%2C+Ahmet+took+his+passport+and+replaced+his+photograph&pg=PA276 |title=The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2011 |isbn=978-1439198629 |location= |page=276 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085422/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=xFhn08nHBqMC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=After+Jerry+Wexler+had+fallen+asleep+on+the+plane,+Ahmet+took+his+passport+and+replaced+his+photograph&source=bl&ots=jFKvlBmFwv&sig=ACfU3U3De9ajTCLJE1V2XhwHo74SGLRIeQ&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKmJ6CjeDxAhXe_7sIHTszBJQQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=After%20Jerry%20Wexler%20had%20fallen%20asleep%20on%20the%20plane%2C%20Ahmet%20took%20his%20passport%20and%20replaced%20his%20photograph&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} In the 36th volume of Leman magazine published in 1991, the statement “He who has sexual relations with a donkey has platonic feelings for a lynx!” appears.{{Cite magazine |magazine= Leman |date=1991 |title=LeMan krönik hastalığınız |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqxgAAAAIAAJ&q=E%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+kuran+,+va%C5%9Fa%C4%9Fa+da+platonik+hisler+besler+! |access-date=30 September 2024 |publisher=LeMan Basın Yayın Limited |volume=36}} According to Turkish writer Faruk Kemal Ermiş's book of A'dan Z'ye çaǧdaş rüya yorumları, having sexual intercourse with a donkey in a dream points to perseverance and patience.{{Cite book |language = tr |last=Ermiş |first=Faruk Kemal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYh-AAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki |title=A'dan Z'ye çaǧdaş rüya yorumları |publisher=Gün Yayıncılık |year=2006 |isbn=9758122150 |location= |page=133 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022103009/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=hYh-AAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif15T79sPsAhUGmYsKHS15BjA4ChDoATADegQIBRAC |archive-date=22 October 2020}}

Turkish has expressions that include references to sexual intercourse with donkeys. There are expressions in Turkish that mean “Our national bride is donkey.”{{Cite web |last=Şalgam |first=Didem |date=1 June 2017 |title=Biopolitics Over Farm Animals and Sexualization of Meat: The Case of Nusret's Sexualized Performative Acts of Butchering Meat |access-date= |publisher=etd . ceu.hu Central European University, Hungary - Electronic Thesis Deposit |via=ResearchGate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319806273 }} In Central Anatolia Region of Turkey, people who are clumsy and incompetent in handicrafts are called “Haven't you ever had sexual intercourse with a donkey?”. A study analyzing Tweets shared on Twitter between November 2020 and May 2021 found that donkeys, along with dogs, were the animal most frequently used to negatively portray Kurds as animals, and Kurds were frequently accused of having sexual relations with donkeys.{{Cite journal |date=14 February 2024 |title=Animalization of Kurds in Turkish-Speaking Social Media |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/animalization-of-kurds-in-turkishspeaking-social-media/B4D15D607C35319F4F4930CF5F6F877E |access-date=27 September 2024 |publisher=cambridge.org|doi=10.1017/nps.2023.32 |last1=Tutkal |first1=Serhat |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=907–934 }} There is a Kurdish proverb, Fêda gavana nihandina kera ye, which means "The benefit of the cattleman is to have sexual intercourse with the donkey."{{Cite book |last=Balî |first=A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EplAAAAMAAJ&q=%22e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fkiye%22 |title=Gotınên pêşıyan ên Kurdı̂ |publisher=Pelê Sor |year=1993 |page=158 |isbn=978-975-7867-00-5 |language=ku}}

In the 19th century, as homosexuality among men became widespread in Iran, soldiers were advised to follow Saadi's advice about sex with donkeys. Wilhelm Gollmann, a German doctor, states that the Iranians used to have sexual intercourse with donkeys as a remedy for coccalgia.{{Cite book |last=Gollmann |first=Wilhelm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PjgLvjto-kC&q=%22sodomy+was+originally+practiced+by+shepherds%22&pg=PA202 |title=Homeopathic Guide to all Diseases Urinary and Sexual Organ |publisher=Rademacher & Sheek |others=Charles Julius Hempel |year=1854 |access-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116125129/https://books.google.com/books?id=1PjgLvjto-kC&q=%22sodomy+was+originally+practiced+by+shepherds%22&pg=PA202 |archive-date=16 November 2020}}

The allegation that a Palestinian farmer traveling with his donkey was captured by Israeli soldiers and forced to have sexual intercourse with his donkey has spread through the Palestinian community in a violent but silent outrage.{{cite journal |last1=Dabashi |first1=Hamid |title=Paradise Delayed: With Hany Abu-Assad in Palestine |journal=Third Text |date=January 2010 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=11–23 |doi=10.1080/09528820903488869 }}

In 1873, the monastic head of a Buddhist temple in Beijing told a Japanese pilgrim that if he entered the Holy of Holies of a mosque, he would find a statue of a woman having sex with a donkey, a Muslim idol.{{Cite book |last=Linné Kroll Pillsbury |first=Barbara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69UvAQAAIAAJ&q=%22donkey+in+copulation+with%22 |title=Cohesion and Cleavage in a Chinese Muslim Minority |date=1974 |publisher=Columbia University. |isbn= |page=229 |language=en |quote= |access-date=4 October 2024}}

In the city of Kashgar, a man having sexual intercourse with a donkey is a matter of ridicule for the man and even his family. The shame felt by the people in a village where a case of sexual intercourse with a donkey has occurred is enough to have all the female donkeys in the village sent away.{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Donald C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Udkk8NYZmHkC&dq=In+the+second+story%2C+the+implied+potential+for+bestiality+between+a+young+single+man+and+his+donkey+brings+powerful+mockery+or+insult+to+the+person%2C+or+even+the+family+involved.+The+feeling+of+%27shame%27+the+community+generates+is+enough+to+shut+female+donkeys+out+of+the+entire&pg=PA173 |title=Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing |year=2010 |isbn=978-0857241177 |location= |page=173 |access-date=14 March 2021}}

Zoophilia is not uncommon in Central Asia among young people without access to human partners. A Tajik woman left her husband in disgust when he called her to watch him have sex with a donkey.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzXzWgVajnQC&dq=%22copulating+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PA384 |title=Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures |date=2003 |publisher=Brill |volume=3 |pages=383, 384 |isbn=978-90-04-12819-4 |language=en |access-date=4 October 2024}} İlhan Başgöz and religious historian Julian Baldick claim that in Shamanist societies in Central Asia, young people had sexual intercourse with donkeys.

"Show me an Afghan soldier who says he has not had sexual intercourse with a donkey and I will show you a liar" was said among American soldiers in Afghanistan who mocked the practice of having sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Mundey |first=Lisa M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55FeEAAAQBAJ&dq=bestiality+among+Afghan+men.+The+joke+went,+%E2%80%9CShow+me+an+Afghan+soldier+who+hasn%27t+screwed+a+donkey+and+I%27ll+show+you+a+liar.&pg=PA76 |title=Fighting the Forever War The U.S. Service Member Experience in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 |date=8 February 2022 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |isbn=9781476646824 |page=76 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} In a study analyzing the plays performed by the Ghorbati people, it was found that half of the cases of bestiality in the plays were with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Baghban |first=Hafizullah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUAeAQAAMAAJ&q=DISTRIBUTION+OF+HUMOR+IN+BESTIALITY+Cumulative+Percentages+Pattern+of+Expression+Man+and+Donkey+7.89+%25+50.00+%25+3+Man+and+Dog+2.63+%25+16.66+%25+1+Man+and+Goat+2.63+%25+16.66+%25 |title=The Context and Concept of Humor in Magadi Theater |date=1976 |publisher=Indiana University |page=377 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}}

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In rural areas of India, sexual intercourse with a female donkey is observed. Children in the village often have sexual intercourse with the female donkey.{{Cite book |last=Shanker |first=Uday |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehYzaNJ82eUC&q=is+bestiality+or+having+some+sort+of+a+sexual+intercourse+with+animals+,+like+a+she+-+donkey+,+goat+,+cow+or+she+-+buffalo+,+in+particular+,+as+is+sometimes+observed+in+rural+areas+. |title=Problem Children: Based on Case Studies of Indian Children |publisher=Atma Ram |year=1978 |isbn= |location= |page=202 |access-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208190535/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=ehYzaNJ82eUC&q=is+bestiality+or+having+some+sort+of+a+sexual+intercourse+with+animals+,+like+a+she+-+donkey+,+goat+,+cow+or+she+-+buffalo+,+in+particular+,+as+is+sometimes+observed+in+rural+areas+.&dq=is+bestiality+or+having+some+sort+of+a+sexual+intercourse+with+animals+,+like+a+she+-+donkey+,+goat+,+cow+or+she+-+buffalo+,+in+particular+,+as+is+sometimes+observed+in+rural+areas+.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi53qz48druAhXQCRAIHRFMCn0Q6AEwAHoECAYQAg |archive-date=8 February 2021}} According to a rumor in India, having sex with a donkey cures AIDS by destroying the HIV virus.{{Cite web |last1=Sharma |first1=A. K. |last2=Singh |first2=Rita |last3=Mishra |first3=A. K. |year=2006 |title=Social Representations of HIV/AIDS: A Study of Adolescents and Young Adults in Lalitpur District of UP |url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~arunk/wok_paper.htm |website=IIT Kanpur }} Another belief is that sexual intercourse with a female donkey cures gonorrhea.{{Cite web |last1=Bhardwaj |first1=Himalaya |last2=Kumar |first2=B.V. Sunil |date=25 February 2021 |title=Animal Cruelty: A Spotlight |url=https://www.indianfarmer.net/uploads/37.pdf |website=indianfarmer.net }} The Badagas believe that fatal venereal diseases can only be cured by having sex with a donkey. If the donkey dies immediately after intercourse, the man is considered to be cured of the venereal disease.{{Cite book |last=Hockings |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyBuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22intercourse+with+a+donkey+.+If%22 |title=Sex and Disease in a Mountain Community |publisher=Vikas |year=1980 |page=131 |isbn=978-0-7069-0831-2 |language=en |access-date=29 September 2024}} Some Europeans traveling by caravan in northern India have reported seeing people having sex with donkeys. According to the historian Peter Boomgaard, these cases are situational.{{Cite book |last=Boomgard |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fpGrHpzmbEsC&dq=In+one+instance+sex+with+donkeys+and+mules+is+cited+among+people+travelling+in+a+caravan+in+northern+India,+again+a+typical+case+of+%E2%80%98situational%E2%80%99+sodomy.&pg=PA146 |title=Sexual Diversity in Asia, C. 600-1950 |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415600590 |page=146 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}}

According to Google search results, donkey sex is also searched for in Pakistan, the country where bestiality is the most searched for on the Internet.{{Cite book |last1=Upton |last2=Bayindir |first1=Charles |first2=Abdülaziz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxPYDwAAQBAJ&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA120 |title=The Most Controversial Qur'anic Verse: Why 4:34 Does Not Promote Violence Against Women |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2020 |isbn=978-0761872108 |location= |page=120 |access-date=9 March 2021}} Iqbal Masih was allegedly killed by a man he saw having sex with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Jong |first=Erica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10mUAoCAtSoC&q=The+inquiry+said+he+was+killed+by+a+man+whom+Iqbal+saw+having+sex+with+a+donkey+. |title=The Body Politic |publisher=Writers & Scholars International |year=1995 |isbn=0904286487 |location= |page=182 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085420/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=10mUAoCAtSoC&q=The+inquiry+said+he+was+killed+by+a+man+whom+Iqbal+saw+having+sex+with+a+donkey+.&dq=The+inquiry+said+he+was+killed+by+a+man+whom+Iqbal+saw+having+sex+with+a+donkey+.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGvZi4muDxAhUFhv0HHZQmBMIQ6AEwAHoECAgQAg |archive-date=14 July 2021}} The allegation, based on police reports and the testimonies of Iqbal's cousins, has been ignored by the global media because it seems implausible that the man who had sex with the donkey killed only Iqbal and not the two cousins with Iqbal.{{Cite web |last= |date=12 November 2015 |title=Pakistan's Iqbal Masih: He changed the world before being murdered at the age of 13 |url=http://www.dardistantimes.com/world/news/1566434288/pakistan-s-iqbal-masih-he-changed-world-being-murdered-age-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108094502/http://www.dardistantimes.com/world/news/1566434288/pakistan-s-iqbal-masih-he-changed-world-being-murdered-age-13 |archive-date=8 November 2020 |access-date=13 July 2021 |website= |publisher=dardistantimes.com}}{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Death in Chak 46 |url=https://iqbalmasih.solidaridad.net/death-in-chak-46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415111934/https://iqbalmasih.solidaridad.net/death-in-chak-46 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |access-date=13 July 2021 |website= |publisher=iqbalmasih.solidaridad.net}} In Pakistan, a donkey that was raped by another villager after escaping from its owner was killed by the owner after being declared a kari (“adulterous female”), The News International reported.{{Cite web |date=29 July 2014 |title=The Zoophiles of Gaza |url=https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/article/the-zoophiles-of-gaza/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124184732/https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/article/the-zoophiles-of-gaza/ |archive-date=24 November 2021 |access-date=24 November 2021 |publisher=chroniclesmagazine.org}}

Some Russian officers serving in the 1828-1829 Ottoman-Russian War in Wallachia shunned women for fear of contracting sexual diseases, often preferring to have intercourse with female donkeys who showed signs of sexual pleasure.{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=Havelock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhPgD82sHNsC&dq=women+and+often+used+female+asses+which+appeared+to+show+signs+of+sexual&pg=PT150 |title=Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism, The Mechanism of Detumescence, The Psychic State in Pregnancy |publisher=tradition |year=2012 |isbn=978-3842498457 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626092217/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=lhPgD82sHNsC&pg=PT150&dq=women+and+often+used+female+asses+which+appeared+to+show+signs+of+sexual&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPrMr-7bTxAhXi_rsIHYaNCTMQ6AEwAnoECAsQAg#v=onepage&q=women%20and%20often%20used%20female%20asses%20which%20appeared%20to%20show%20signs%20of%20sexual&f=false |archive-date=26 June 2021}} In 1843, a man found to have had sexual intercourse with a donkey in England was exiled to Australia.{{Cite book |last=Marston |first=Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPMoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22bestiality+with+a+donkey%22 |title=Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind Bars |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |year=2009 |isbn=978-1905615339 |location= |page=100 |access-date=28 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806113903/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=uPMoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22bestiality+with+a+donkey%22&dq=%22bestiality+with+a+donkey%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiav7Tf0enxAhVB8xQKHZRdDDs4FBDoATADegQIBhAC |archive-date=6 August 2021}} French anthropologist Marie-Christine Anest reports that until the 1980s in Crete and Cyprus, males aged between 6 and 17 had sexual intercourse with female donkeys. Among the South Slavs, donkeys were one of the main animals used for sexual intercourse.{{Cite book |last=Bloch |first=Iwan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Q-JIdSFQycC&q=In+India+,+and+also+among+the+Southern+Slavs+,+horses+and+donkeys+play+the+principal+part+as+objects+of+bestial+love |title=The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization |publisher=Rebman |year=1909 |isbn= |location= |page=644 |access-date=9 February 2021}}

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A Turkish worker at Zoo Basel in Switzerland who had sexual intercourse with Margörit, a donkey of the zoo, asked for his acquittal in the hearing held at the Zurich Court, stating that in his traditions and customs, every man has sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Kökütürk |first=Yalın İstenç |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiJkAAAAMAAJ&q=bir+T%C3%BCrk%C3%BCn+e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fkideyken+su%C3%A7%C3%BCst%C3%BC+yakalanmas%C4%B1+%C3%BCzerine+bu+ili%C5%9Fkinin |title=Tersine tebbet |publisher=Toplumsal Dönüşüm Yayınları |year=1995 |isbn=9757244414 |location= |page=493 |access-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626092214/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=qiJkAAAAMAAJ&q=bir+T%C3%BCrk%C3%BCn+e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fkideyken+su%C3%A7%C3%BCst%C3%BC+yakalanmas%C4%B1+%C3%BCzerine+bu+ili%C5%9Fkinin&dq=bir+T%C3%BCrk%C3%BCn+e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fkideyken+su%C3%A7%C3%BCst%C3%BC+yakalanmas%C4%B1+%C3%BCzerine+bu+ili%C5%9Fkinin&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlor3a27TxAhWp_rsIHQBmA_QQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg |archive-date=26 June 2021}} The judge acquitted the defendant who had intercourse with the donkey in accordance with Turkish customs.{{Cite web |first=Mine |last=Kırıkkanat |date=20 July 2011 |title=İki Kitap, Bir Türkiye |url=https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/mine-g-kirikkanat/iki-kitap-bir-turkiye-267586 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626092212/https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/mine-g-kirikkanat/iki-kitap-bir-turkiye-267586 |archive-date=26 June 2021 |access-date=26 June 2021 |website= |publisher=cumhuriyet.com.tr}} This event was a hot topic in Swiss newspapers for days. Turks accused the judge of being Turkophobic because of this decision.{{Cite book |last=Nesin |first=Aziz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrycDwAAQBAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+mahkeme&pg=PA320 |title=Bir Tutam Aydınlık |publisher=Nesin Yayıncılık |year=2019 |isbn=978-6054702633 |location= |page=320 |access-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626092215/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=jrycDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA320&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+mahkeme&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKyL3a67TxAhUkhP0HHeuuBH4Q6AEwAXoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=e%C5%9Fekle%20cinsel%20ili%C5%9Fki%20mahkeme&f=false |archive-date=26 June 2021}}

In British culture, donkey sex is a light topic and is used to shame and ridicule those allegedly involved. There is a significant amount of humorous content on Twitter about bestiality. References to zoophilia with animals other than donkeys are not considered humorous.{{cite journal |last1=Clancy |first1=Cara |last2=McClaughlin |first2=Emma |last3=Cooke |first3=Fiona |title=Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain |journal=Anthrozoös |date=2 November 2023 |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=951–970 |doi=10.1080/08927936.2023.2248762 }}

One of the Romani jokes known in Andalusia contains a reference to sexual intercourse with a donkey. In the joke, one day when the Romani sells donkeys in the Baza town, one of the donkeys gets an erection. The Guardia, who wants to trick the Romani, says that he will fine the Romani if he does not get rid of the donkey's erection. The Romani protests, saying he has no control over the donkey, but the Guardia stands firm. When the Guardia walks away, the Romani bites hard on the donkey's ear, hurting the donkey and causing donkey to lose erection. When Guardia returns, he is surprised and asks the Romani how he did it. The Romani tells him that he told the donkey “If you don't lower it, the Guardia will suck the thing”. According to Brandes, it is intended to emphasize the intelligence, large penises, and sexual power of the Romani people with this joke.{{Cite book |last=Brandes |first=Stanley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rt5wBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22donkey%27s+penis%22+-rumi&pg=PP1 |title=Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore |date=17 April 2015 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=9780812292503 |pages=68, 69}}

In Dagestan, one of the nationalist discourses used in everyday conversations defines Caucasian men as “ass-fuckers”.{{Cite web |last=Sumina |first=Ekaterina |year=2014 |title=Producing White And Black: the Caucasian Male Other and Boundaries Of The Nation In Contemporary Russia |publisher=Central European University - Electronic Thesis Deposit |url=https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/sumina_ekaterina.pdf }}

There is a belief in Morocco that anal and vaginal intercourse with donkeys makes the penis grow.

An anonymous researcher conducting anthropological fieldwork in rural Algeria reported having seen a young man nervously having sexual intercourse with a donkey the day before his wedding. The young man's aim was clearly to avoid appearing desperate and incompetent to his wife on their wedding night.{{Cite book |last1=Podberscek |last2=Paul |last3=Serpell |first1=Anthony L. |first2=Elizabeth S. |first3=James A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSs2yV_F4n0C&dq=she+was+doing+anthropological+fieldworkin+rural+Algeria&pg=PA326 |title=Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0521017718 |location= |page=326 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085422/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=tSs2yV_F4n0C&pg=PA326&dq=she+was+doing+anthropological+fieldworkin+rural+Algeria&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizoICEv-DxAhXZ_rsIHU8dDs8Q6AEwAHoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=she%20was%20doing%20anthropological%20fieldworkin%20rural%20Algeria&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

Victor Jiřík reported in his 1913 book K pyramidám that he saw a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey in Alexandria.{{Cite book |last=Malečková |first=Jitka |url= |title=Czechs Abroad |date=2021 |publisher=Brill.com |isbn=9789004440791 |pages=109}}

The practice of having sexual intercourse with female donkeys has been reported to exist among Masai youth. They believe that having sex with a donkey improves their lovemaking skills. In contrast, in Masai society, where having sex with a donkey is considered childish, having sex with a donkey would violate the honor and pride of an adult Masai.{{Cite book |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=b37ca6a638d1e585baf3e78fd1c2e3175f1fd7de#page=641 |title=Encyclopedy of Sex and Gender, Masai maddesi |date=2003 |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |isbn=0-306-47770-X |access-date=3 October 2024}} Iraqw people are reported to have sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last1=Wada |last2=Eguchi |last3=Hakubutsukan |first1=Shōhei |first2=Paul Kazuhisa |first3=Kokuritsu Minzokugaku |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOsXAQAAMAAJ&q=Among+the+Iraqw+,+sexual+intercourse+is+an+indoor+activity+;+cattle+and+donkeys+,+small+domestic+animals+such+as+goats+,+sheep+,+calves+etc.+,+as+well+as+people+,+are+allotted+their+places+,+called |title=Africa 1 |publisher=National Museum of Ethnology |year=1979 |isbn= |location= |page=49 |access-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208193900/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=AOsXAQAAMAAJ&q=Among+the+Iraqw+,+sexual+intercourse+is+an+indoor+activity+;+cattle+and+donkeys+,+small+domestic+animals+such+as+goats+,+sheep+,+calves+etc.+,+as+well+as+people+,+are+allotted+their+places+,+called&dq=Among+the+Iraqw+,+sexual+intercourse+is+an+indoor+activity+;+cattle+and+donkeys+,+small+domestic+animals+such+as+goats+,+sheep+,+calves+etc.+,+as+well+as+people+,+are+allotted+their+places+,+called&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiakbu9-NruAhVLlosKHbulCLcQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg |archive-date=8 February 2021}} According to the Hausa villagers, if a man has become rich, he has either had sexual intercourse with a donkey or with another man.{{cite journal |last1=Barkow |first1=Jerome H. |last2=Akiwowo |first2=Akinsola A. |last3=Barua |first3=Tushar K. |last4=Chance |first4=M. R. A. |last5=Chapple |first5=Eliot D. |last6=Chattopadhyay |first6=Gouranga P. |last7=Freedman |first7=Daniel G. |last8=Geddes |first8=W. R. |last9=Goswami |first9=B. B. |last10=Isichei |first10=P. A. C. |last11=Knudson |first11=Mary S. |last12=Manson |first12=Spero M. |last13=Parker |first13=Christopher E. |last14=Price |first14=John A. |last15=Sarles |first15=Harvey B. |title=Prestige and Culture: A Biosocial Interpretation [and Comments and Replies] |journal=Current Anthropology |date=December 1975 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=553–572 |doi=10.1086/201619 }} Donkey sex is also practiced among the Mossi people. Young Mossi people who cannot have intercourse with women because they have not yet been circumcised have sexual intercourse with donkeys. In Mossi culture, men who continue to have sex with donkeys after youth are believed to be cursed.{{Cite book |last=Hammond |first= Peter B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2mtEAAAAIAAJ&q=While+homosexuality+appears+to+be+almost+nonexistent+among+the+Mossi+,+bestiality+involving+burros+is+generally+known+and+widely+abhored+. |title=Yatenga; technology in the culture of a West African kingdom |publisher=Free Press |year=1966 |isbn= |location= |page=121 |access-date=1 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185021/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=2mtEAAAAIAAJ&q=While+homosexuality+appears+to+be+almost+nonexistent+among+the+Mossi+,+bestiality+involving+burros+is+generally+known+and+widely+abhored+.&dq=While+homosexuality+appears+to+be+almost+nonexistent+among+the+Mossi+,+bestiality+involving+burros+is+generally+known+and+widely+abhored+.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitibqHvMHxAhVw_7sIHcInCXcQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg |archive-date=9 July 2021}}

As of 2018, Ethiopia, home to the world's largest donkey population with more than 8.5 million donkeys, has also seen cases of donkey sex.{{Cite journal |first1=Stuart L. |last1=Norris |first2=Holly A. |last2=Little |first3=Joseph |last3=Ryding |first4=Zoe |last4=Raw |date=25 February 2021 |title=Global donkey and mule populations: Figures and trends |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=e0247830 |publisher=journals.plos.org|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0247830 |doi-access=free |pmid=33630957 |pmc=7906361 |bibcode=2021PLoSO..1647830N }}{{Cite journal |last=Abeya |first=Sileshi Garoma |year=2022 |title=Sexual Coercion at sexual debut and associated factors among Young Females in rural areas of Boset District, Eastern Ethiopia: A Mixed Method Study |journal=African Health Sciences |volume=22 |number=3 |pages=13–23 |doi=10.4314/ahs.v22i3.4 |doi-access=free |pmid=36910406 |pmc=9993284 |quote=...females and donkey like beating by stick }} Ethiopia is the country with the highest number of Google searches for donkey sex videos in relation to population.{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Donkey sex video - Google Trends |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=donkey%20sex%20video&date=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182945/https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=donkey%20sex%20video&date=all |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= }}{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Donkey sex - Google Trends |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=donkey%20sex |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710163925/https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=donkey%20sex |archive-date=10 July 2020 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= }}{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Girl sex donkey - Google Trends |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=girl%20sex%20donkey&date=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184155/https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=girl%20sex%20donkey&date=all |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= }}

According to ethnologist and psychoanalyst George Devereux account, sexual intercourse with mares, donkeys, cows, calves existed among the Mohave and Quechan people. Hopis have also been reported to have sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2m14XqnOwcC&q=Bestiality+is+fairly+common+among+the+Hopi+Indians+.+Men+are+reported+to+have+intercourse+with+burros+,+dogs+,+horses+,+sheep+,+and+even+chickens+. |title=Patterns of Sexual Behavior |publisher= |year=1952 |isbn= |location= |page=148 |access-date=1 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181930/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=_2m14XqnOwcC&q=Bestiality+is+fairly+common+among+the+Hopi+Indians+.+Men+are+reported+to+have+intercourse+with+burros+,+dogs+,+horses+,+sheep+,+and+even+chickens+.&dq=Bestiality+is+fairly+common+among+the+Hopi+Indians+.+Men+are+reported+to+have+intercourse+with+burros+,+dogs+,+horses+,+sheep+,+and+even+chickens+.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCie_kucHxAhV3hf0HHTdcDn4Q6AEwAHoECAIQAg |archive-date=9 July 2021}} According to one account, in ancient Pueblo Indians society, some religious ceremonies could not begin until everyone laughed, so the jesters would have sexual intercourse with the donkey before the ceremony to make everyone laugh and relieve tension.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cqlAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22copulating+with+a+donkey+might+precede+a+carefully+choreo-+graphed+religious+ceremony+of%22&pg=PA301 |title=Human Sexuality An Encyclopedia |date=2014 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781135825027 |page=301 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}}

According to one rumor, originating in the 1960s and put forward by opponents of sex education in the US, young people were taught about sex with donkeys in sex education classes.{{cite journal |last1=Irvine |first1=Janice M. |title=Emotional scripts of sex panics |journal=Sexuality Research and Social Policy |date=September 2006 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=82–94 |doi=10.1525/srsp.2006.3.3.82 }} In Jack Hanna's book Jungle Jack, an attorney for the Columbus Zoo testified that a mother was mounted and humped by a donkey in front of her children as she bent down to tie her shoes at the zoo. Afterward, the woman told zoo officials over the phone that she was going to sue, but later backed down when she thought the incident would become more widely known.{{Cite book |last=Hanna |first=Jack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msZvNSZghHcC&dq=%22humped+by+a+donkey%22&pg=PA98 |title=Jungle Jack My Wild Life |date=11 July 2008 |publisher=Thomas Nelson |isbn=9781418571122 |page=98}}

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In Panama it is rumored that there were nightclubs where women had sex with donkeys. At donkey shows in Tijuana, Mexico, prostitutes are said to publicly engage in sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite news |date=1 June 2000 |title=Foreign Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W18EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103 |access-date=25 April 2010 |work=Los Angeles |volume=45 |issue=6 |quote='the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLSXmhudzOQC&pg=PA155 |title=Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart |year=1999 |isbn=1-58008-011-1 |quote=There was a time when guys would boast of having seen a girl-and-donkey show in Tijuana, Mexico. |last1=Dawson |first1=Jim |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed }} However, there is very little documentation of this.{{Cite book |last=Cusack |first=Carmen M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tp7WCgAAQBAJ&dq=sex+with+donkey+statistics&pg=PA40 |title=Animals, Deviance, and Sex |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978-1443884709 |location= |page=40 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026081225/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Tp7WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=sex+with+donkey+statistics&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiBqM2GmcbsAhUjzYUKHZJPBfIQ6AEwAXoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=sex%20with%20donkey%20statistics&f=false |archive-date=26 October 2020}} According to the 1981 book New West, taxi drivers offered to take tourists arriving in Tijuana to the red light district where they could watch donkey performances.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUIcAQAAIAAJ&q=donkey+show+mexico |title=New West |year=1981 |isbn= |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}} Donkey shows were on the list of reasons to visit Tijuana in 2008.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2W6uYsvqroC |title=Nor-tec rifa!: electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world |publisher=Oxford University Press US |year=2008 |isbn=9780195342628 |edition=Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music |pages=16, 115, 145, 217 (footnote 2), 220 (footnote 41)}} In contrast, Gustavo Arellano claims that donkey shows are not real.{{Cite news |last=Arellano |first=Gustavo |date=16 October 2014 |title=¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico? |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/news/ask-a-mexican-are-donkey-shows-really-a-thing-in-mexico-6432071 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101231853/http://www.ocweekly.com/news/ask-a-mexican-are-donkey-shows-really-a-thing-in-mexico-6432071 |archive-date=1 January 2017 |access-date=1 January 2017 |work=OC Weekly}} In Juarez, another city where public cases of donkey sex are alleged to have occurred, donkey shows are allegedly held in disposable buildings made of papier-mâché.{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Gregory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfMEDAAAQBAJ&dq=Juarez+had+donkey+shows%2C+prostitutes%2C+liquor+in+disposable+buildings+made+of+paper+mache.&pg=PT19 |title=Confessions of Fraternity Days |publisher=Fulton Books, Inc. |year=2016 |isbn=978-1633381780 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714134048/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=XfMEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT19&dq=Juarez+had+donkey+shows,+prostitutes,+liquor+in+disposable+buildings+made+of+paper+mache.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUqsyWsuLxAhXUQeUKHVqvAlwQ6AEwAHoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=Juarez%20had%20donkey%20shows%2C%20prostitutes%2C%20liquor%20in%20disposable%20buildings%20made%20of%20paper%20mache.&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}{{Cite book |last=Steinig |first=Eric Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkkxDwAAQBAJ&dq=first+desire+was+to+see+the+much-heralded+feat+of&pg=PA54 |title=My Adventurous Life: An Autobiography |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2017 |isbn=978-1483470085 |location= |pages=53, 54 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714134050/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=NkkxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&dq=first+desire+was+to+see+the+much-heralded+feat+of&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT3r7TreLxAhU8hf0HHe4rCs8Q6AEwAHoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=first%20desire%20was%20to%20see%20the%20much-heralded%20feat%20of&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} In the north of Costa Rica and Honduras, there have been reports of young people having intercourse with a female donkey.{{Cite book |last=Tortorici |first=Zeb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feFdDwAAQBAJ&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PT151 |title=Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0822371625 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=9 February 2021}}

Donkey sex occur on the Atlantic coast of Colombia.{{cite report |type=Preprint |first1=Oscar Adolfo |last1=Medina-Perez |first2=Liliana Marcela |last2=García |first3=Juan Carlos |last3=Ortiz Valencia | date=1 September 2018 |title=Characterization of Sex with Animals in Córdoba, Colombia. An Exploratory Study |doi=10.20944/preprints201809.0484.v1|doi-access=free }}{{Unreliable source?|reason=Not peer reviewed. The study only had a sample size of 47 people.|date=October 2024}}{{Cite book |last=Ateş |first=Alper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6n6jDwAAQBAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+seks&pg=PA71 |title=Turizmin Karanlık Yüzü: Seks Turizmi |publisher=Eğitim Yayınevi |year=2019 |isbn=978-6057557810 |location= |page=71 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026202008/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=6n6jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+seks&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4h_PVm8bsAhWRY8AKHXBxAXIQ6AEwAnoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=e%C5%9Fekle%20seks&f=false |archive-date=26 October 2020}} According to a belief among young people in Colombia, a man who has intercourse with a donkey grows a longer penis, ready for sexual intercourse with a woman.{{Cite web |last= |date=20 February 2015 |title=Bestiality is much, much more common than you think |url=https://www.health24.com/Sex/Sexual-diversity/Bestiality-is-much-much-more-common-than-you-think-20150218 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317100637/https://www.health24.com/Sex/Sexual-diversity/Bestiality-is-much-much-more-common-than-you-think-20150218 |archive-date=17 March 2015 |access-date=25 October 2020 |website= |publisher=health24.com}}

Small donkeys are one of the animals used for sexual intercourse in Northwest Brazil.{{Cite book |first=Stênio |last=de Cássio Zequi |title=Sexual Diversity and Sexual Offending |date=2014 |chapter=The medical consequences of sex between humans and animals |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429480034-12/medical-consequences-sex-humans-animals-st%C3%AAnio-de-c%C3%A1ssio-zequi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126094133/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429480034-12/medical-consequences-sex-humans-animals-st%C3%AAnio-de-c%C3%A1ssio-zequi |archive-date=26 November 2021 |access-date=26 November 2021 |pages=185–202 |publisher=taylorfrancis.com|doi=10.4324/9780429480034-12 |isbn=978-0-429-48003-4 }} A priest caused a scandal in a Brazilian village when he preached a sermon on the evils of having sex with donkeys and chickens.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mg8iAQAAMAAJ&q=sexual+intercourse+with+donkey |title=Fieldstaff Reports: East Coast South America series, 18-21. ciltler |publisher=American Universities Field Staff |year=1974 |isbn= |location= |page=9 |access-date=15 March 2021}}

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Depictions of sexual intercourse with donkeys are found on cave, clay, vase and kerosene lamp materials. The cave painting in the Val Camonica rock paintings, estimated to date to the 8th millennium BC, depicts a man having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite journal |first1=Diamandopoulos |last1=Diamandopoulos |first2=Pavlos C |last2=Goudas |date=1 May 2007 |title=Human and ape: The legend, the history and the DNA |journal=Hippokratia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cave-painting-from-the-Val-Camonica-Italy-circa-8000-BC_fig1_26651959 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310174613/https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cave-painting-from-the-Val-Camonica-Italy-circa-8000-BC_fig1_26651959 |archive-date=10 March 2023 |access-date=22 March 2021 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=92–94 |pmid=19582186 |pmc=2464272 }} In an engraving on brown clay found in Egypt and dated between 900 BC and 586 BC, an animal, thought to be a donkey, has sexual intercourse with a woman.{{Cite book |url=https://www.academia.edu/57568437 |title=The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970-1990 |year=2014 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |pages=865, 875 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024 |last=Ben-Shlomo |first=David |series=Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology }} In one of the ancient Egyptian amulets, in which the presence of Set in depiction is intended to announce the threatening side of the god, the depiction shows a squatting woman above a donkey with an erect penis, who is penetrating the woman.{{Cite book |last=Tsatsou |first=Eleni |url=https://www.academia.edu/38580559 |title=Magical Gems In Their Contexts |date=2019 |isbn=978-88-913-1297-6 |pages=279, 283 |chapter=Uterine Amulets: Amulets that Protect the Uterus or that Reinforce Erotic Desire?|publisher="L'Erma" di Bretschneider }} A 26 cm long artifact, a mixture of vase and statuette found in Ravanusa, dating to 510-500 BC, depicts a half-human, half-goat-like satyr having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Beth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCA2AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22intercourse+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PA244 |title=The Colors of Clay Special Techniques in Athenian Vases |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |year=2006 |isbn=9780892369423 |page=244 |language=en}} A Roman flask dated to the 2nd or 3rd century AD from the city of Bakchias depicts a woman and a donkey with an erect penis preparing to have sexual intercourse with her.{{cite book |last1= Buzi|first1= Paola|last2= Giorgi|first2=Enrico|date= 16 April 2020|title= The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity|page=58|trans-title= |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=X_MPEAAAQBAJ|language= |location= |publisher= Archaeopress Publishing Limited|isbn=9781789695687}} In 1780, Abbé Giffon discovered a Roman bas-relief depicting a donkey having sexual intercourse with a woman in the Apt commune of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.{{Cite book |last=Sobin |first=Gustaf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJla9fkRqKoC&dq=Along+with+the+baths+were+discovered+fragments+of+a+sculpture%2C+a+bas-relief+depicting+a+woman+sodomized+by+a+donkey%2C+and+no+less+than+twelve+marble-lined+dressing+rooms.&pg=PR9 |title=Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc |date=5 January 2009 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520942417 |page=13}} A painting from the Hellenistic period shows a man secretly having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Bulliet |first=Richard W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVcaAwAAQBAJ&dq=sexual+intercourse+with+donkey+egypt&pg=PA160 |title=Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0231503962 |location= |page=160 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023073524/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=bVcaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160&dq=sexual+intercourse+with+donkey+egypt&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXrpeY_MPsAhXDk4sKHT7HDY8Q6AEwA3oECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=sexual%20intercourse%20with%20donkey%20egypt&f=false |archive-date=23 October 2020}} Athenian Band Cup by the Oakeshott Painter (MET 17.230.5) depicts a satyr preparing to sodomize a male donkey.{{Cite book |last=Beck |first=Verlag C.H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGUt2hS1VjcC&dq=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA128 |title=Hermeneutik der Bilder Beiträge zur Ikonographie und Interpretation griechischer Vasenmalerei |date=2009 |isbn=9783406593215 |page=128 |publisher=C.H.Beck |language=en, de |access-date=2 October 2024}} In a kantharos painted by Epictetus, a donkey with an erect penis is seen next to an almost naked maenad.{{Cite journal |last=Keuls |first=Eva |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1986_num_12_1_1714 |title=History without women : necessity or illusion ? |journal=Dialogues d'histoire ancienne |year=1986 |volume=12 |page=134|doi=10.3406/dha.1986.1714 }}{{Cite journal |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/metis_1105-2201_1990_num_5_1_954 |title=Asses and rams : dionysiac release in Aristophanes' wasps and attic vase-painting |journal=Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens |year=1990 |pages=179–180|doi=10.3406/metis.1990.954 |last1=Davies |first1=Mark I. |volume=5 }} According to Franco, the woman appears as if she is inviting the excited donkey to sex with her.{{Cite web |last=Franco |first=Cristiana |date=2017 |title=Greek and Latin Words for Human-Animal Bonds: Metaphors and Taboos |url=https://www.academia.edu/34574356 |website=academia.edu |page=45}} A gas lamp from Ancient Greece, dating from 150 to 250 AD, depicts a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite web |last=Vomvyla |first=Eleni |date=November 2010 |title=Eros: from Hesiod's Theogony to Late Antiquity, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 10th December 2009-11th April 2010 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274172485 |access-date=30 September 2024 }} Two Cyprus-made gas lamps on display in the British Museum depict a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey or horse.{{Cite book |last=Lightfoot |first=Christopher S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpMvEAAAQBAJ&q=bestiality+donkey&pg=PA6 |title=The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil Lamps |date=21 May 2021 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=9781588397249 |page=17 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} One of the Homeric vases depicting millers working in a flour mill includes a scene of theft and an attempt to sexually stimulate a donkey.{{Cite journal |last=Sandy |first=Gerald N. |year=1974 |title=Scaenica Petroniana |journal=Transactions of the American Philological Association |volume=104 |page=340 |doi=10.2307/2936096 |jstor=2936096 }}

Some of the sculptures in India depicting sexual intercourse in which the man takes the active role depict an aristocratic-looking man having intercourse with a donkey. In depictions where the animal takes the active role, the woman is often depicted having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=Devangana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmdQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22donkey+,+deer+or+dog+.+Type+C%22 |title=Erotic Sculpture of India A Socio-cultural Study |date=1975 |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company |isbn=9780070963849 |page=74 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} In a temple in Vijayanagara, a menstruating woman is depicted having sexual intercourse with a donkey or horse.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4M4KAQAAMAAJ&q=%22copulation+with+a+donkey%22 |title=Asian Theatre Journal ATJ. |date=1984 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |volume=13 |page=126 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} There are gardabha stones in various parts of India. These stones depict women having sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Kumari |first=M. Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkJuAAAAMAAJ&q=copulating+donkey |title=Kings, Gods and People Essays on Cultural History of Medieval Āndhradēśa |date=2004 |publisher=Kaveri Books |isbn=9788174790675 |page=33 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} The stone depicting Ganesha, found in a place of worship in Erandwane, India, depicts a man being punished with a donkey for forcing a woman in his family to have sexual intercourse with a donkey. The duration of the man's punishment with a donkey is indicated by the sun and moon symbols carved on the stone.{{Cite web |first=Jivay |last=Chavan |date=23 February 2021 |title=The shocking reality of a deified inscribed stone gets uncovered |url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/the-shocking-reality-of-a-deified-inscribed-stone-gets-uncovered/articleshow/81159161.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225145725/https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/the-shocking-reality-of-a-deified-inscribed-stone-gets-uncovered/articleshow/81159161.cms |archive-date=25 February 2021 |access-date=30 June 2021 |website= |publisher=punemirror.indiatimes.com}} A 12th century AD stone slab found in the village of Daranagar and exhibited in the Allahabad Museum depicts a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wZuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22third+century+A.D.+,+a+four+-+armed+figure+of+Vishnu%22 |title=Indian Archaeology |date=1978 |publisher=Archæological Survey of India |page=69 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} A mid-13th century inscription describing an engraved image depicting a woman having sexual intercourse with a donkey found in Jhansi and Vidisha in Central India states that “the father of the transgressor turned into a donkey”.{{Cite journal |last=Furui |first=Ryosuke |date=2 September 2013 |title=Merchant groups in early medieval Bengal: with special reference to the Rajbhita stone inscription of the time of Mahīpāla I, Year 33 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/merchant-groups-in-early-medieval-bengal-with-special-reference-to-the-rajbhita-stone-inscription-of-the-time-of-mahpla-i-year-33/BD76DDCE8052873ACCC3F9B0C079088C |access-date=16 October 2024 |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=391–412 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0041977X13000451 }} A pillar in India depicts a donkey-like animal in a relationship with a woman. The woman in the depiction was bent over with the help of a pot.{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=Devangana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmdQAAAAMAAJ&q=bestiality+donkey |title=Erotic Sculpture of India: A Socio-cultural Study |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company |year=1975 |isbn=0070963843 |location= |page=62 |access-date=9 February 2021}}

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Francisco Goya painted many paintings of big-eared donkeys dressed as school teachers. These paintings were a reference to sexual relations between humans and animals.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cJEAQAAIAAJ&q=that+Goya+was+the+great+innovator+of+the+grotesque+in+modern+art+,+and+the+implacable+historian+of+human+bestiality |title=The Critic, 20-21. ciltler |publisher=Thomas More Association |year=1961 |isbn= |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209121827/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=-cJEAQAAIAAJ&q=that+Goya+was+the+great+innovator+of+the+grotesque+in+modern+art+,+and+the+implacable+historian+of+human+bestiality&dq=that+Goya+was+the+great+innovator+of+the+grotesque+in+modern+art+,+and+the+implacable+historian+of+human+bestiality&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiln5bUrNzuAhVoo4sKHf1hCrYQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg |archive-date=9 February 2021}} An 18th century engraving from Europe shows a nun having sexual intercourse with a donkey while other nuns watch in amusement.{{Cite book |editor1-last=Korstanje |editor2-last=George |editor1-first=Maximiliano |editor2-first=Babu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4wtDwAAQBAJ&dq=an+18th+century+European+engraving+of+a+nun+coupling+with+a+donkey+while+other+amused+nuns+spectate&pg=PA178 |title=Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism |publisher=IGI Global |year=2017 |isbn=978-1522527510 |location= |page=178 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182546/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=W4wtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=an+18th+century+European+engraving+of+a+nun+coupling+with+a+donkey+while+other+amused+nuns+spectate&source=bl&ots=fK7Ot0KYq3&sig=ACfU3U1fohsq-DwqpwgU3Xcdygc-2dlycw&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjckKGG17_xAhXGgP0HHTCoCkoQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=an%2018th%20century%20European%20engraving%20of%20a%20nun%20coupling%20with%20a%20donkey%20while%20other%20amused%20nuns%20spectate&f=false |archive-date=9 July 2021}}

People who have sexual intercourse with donkeys can develop various diseases. A 2008 study found that a 20-year-old shepherd who had sexual intercourse with a donkey developed Hodgkin's disease as a result of the relationship.{{Cite journal |first1=Farzin |last1=Khorvash |first2=Ammar H |last2=Keshteli |first3=Hassan |last3=Salehi |first4=Levente |last4=Szeredi |first5=Servaas A |last5=Morre |date=1 September 2008 |title=Unusual transmission route of Lymphogranuloma venereum; following sexual contact with a female donkey |journal=International Journal of STD & AIDS |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23133654 |access-date=16 March 2021 |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=563–564 |doi=10.1258/ijsa.2008.008073 |pmid=18663048 }} Trichophyton bullosum, a fungal skin disease in donkeys, can also be transmitted to humans through contact. Previously seen in humans in Africa and the Middle East, the disease was first seen in Europe in 2012. In the case detected in rural areas of France, the disease is thought to have been transmitted from donkey to human.{{Cite journal |first1=Pavlina |last1=Lyskova |first2=Vit |last2=Hubka |first3=Radim |last3=Dobiáš |first4=Anna |last4=Petřičáková |date=September 2008 |journal=International Journal of STD & AIDS |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=563–564 |doi=10.1258/ijsa.2008.008073 |title=Equine Dermatophytosis due to Trichophyton bullosum, a Poorly Known Zoophilic Dermatophyte Masquerading as T. verrucosum |pmid=18663048 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281111139 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181839/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281111139_Equine_Dermatophytosis_due_to_Trichophyton_bullosum_a_Poorly_Known_Zoophilic_Dermatophyte_Masquerading_as_T_verrucosum |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=1 July 2021 }} In Morocco in 2017, 15 young people who had sex with donkeys were reported to have rabies.{{Cite web |last= |date=16 August 2017 |title=Fifteen teenagers get rabies after raping donkey |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/160817/fifteen-teenagers-get-rabies-after-raping-donkey.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816165103/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/160817/fifteen-teenagers-get-rabies-after-raping-donkey.html |archive-date=16 August 2017 |access-date=22 October 2020 |website= |publisher=deccanchronicle.com}}

Sexual intercourse with donkeys can also cause physical harm. A farmer who had intercourse with a medium-sized farm animal, presumed to be a donkey, had wounds around the anus, a tear at the inflection point of the rectum and pale skin. A computed tomography scan showed injury to the proximal rectum, 7 to 10 centimeters from the opening of the rectum.{{Cite journal |last=Sendler |first=Damian Jacob |date=12 July 2017 |title=Similar mechanisms of traumatic rectal injuries in patients who had anal sex with animals to those who were butt-fisted by human sexual partner |journal=Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine |volume=51 |pages=69–73 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2017.07.014 |pmid=28763709 }} A man in Kenya who had sex with a donkey developed penile complications.{{Cite news |first=Osinde |last=Obare |date=4 September 2020 |title=Kiminini man hospitalised with STI after bestiality act with donkey |url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/western/article/2001385188/man-develops-penile-pain-after-unnatural-act-with-donkey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085420/https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/western/article/2001385188/man-develops-penile-pain-after-unnatural-act-with-donkey |archive-date=14 July 2021 |access-date=14 July 2021 |newspaper=The Standard (Kenya) |url-status=live }} Donkey kicks during sexual intercourse can injure or kill a person. In August 2014, it was reported that a Saudi man who tried to have sexual intercourse with a donkey died after the donkey kicked him in the head and chest.{{Cite web |last=Duggal |first=Girija |date=November 2015 |title=Caught in the Middle: Working donkeys in the Middle East |url=http://www.animalslebanon.org/images/stories/9690-144742750139.pdf |via=Animals Lebanon.org |publisher=The Donkey Sanctuary }}{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=A Saudi died after attempting to sexually abuse a donkey |url=https://desktop.beiruting.com/LeMag/A_Saudi_died_after_attempting_to_sexually_abuse_a_donkey/3118 |access-date=2 October 2014 |publisher=desktop.beiruting.com}}

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Sexual intercourse with a donkey is mentioned in Aesop's Fables. While waiting to be executed in Delphi, Aesop tells tales and fables to the Delphites about themselves. Aesop's friend visits him in prison and asks, “Why does it seem good to you to insult them (the Delphites) while they are in captivity in their own country? Have you preached to the people and become a fool?” and scolds Aesop. Aesop responds with a fable about a foolish girl and the woman who prays for her daughter:

"One day, while walking down the road, the girl encounters a man violently raping a donkey and asks him what he is doing. The man replies, “I am giving him advice” (νοῦν ἐντίθημι αὐτῇ). The girl persuades him after saying “give me some advice too”. Then, as if triumphant, the girl turns to her mother and says “I have wisdom”. The mother, after listening to the whole story, laments, “Oh child, you have lost even the wisdom you had."

Aesop expresses that the same thing happened in his own case and that when he came to Delphi he lost even the wisdom he had. In the analogical relationship between Aesop's own situation and the fable, the girl's mother is Aesop's friend, the girl is Aesop and the Delphites are the man who rapes the donkey.{{Cite book |last=Kurke |first=Leslie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PDJK-9Sd7dUC&dq=%22raping+an+ass%22&pg=PA87 |title=Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1400836567 |location= |page=87 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714134047/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=PDJK-9Sd7dUC&pg=PA87&dq=%22raping+an+ass%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTy4zCqeLxAhXJiqQKHR-BAGMQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=%22raping%20an%20ass%22&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} In two fables in Esopete ystoriado, there are passages that directly and indirectly emphasize that men want to have sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{cite journal |last1=Cardenas-Rotunno |first1=Anthony |title=Assessing Asses and Lasses in the 1488 Spanish Esopete ystoriado |journal=Romance Quarterly |date=April 2008 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=82–95 |doi=10.3200/RQTR.55.2.82-95 }}

In Apuleius' fable of The Golden Ass, it is considered symbolically appropriate that the woman who, out of anger, jealousy, and greed, plans to kill her husband, daughter and two others by poisoning them, is executed by having sex with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Ripat |first=Pauline |title=Phoenix Roman Women, Wise Women, and Witches |date=2016 |publisher=Classical Association of Canada Societe canadienne des etudes classiques |pages=113}}

Sexual intercourse with donkeys also occurs in folk tales. In a story from the oral folk literature of the Western Toba region of India, a man has intercourse with a female donkey.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crN6AAAAMAAJ&q=sexual+relations+with+donkey |title=Folk Literature of the Toba Indians |date=1982 |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center Publications |volume=68 |page=553 |isbn=978-0-87903-069-8 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024 }} One of the four different figures in Arab folktales believed to have been created by the sexual intercourse of humans and animals is the “Son of the Donkey”, who is believed to have been born from the mating of a donkey and a woman.{{Cite book |last=El-Shamy |first=Hasan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7zbroD7uVUC&dq=%22The+Donkey%27s+Son%22&pg=PA143 |title=Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-type Index |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0253344476 |location= |page=143 |access-date=8 February 2021}} In an Omani folktale, after the witch kills her older daughter, she prepares her younger daughter to have sexual intercourse with the demon in the form of a donkey. During the preparation, the mother witch removes her daughter's clothes and encourages her to remain silent while the donkey rapes her daughter. If the daughter utters the name of God or says, “In the name of God I am free from Satan,” while having sex with the donkey, the donkey will disappear. However, if the girl's mother or father asks the donkey to return, the donkey comes back and continues to have sexual intercourse with the girl. The sexual intercourse continues until the donkey has an orgasm. When the donkey orgasms, the girl turns into a witch.{{Cite web |first=Jennifer L. |last=Borger |date=2011 |title=By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way Comes: Omani Perceptions of the Supernatural |url=https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2030&context=isp_collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302102802/https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2F&httpsredir=1&article=2030&context=isp_collection |archive-date=2 March 2022 |access-date=2 March 2022 |website= |publisher=digitalcollections.sit.edu}} In a humorous folk tale known in Somalia, a 6-year-old boy discovers his mother having sexual intercourse with a house guest. When he went to tell his father what he had seen, he saw his father having sexual intercourse with a female donkey. He then decides not to disturb his father and returns home.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOPVDKS-ngsC&dq=%22with+a+female+donkey%22&pg=PT172 |title=Voice and Power |date=2005 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781135751746 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024 }} A folktale in the literary tradition of Buddhists in Sri Lanka has a story in which a king and a female donkey are likely to have had sexual intercourse.{{Cite book |last=Ratnapāla |first=Nandasēna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbXfAAAAMAAJ&q=human+donkey+intercourse |title=Folklore of Sri Lanka |publisher=State Print. Corporation |year=1991 |isbn=9789556100891 |location= |page=117 |access-date=8 February 2021}} In one of the stories about the origins of the Haadiiwo caste in southern Ethiopia, Bushshee's servant had sexual intercourse with a female donkey, who became pregnant and gave birth to a human being named Hade, the ancestor of all Haadiiwo.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m10GEQAAQBAJ&dq=sodomy+with+donkey&pg=PA103 |title=The Sidaama With a preface by Zerihun Doda |date=20 February 2023 |publisher=Lit Verlag |isbn=9783643963123 |editor-last=Teferra |editor-first=Anbessa |page=103 |editor-last2=Thubauville |editor-first2=Sophia}} In one tale from the Śukasaptati, an ancient collection of Indian stories, a woman vows to kiss an idol of Ganesha if she achieves a particular goal. When she fulfills her promise, the idol mischievously grabs hold of her lips and refuses to let go. Her husband has to make the idol laugh by simulating sex with a donkey to rescue his wife.{{cite book |last=Haksar |first=Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel |title=Shuka Saptati — Seventy tales of the Parrot |date=2000 |publisher=HarperCollins India |isbn=81-7223-370-1 |location=India |pages=186–187}}

The Indian state of Maharashtra is one of the historical sites of donkey curses inscribed on stelae. An ancient Sanskrit curse found at Dabhol in Ratnagiri, written in Sanskrit, means “let the donkey have intercourse with the sinner and the sinner's mother”.{{Cite web |last=Rob |first=Abdur |date=2015 |title=Some Imprecatory And Benedictory Verses In Muslim Waqf (Endowment) Inscriptions Of Bengal |url=https://www.academia.edu/24968084 |access-date=3 October 2024 |publisher=academia.edu}} The Akshi Saka stele dating to 1012 AD (disputed), the Saka stele dating to 1081 or 1082 AD and the Sintra stele dating to 1137 AD are some of the stelae with donkey curses. There is a continuity in the production of these stelae until 1300 AD. The Alu Naka stele dated 1396 AD, the stele of Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah dated 1398 AD, the stele of Deva Raya II dated 1426 AD, the stele of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah dated 1590 AD and the stele dated 1652 AD are some of the stelae found in Maharashtra containing donkey curses.{{cite journal |last1=Wirkud |first1=Harshada |title=Discussing the Importance of Ass Curse Steles Issued by Muslim Rulers in the Corpus of Gadhegals |journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute |date=2017 |volume=77 |pages=131–138 |jstor=26609166 }}

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Sexual intercourse with donkeys is mentioned in the story of concubines in Rumi's Masnavi. In the work, one of the master's concubines has sexual intercourse with the donkey in the house. The master's wife sees the concubine having intercourse with the donkey. The master's wife also wants to have sexual intercourse with the donkey and takes the donkey to the stable. After the master's wife lies under the donkey, the donkey inserts his penis into her vagina. The donkey's penis ruptures her lung and she dies there. In the story, the master's concubine was unharmed because she tied a gourd to the donkey's penis.{{Cite book |last=Yıldırımoğlu |first=Murat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3JKDQAAQBAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+mevlana&pg=PT7 |title=Sosyal Yazılar: Türkiye'nin sosyal ve siyasal yaşamına ilişkin yazılar |publisher=Yıldırımoğlu Yayıncılık |year= |isbn=1370576927 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023002818/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=i3JKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT7&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+mevlana&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxx8eZ6cPsAhWMuIsKHZ2DA-IQ6AEwAnoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=e%C5%9Fekle%20cinsel%20ili%C5%9Fki%20mevlana&f=false |archive-date=23 October 2020}}{{Cite book |last=Nesin |first=Aziz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJ-cDwAAQBAJ&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&pg=PA42 |title=Surname |publisher=Nesin Yayıncılık |year=2019 |isbn=978-6054702879 |location= |page=42 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021170910/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=hJ-cDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUkbTy5cPsAhVHw4sKHWfWBhsQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=e%C5%9Fekle%20cinsel%20ili%C5%9Fki&f=false |archive-date=21 October 2020}} According to Turkish writer Şefik Can, this story is taken from the book The Golden Ass by the Latin poet Apuleius.{{Cite book |last=Turaç |first=Durmuş Ali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iK9AAQAAIAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+sevi%C5%9Fmek |title=Tasavvuf: ilmî ve akademik araştırma dergisi |publisher= |year=2007 |isbn= |location= |page=28 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026034715/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=iK9AAQAAIAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+sevi%C5%9Fmek&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+sevi%C5%9Fmek&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2zM7_msbsAhUNoRQKHQ2rBq0Q6AEwBnoECAIQAg |archive-date=26 October 2020}} In addition to Rumi, in Persian literature between the 10th and 15th centuries, poets such as Sanai, Masud Saʿd Salman, Anvari, Shamsi ʾl-Aʿraj, Qamar and ʿAmʿaq also wrote satirical poems containing references to sexual relations with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Zipoli |first=Riccardo |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30721 |title=Irreverent Persia |date=2015 |publisher=Leiden University Press |isbn=9789087282974 |location=Leiden |doi=10.24415/9789087282271|doi-broken-date=4 December 2024 |hdl=20.500.12657/30721 }}

In chapter 11 of the 15th-century sex book The Perfumed Garden, a woman has sexual intercourse with a donkey. This chapter is not included in the new editions of the book.{{Cite book |last=Nefwazi |first=Shaykh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1y2VsXCeiXkC&dq=The+Perfumed+Garden+bestiality&pg=PT4 |title=The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi |publisher=Library of Alexandria |year=2020 |isbn=978-1613102916 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=18 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124192157/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=1y2VsXCeiXkC&pg=PT4&dq=The+Perfumed+Garden+bestiality&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivvL6u2bH0AhW-SvEDHcQcDMQQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=The%20Perfumed%20Garden%20bestiality&f=false |archive-date=24 November 2021}} In the book Dafi al-gumûm wa Rafi al-humûm, an Arab is quoted as saying that having sexual intercourse with donkeys is better than gambling, and a Turk is quoted as saying that if I have sexual intercourse with donkeys, those who enjoy it should give one or two pieces of gold.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PY2LAAAAIAAJ&q=%22use+in+explaining+them+here%22 |title=Book of Shehzade Dafiü'l Gumûm, Rafiü'l Humûm |date=2001 |publisher=Dönence |isbn=9789757054177 |page=108 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024 }} In Arabic erotic manuscripts dating from the late Middle Ages, there are passages about women having intercourse with donkeys. In one anecdote, a porter discovers this tendency in his wife.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yToJZFsCx_sC&dq=%22copulating%22+donkey&pg=PA231 |title=Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature |date=2003 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=9780472113217 |page=231 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}}

Sexual intercourse with donkeys also appears in Nasreddin jokes written in the 16th century.{{Cite book |last=Marranci |first=Gabriele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjBuV2AAzHIC&dq=nasreddin+sex+with+donkey&pg=PA120 |title=Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2010 |isbn=978-9048133628 |location= |page=120 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022000420/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=XjBuV2AAzHIC&pg=PA120&dq=nasreddin+sex+with+donkey&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicnozW7MPsAhUmtYsKHWFoCD8Q6AEwBXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=nasreddin%20sex%20with%20donkey&f=false |archive-date=22 October 2020}} It is thought that at least one fifth of the Nasreddin Hodja jokes written in this period contain obscene content.{{Cite book |last=Avcı |first=Haydar A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsWCAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+nasreddin |title=Halkbilimi araştırmaları |publisher=E Yayınları |year=2013 |isbn= 978-975-390-187-1|location= |page=115 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023213901/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=DsWCAAAAMAAJ&q=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+nasreddin&dq=e%C5%9Fekle+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+nasreddin&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-vqaY8MPsAhXFlYsKHeXdCMkQ6AEwBHoECAAQAg |archive-date=23 October 2020}} In one of these jokes, Nasreddin Hodja is caught having sexual intercourse with a donkey in the mosque.{{Cite book |last1=Başgöz |last2=Boratav |first1=İlhan |first2=Pertev Nailı |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRZlAAAAMAAJ&q=nasreddin+sex+with+donkey |title=I, Hoca Nasreddin, Never Shall I Die: A Thematic Analysis of Hoca Stories |publisher=Indiana University |year=1998 |isbn= 978-1-878318-15-2|location= |page=31 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022103010/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=FRZlAAAAMAAJ&q=nasreddin+sex+with+donkey&dq=nasreddin+sex+with+donkey&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicnozW7MPsAhUmtYsKHWFoCD8Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg |archive-date=22 October 2020}} In another anecdote, Nasreddin Hodja shows his donkey to someone and asks him “how can I have intercourse with this weak, poor creature”. The man advises him to apply yogurt on his penis and to enter and exit the donkey's vulva. The hodja does as the man says and by chance ejaculates. In another joke, Nasreddin Hodja is caught by the donkey's owner while having sexual intercourse with someone's donkey. When the owner says “what do you think you are doing?”, he tells him that what he is doing will not harm the donkey and advises him to protect the donkey from wolves.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SzYtAQAAIAAJ&q=copulating+donkey |title=Archivum Ottomanicum |date=1970 |publisher=Mouton |volume=2 |page=39 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} In another joke, Nasreddin Hodja sunbathes naked after having sexual intercourse with his donkey, and when someone scolds him, he replies, “Should I cover my wet penis so that it gets moldy?”.{{Cite web |last=Erdoğan |first=Necmi |date=2013 |title=Nasreddin Hoca And Tamerlane: Encounters With Power In The Turkish Folk Tradition Of Laughter |url=https://www.academia.edu/9243837 |access-date=3 October 2024 |publisher=academia.edu}}

Many plays and poems written in the Early modern era feature sexual relations with donkeys. One of the last two plays by Tang Xianzu is the story of Lu Sheng's sexual desire for a female donkey.{{cite journal |id={{Project MUSE|621151}} |last1=Maoqing |first1=Chen |title=Incest, Zoophilia, and Lust for Power in Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare |journal=Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas |date=2016 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=217–236 |doi=10.1353/pan.2016.0015 }} In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the donkey-bodied character Nick Bottom has sexual intercourse with Titania, Queen of the Fairies.{{cite journal |last1=Beetz |first1=Andrea M. |title=Bestiality/Zoophilia: A Scarcely Investigated Phenomenon Between Crime, Paraphilia, and Love |journal=Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice |date=6 April 2004 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=1–36 |doi=10.1300/J158v04n02_01 }} Jafar Zatalli's satirical poems include references to sexual relations with donkeys.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jo8DEQAAQBAJ&dq=bestial+donkey&pg=PA304 |title=Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India Current Research |date=2024 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780192889362 |page=304 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} In the satirical poem The Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc is depicted as an illiterate, illegitimate stable girl who rides a flying donkey and is in constant danger of being sexually assaulted by it.{{Cite web |first=John M. |last=Pendergast |date=2018 |title=The Maid of the Highlands: Joan of Arc Reflected in West Point Iconography |url=https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=usma_research_papers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129213517/https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=usma_research_papers |archive-date=29 November 2022 |access-date=15 July 2021 |website= |publisher=digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org}} At the end of the poem, the possessed donkey tries to persuade Joan of Arc to have sexual intercourse. After the donkey comes to his senses, he explains to Joan of Arc that he is possessed and apologizes.{{Cite book |last=Meltzer |first=Françoise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SEPFzzpvp0C&dq=Joan+of+Arc+donkey+voltaire&pg=PA228 |title=For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-226-51984-5|location= |page=228 |access-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715111030/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=_SEPFzzpvp0C&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=Joan+of+Arc+donkey+voltaire&source=bl&ots=NZCKwLNDds&sig=ACfU3U2ccnyPCIGbDEcr-Otj_CucHRApgQ&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil5PL00OTxAhVW_7sIHXobAU4Q6AEwEnoECBEQAw#v=onepage&q=Joan%20of%20Arc%20donkey%20voltaire&f=false |archive-date=15 July 2021}} Written by Voltaire to undermine the view of Joan of Arc as a heroine, it was banned throughout Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jabwAAAAMAAJ&q=protagonists+in+the+most+outrageous+way+:+Voltaire+has+Joan+of+Arc+copulate+with+a+donkey |title=L'anti-Machiavel: Éd. critique avec les remaniements de Voltaire pour les deux versions |publisher=Institut et musée Voltaire |year=1958 |isbn=0729407349 |location= |page=418 |access-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715111031/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=jabwAAAAMAAJ&q=protagonists+in+the+most+outrageous+way+:+Voltaire+has+Joan+of+Arc+copulate+with+a+donkey&dq=protagonists+in+the+most+outrageous+way+:+Voltaire+has+Joan+of+Arc+copulate+with+a+donkey&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjH2qbu2-TxAhXdhf0HHei2Ap4Q6AEwAHoECAMQAg |archive-date=15 July 2021}}{{Cite book |last=Heimann |first=Nora M. |title=Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855) |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |year=2005 |isbn=0-7546-5085-5}}

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There are two different Hungarian legends about Maria Theresia's sexual intercourse with a donkey. In the first legend, Queen Maria is insatiable and has sexual intercourse with a male donkey. Then the courtiers, in order to drive the queen crazy with pleasure, put the queen into a wooden horse, cover the wooden horse with a horsehide, and the male donkey has sexual intercourse with the queen in a horse costume. In the second legend, Maria Theresia has sexual intercourse with a male donkey because she is not satisfied with the sexual performance of any of the soldiers. Satisfied with her intercourse with the male donkey, Maria Thereasia tells her men, “I want the gray-coated one again!”{{cite journal |id={{Project MUSE|919523}} |last1=Zitser |first1=Ernest A. |title=The Myth of Catherine the Great and the Horse: A Critical Review of the Historiography |journal=Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History |date=2024 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=93–115 |doi=10.1353/kri.2024.a919523 }}

In the 20th century, many books of poetry and novels were published containing references to sexual intercourse with donkeys. E. E. Cummings' erotic poems, in which “the donkey stares into Muhammad's eyes”, refer to Arab cases of bestiality, suggesting that the Qur'an should be ignored.{{cite journal |last1=Peterson |first1=Rai |title=The Young and Evil: Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, E. E. Cummings' Sassy Gay Friends |journal=Spring |date=2014 |volume=73 |issue=21/22 |pages=182–198 |doi=10.17077/0003-4827.12074 |jstor=44114891 }} In Le Diable au corps, one of the female characters has sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last1=Hewitt |last2=Rogers |first1=Regina |first2=Pat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcPlVq0t2QgC&dq=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass%21%22&pg=PA241 |title=Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-century Society: Essays from the DeBartolo Conference |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0838755011 |location= |page=241 |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716100154/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=UcPlVq0t2QgC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass!%22&source=bl&ots=2PG489_Zxe&sig=ACfU3U3BWAhz93bsXT2yXCocS0aMi6N1JA&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV1JHPnefxAhULwAIHHe7CDVAQ6AEwAnoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22sexual%20relations%20with%20an%20ass!%22&f=false |archive-date=16 July 2021}} Gerard Reve became famous after the work in which God, depicted as a mouse-gray donkey, makes love to a visitor to God's house.{{Cite book |last=Ali |first=Ayaan Hirsi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76etMziivjMC&dq=%22I+could+say+would+be+seen+as+anything+close+to+%E2%80%9Cexplosive%E2%80%9D+in+such+a%22&pg=PT457 |title=Infidel |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2008 |isbn=9781847395979 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=8 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715111024/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=76etMziivjMC&pg=PT457&dq=%22I+could+say+would+be+seen+as+anything+close+to+%E2%80%9Cexplosive%E2%80%9D+in+such+a%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVxsXH6-TxAhW7g_0HHQ7JB2IQ6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=%22I%20could%20say%20would%20be%20seen%20as%20anything%20close%20to%20%E2%80%9Cexplosive%E2%80%9D%20in%20such%20a%22&f=false |archive-date=15 July 2021}} Reve was put on trial for blasphemy in 1966. In April 1968, the Court of Cassation acquitted Reve as a result of the trial known as the “Donkey Trial”. In 2013, blasphemy was decriminalized in the Netherlands.{{Cite web |first=Tracy |last=Brown Hamilton |date=20 May 2017 |title=Sex with God as a donkey: What constitutes blasphemy today? What's at stake when ancient ideas of heresy collide with the modern notion of free speech? |url=http://www.salon.com/2017/05/20/blasphemy-laws-ireland-united-states-netherlands/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718025024/https://www.salon.com/2017/05/20/blasphemy-laws-ireland-united-states-netherlands/ |archive-date=18 July 2021 |access-date=15 July 2021 |work=salon.com}} Linda Hogan and Joy Harjo have written erotic poems about horsemen.{{cite journal |last1=Huebert |first1=David |title=The Equine Erotopoetics of Linda Hogan and Joy Harjo |journal=ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |date=May 2018 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=169–185 |doi=10.1093/isle/isy012 }} In the story “My Best Soldier” in Ocean of Words book, a soldier caught having sex with a prostitute is told by his commander to either self-criticize or quit the army. The soldier chooses to do the former in order not to lose his honor. The disciplined soldier does not have sex with the prostitute for months. One day the commander catches the soldier having sexual intercourse with a mule.{{Cite book |last=O'Ceallaigh Ritschel |first=Nelson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skdEeK1SEAQC&dq=In+the+first+story%2C+a+soldier+who+visits+a+prostitute+is+disciplined%2C+so+he+takes+to+having+sex+with+a+mule+instead.&pg=RA12-PP3 |title=Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2003 |isbn=0313322295 |location= |page=111 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085425/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=skdEeK1SEAQC&pg=RA12-PP3&dq=In+the+first+story,+a+soldier+who+visits+a+prostitute+is+disciplined,+so+he+takes+to+having+sex+with+a+mule+instead.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijwI7OqODxAhUHhf0HHQIyArMQ6AEwAHoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=In%20the%20first%20story%2C%20a%20soldier%20who%20visits%20a%20prostitute%20is%20disciplined%2C%20so%20he%20takes%20to%20having%20sex%20with%20a%20mule%20instead.&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}} In Jaime Manrique's 1982 novel Latin Moon in Manhattan, a character named Sammy is taken by his uncle to a donkey for his first sexual intercourse. While his uncle has sexual intercourse with the donkey, Sammy gets excited by focusing on his uncle's large penis and realizes that he is in fact gay.{{cite journal |last1=Sánchez |first1=Alberto Sandoval |title=Breaking the Silence, Dismantling Taboos: Latino Novels on AIDS |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |date=9 January 1998 |volume=34 |issue=3–4 |pages=155–175 |doi=10.1300/J082v34n03_09 |pmid=9505230 }} Turkish writer Orhan Kemal's novel Cemile tells the story of a group of people in Adana who see themselves as urbanites and humiliate the field workers who come to the brothel by deeming Nallı Fatma sufficient.{{Cite web |first=Ertuğrul |last=Efeoğlu |date=17 November 2005 |title=Erken Erişilmiş Bir Bilgelik |url=http://www.orhankemal.org/links/221.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515152011/http://www.orhankemal.org/links/221.htm |archive-date=15 May 2006 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website= |publisher=orhankemal.org}} In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character Petronio says, "Corrupt Christians who do business with female donkeys", a reference to sexual intercourse with donkeys.{{Cite book |last=Garcia Marquez |first=Gabriel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AfB8EAAAQBAJ&dq=There+are+some+corrupt+Christians+who+do+their+business+with+female+donkeys&pg=PT156 |title=One Hundred Years of Solitude |date=11 October 2022 |publisher=Blackstone Publishing |isbn=9798200952090 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} Selim, the main character of Yusuf Atılgan's novel Canistan, has sexual intercourse with Tokuç Ali, the son of the agha. Selim is offended by Tokuç Ali's sexual intercourse with the donkey on the farm before him and leaves Tokuç Ali's farm because he feels that he is considered worthless. Selim, who does not forget what was done to him until his death, raids Tokuç Ali's house with his gang to take revenge years later.{{Cite web |first=Bülent |last=Aytok Özaltiok |date=2011 |title=Yusuf Atılgan'ın romanlarındaki modernist unsurlar |url= https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/tezDetay.jsp?id=RO1rTXzycUWMI1moL_zDaw&no=xJaGeuBR0tzi86K2s6LcZA|access-date=2 March 2022 |website= |publisher=acikbilim.yok.gov.tr}} The relationship between the male and the female donkey is depicted in Sevgi Soysal's book Yürümek.{{Cite book |last=Sabuncu |first=Sevgi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNi-EHJvAxUC&q=ok%C5%9Faya+ok%C5%9Faya,+incitmeden+hayvanca%C4%9F%C4%B1z%C4%B1,+sonra+tabii+hayvan |title=Yürümek: roman |publisher=Sevinç Matbaası |year=1970 |isbn= |location= |page=90 |quote=Eşeğin orasına şöyle, nah şu kadar bir taş bağlarız, okşaya okşaya, incitmeden hayvancağızı, sonra tabii hayvan taşın ağırlığı ve biraz da acıyla art ayaklarını bir güzel açar. Şöyle... O arada sen de arkadan. Artık iskemleye mi çıkarsın, taşa mı çıkarsın... Allah ne verdiyse artık... Haa, en önemlisi... ayağınla taşa hafif hafif basacaksın... Taşa ayağını bastırıp kaldırdıkça... eşeğin orası kalkıp iner... Yuuuuuuh! Tuh allah seni kahretsin! Rezil herif... Aynayı unuttun aynayı... Oldu mu ya, aynasız olmaz bu iş. Eşeğin kulakları arasına bir ayna koymak iyi olur. |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022053417/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=PNi-EHJvAxUC&q=ok%C5%9Faya+ok%C5%9Faya,+incitmeden+hayvanca%C4%9F%C4%B1z%C4%B1,+sonra+tabii+hayvan&dq=ok%C5%9Faya+ok%C5%9Faya,+incitmeden+hayvanca%C4%9F%C4%B1z%C4%B1,+sonra+tabii+hayvan&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz0o7i9MPsAhXLAxAIHSp3Cy8Q6AEwAXoECAAQAg |archive-date=22 October 2020}} The book was banned in Turkey in 1973 on the grounds that it violated the crime of “obscene publications”, and the author was arrested but later acquitted.{{Cite book |url= |title=Yürümek |date=2013 |publisher=İletişim Yayınları |page=6 |language=tr |access-date=}} There is also an article about sexual intercourse with donkeys in Atıf Yılmaz's novel Söylemek Güzeldir.{{Cite book |last=Yılmaz |first=Atıf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaMcAQAAIAAJ&q=%C4%B0lk+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+e%C5%9Fekler+%C3%BCzerinde+denenirdi+.+Tepelerde+,+k%C4%B1rlarda+di%C5%9Fi+e%C5%9Fek+aran%C4%B1r+,+sahibi |title=Söylemek güzeldir |publisher=AFA Yayıncılık |year=1995 |isbn=9754142807 |location= |page=18 |quote=Babam bir de eşek almıştı bana. 9-10 yaşlarındaydım. Eşeğimin erkek oluşunun arkadaşlarımı çok üzüp öfkelendirdiğini hatırlıyorum. Çünkü ilk cinsel ilişki eşekler üzerinde denenirdi. Tepelerde, kırlarda dişi eşek aranır, sahibi yakınlarda mı diye bir bakılır, her ihtimale karşı sağa sola gözcü konurdu. Eşeğin namusu doğal olarak sahibinin namusu demekti. Çifte atmaması için bel kayışıyla, eşeğin arka ayakları bağlanırdı. İşin tehlikesizce sonuçlanması için, eşeğin başının bir başkası tarafından sıkıca tutulması gerekirdi. Sevgili namzedi, bir taşın, kayanın üstüne çıkıp pantolonunu indirirdi. Midemin bu işe girişmeye asla izin vermediğini, bu nedenle ilk cinsel ilişkimin epey geciktiğini söylemeliyim. |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022045907/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=SaMcAQAAIAAJ&q=%C4%B0lk+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+e%C5%9Fekler+%C3%BCzerinde+denenirdi+.+Tepelerde+,+k%C4%B1rlarda+di%C5%9Fi+e%C5%9Fek+aran%C4%B1r+,+sahibi&dq=%C4%B0lk+cinsel+ili%C5%9Fki+e%C5%9Fekler+%C3%BCzerinde+denenirdi+.+Tepelerde+,+k%C4%B1rlarda+di%C5%9Fi+e%C5%9Fek+aran%C4%B1r+,+sahibi&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHoKOW-MPsAhUuxosKHTY3BAgQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg |archive-date=22 October 2020}} In Dario Fo's play Lucio and the Donkey, a man trying to increase his sexual potency drinks the wrong potion and ends up transformed into a donkey, who will be constantly sexually aroused. After the donkey is sold to the circus, he is rented to an aristocratic woman for sexual purposes. Later he works as a sex worker with a slave woman in the circus. He eventually finds the antidote to his metamorphosis and changes back to his human form. He then seeks out the woman he had sexual intercourse as a donkey, but she rejects him.{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Tony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrdMAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22sexually%22+%22donkey%22+-mule%2C+-clinical%2C+-rumi%2C+-cortisol%2C+-asinus%2C+-golden%2C+-serum&pg=PP1 |title=Dario Fo: People's Court Jester |date=8 January 2014 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781408148631 |page=37}}

In the fairy tale Naughty Boy by Turkish writer Mehmet Tuğrul, a boy threatens his father by slandering him for having sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite web |last=Pehlivan |first=Gürol |date=2022 |title=Mehmet Tuğrul'un Kitaplaşan Doktora Tezinde "Uygunsuz" Halk Anlatılarının Yazgısı |url=https://www.academia.edu/85007224 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=academia.edu |publisher=Kekibeç |page=18 |language=tr}} In the story Kerdız in Turkish writer Muharrem Erbey's book Kayıp Şecere, a young man named Faruk loses his sanity after his father catches him trying to have sexual intercourse with the donkey he stole.{{Cite web |last1=Bilgi |first1=Levent |last2=Dinç |first2=Mehmet |date=1 July 2022 |title=Muharrem Erbey'in Öyküleri ve Öykücülüğü |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2516802 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=dergipark.org.tr |page=33 |language=tr}} In Turkish writer Erhan Bener's novel Böcek, the character Recai is caught by his uncle while trying to have intercourse with a donkey with two friends and is severely beaten.{{Cite web |last=Çetindaş |first=Dilek |date=August 2019 |title=Yabancılaşma, Anoreksiya ve Böcekleşme Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Böcek |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336304622 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=researchgate.net |page=72 |language=tr}}

In the 21st century, literary works containing references to sexual intercourse with donkeys have also been written. The character Madoobe in Nuruddin Farah's novel Secrets had a habit of having sexual intercourse with cows, chickens and ostriches. When Madoobe tried to have sex with a female donkey, he was kicked to death. He was later found naked, lying on his back with his penis partially erect.{{Cite web |date=March 2024 |title=Speculative Fiction and Parody: Moral Corruption, Magic and Collapse of Somalia in Nuruddin Farah's Secrets |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379044264 |access-date=27 September 2024 }} In the Moroccan story Liefde onder de olijfboom in Hafid Bouazza's novel De voeten van Abdullah, three young men who set out for their village with the dream of relieving their sexual urges by having sex with a donkey fall asleep under an olive tree, dreaming of the pleasure they would feel if the donkey were female.{{Cite book |last=Louwerse |first=Henriette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVRuhYr79mAC&dq=donkey+satisfying+women&pg=PA93 |title=Homeless Entertainment On Hafid Bouazza's Literary Writing |date=2007 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=9783039113330 |page=93 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} In the book Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, a character named Chen Guangdi is accused of having sex with a donkey and impregnating it.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDb-EAAAQBAJ&dq=sexual+relations+with+donkey&pg=PA209 |title=Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency Global Perspectives on Literature and Film |date=12 September 2022 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781000641882 |pages=209–210 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} A girl named Leoni, one of the characters in Graham Hancock's Entagled, angry with her mother, draws a cartoon in her sketchbook with a magic marker of her mother being mounted by a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Hancock |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_MspFiy5PMC&dq=%22mounted+by+a+donkey%22&pg=PA11 |title=Entangled |date=April 2010 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9781409099802 |page=11}}

In his column in the December 9, 2004 issue of Milliyet newspaper, Çetin Altan described how to have sexual intercourse with a donkey. In his description, he writes that first the donkey is climbed on a brick, then a weight is tied to the donkey's tail, the weight is thrown on the donkey's back, a mirror is used to check whether anyone is coming or going, and since the donkey cannot be kissed during orgasm, the apple is bitten.{{Cite web |first=Çetin |last=Altan |date=4 December 2004 |title=Vaktiyle cinsellikte eşeğin yeri... |url=https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/cetin-altan/vaktiyle-cinsellikte-esegin-yeri-397674 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106023257/http://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/cetin-altan/vaktiyle-cinsellikte-esegin-yeri-397674 |archive-date=6 January 2020 |access-date=16 March 2021 |website= |publisher=milliyet.com.tr}}

In Greek mythology, the onocentaur, a character with a human upper body and a donkey lower body, is believed to have been born from the union of man and donkey.{{Cite book |last1=Austern |last2=Naroditskaya |first1=Linda |first2=Inna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IBSGG9YegwC&dq=onocentaur&pg=PT110 |title=Music of the Sirens |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2006 |isbn=0253112079 |location= |page=101 |access-date=8 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715111022/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=5IBSGG9YegwC&pg=PT110&dq=onocentaur&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2to3K4uTxAhWisKQKHYaaDBo4ZBDoATAGegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=onocentaur&f=false |archive-date=15 July 2021}}

It is written that Balaam had sexual intercourse with his donkey.{{Cite book |last=Ray-Schwartz |first=Donald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCoSAQAAIAAJ&q=that+Balaam+committed+bestiality+with+his+donkey,+an+indication+that+would+demonstrate+without+question+the+depths+to+which+Bilam+had+descended. |title=Noah's Ark: An Annotated Encyclopedia of Every Animal Species in the Hebrew Bible |publisher=J. Aronson |year=2000 |isbn= 978-0-7657-6110-1|location= |page=99 |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215005913/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=HCoSAQAAIAAJ&q=that+Balaam+committed+bestiality+with+his+donkey,+an+indication+that+would+demonstrate+without+question+the+depths+to+which+Bilam+had+descended.&dq=that+Balaam+committed+bestiality+with+his+donkey,+an+indication+that+would+demonstrate+without+question+the+depths+to+which+Bilam+had+descended.&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN_cfhs9zuAhUMxosKHUiID5sQ6AEwAHoECAQQAg |archive-date=15 February 2021}} The Talmud also states that Jesus slept with a donkey on the way to Jerusalem. This statement derogatorily implies that Jesus had sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=Ralph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4HF9Sfsw_cC&q=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass%22 |title=Jesus, King of Edessa: The biblical Jesus discovered in the historical record |publisher=Edfu Books |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905815654 |location= |page=338 |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716100155/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=-4HF9Sfsw_cC&dq=%22sexual+relations+with+an+ass%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s |archive-date=16 July 2021}} An anecdote about a man having sex with a donkey was used by Zoroastrians in the 9th century to make a complex point about the problem of evil in Islam and Christianity: “A man is seen having sex with a donkey. Those who see him ask why he is doing such an abominable thing. The man replies, 'because it is my donkey'.” This anecdote was used to mock the view that God, as the absolute ruler of the universe, cannot be accused of harming/punishing the creatures of the universe.{{Cite book |last=Al-Azdī |first=Abū L-Muṭahhar Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJw3EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+man+was+seen+having+sex+with+an+ass%22&pg=PT21 |title=The Portrait of Abū I-Qāsim Al-Baghdādī Al-Tamīmī |publisher=Gibb Memorial Trust |year=2021 |isbn=978-1913604059 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085424/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=FJw3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT21&lpg=PT21&dq=%22A+man+was+seen+having+sex+with+an+ass%22&source=bl&ots=dxUpQ4HtZS&sig=ACfU3U1-5qX6YJ4Mle_aHaBz3ITsNwSrAQ&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipwezvnuDxAhVUhv0HHZeoAvMQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22A%20man%20was%20seen%20having%20sex%20with%20an%20ass%22&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

The Matsya Purana enjoins that anyone who has sexual intercourse with a donkey should have his head completely shaved.{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Ram Mohan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4raAAAAMAAJ&q=%22intercourse+with+a+donkey+but+for%22 |title=Crime and Punishment in Ancient India With a Particular Reference to the Manusmṛti |publisher=Kanchan Publications |year=1982 |page=137 |access-date=29 September 2024}} References to sexual intercourse with the female donkey appear in Parashara's writings.{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Sukla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQa43r1GyicC&dq=bestial+act+with+a+donkey&pg=PA33 |title=Crime and Punishment in Ancient India, C. A.D. 300 to A.D. 1100 |date=1977 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=9788170170549 |page=33 |language=en |access-date=30 September 2024}} According to the Parasara Dharma Sastra, a person in union with a female animal, including a female donkey, must perform the Prajapatya ritual.{{Cite journal |last=Wibawa |first=Made Aripta |date=5 September 2018 |title=Women's Position on the Hindu Law in the Vivaha Samskara System |journal=Sociological Jurisprudence Journal |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=123–129 |url=https://www.ejournal.warmadewa.ac.id/index.php/sjj/article/view/732 |access-date=4 October 2024 |publisher=ejournal.warmadewa.ac.id}}

Here is a saying of Muhammad, as recorded in the hadith collections of Abu Dawud, Al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasa'i:{{Cite book |last=Youssef |first=Olfa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dr4rDgAAQBAJ&dq=This+matches+another+hadith+by+the+Prophet+told+by+Ab%C5%AB+D%C4%81w%C5%ABd%2C+al+Thirmidh%C4%AB%2C+al+Nis%C4%81%27%C4%AB%2C+and+others%2C+and+which+states&pg=PA122 |title=The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman: Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality |publisher=Lexington Books |year=2017 |isbn=978-1498541701 |location= |page=122 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085419/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=dr4rDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=This+matches+another+hadith+by+the+Prophet+told+by+Ab%C5%AB+D%C4%81w%C5%ABd%2C+al+Thirmidh%C4%AB%2C+al+Nis%C4%81%27%C4%AB%2C+and+others%2C+and+which+states&source=bl&ots=ZHeASdt6T8&sig=ACfU3U1LcXkLJrdHnjDIHQ8lLR-BcC3syw&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWhsmWieDxAhUTLOwKHfAmD-UQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=This%20matches%20another%20hadith%20by%20the%20Prophet%20told%20by%20Ab%C5%AB%20D%C4%81w%C5%ABd%2C%20al%20Thirmidh%C4%AB%2C%20al%20Nis%C4%81'%C4%AB%2C%20and%20others%2C%20and%20which%20states&f=false |archive-date=14 July 2021}}

"A man caught having sexual intercourse with a female donkey must be killed along with the donkey."

According to Ruhollah Khomeini's decree, if a Muslim man decides to sell a donkey with which he has had sexual intercourse, he is forbidden to sell it in his home country.{{Cite book |last=Nowparast |first=Nader F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0f9CwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sexual+relation+with+a+donkey%22&pg=PT122 |title=700 Poetic Points |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |year=2016 |isbn=978-1514477045 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716100210/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=L0f9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT122&lpg=PT122&dq=%22sexual+relation+with+a+donkey%22&source=bl&ots=cwEjeWAWF2&sig=ACfU3U3LPJ0-WKmeSu-koeR2KpbIsPcxoQ&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMnKeXoOfxAhUQPewKHdmsBCMQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22sexual%20relation%20with%20a%20donkey%22&f=false |archive-date=16 July 2021}} According to the book Radd al-Mukhtar, if a woman inserts the penis of a donkey or a severed penis into her body during Hajj, her Hajj is invalid according to the universal consensus.{{Cite book |last=Mubashir |first=Arnab |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOoeEAAAQBAJ&dq=donkey%27s+penis&pg=PA198 |title=The Delights of Modesty |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2020 |isbn=978-0578626673 |location= |page=198 |access-date=28 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806113901/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=VOoeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&dq=donkey%27s+penis&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPq67fxufxAhXm_rsIHQJGCB04MhDoATAJegQICBAC#v=onepage&q=donkey's%20penis&f=false |archive-date=6 August 2021}}

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In the cartoon Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure, two men have sexual intercourse with a donkey.{{Cite web |first=Lucas |last=Mireles |date=1 December 2010 |title=Cartoon Network's Naughty Sister Station: Innovations Of The Adult Swim Network In American Late Night Television Programming |url=https://uh-ir.tdl.org/handle/10657/174 |access-date=14 March 2021 |website= |publisher=uh-ir.tdl.org}} In the 1959 Turkish film Tütün Zamanı, based on the novel of the same name, in the scene where Bekir takes the photograph of Zeliş, the woman he is in love with, and goes to the barn with his donkey, the director hints at a zoophilic relationship, but there is no such scene in the novel.{{Cite web |last=Oylum |first=Rıza |date=2016 |title=Türk Sinemasında Necati Cumalı Uyarlamaları |url=https://acikerisim.trakya.edu.tr/server/api/core/bitstreams/76012bf3-2e90-404a-aff3-717c7b739c6f/content |website=acikerisim.trakya.edu.tr |page=53 |language=tr}} In the 1970s, it became common for women to have sexual intercourse with donkeys and similar animals in pornographic films. In the same period, it became relatively more acceptable to include jokes about sex with donkeys in humorous films, dramas and magazines.{{Cite book |last=Hunt |first=Morton M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iBoEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22copulating+with+a+male+animal+such+as+a+pony+,+donkey+or+large+dog+,+but+never+a+man+copulating+with+a+female+animal+.%22 |title=Sexual Behavior in the 1970s |date=1974 |publisher=Playboy Press |isbn=9780872233935 |page=353 |language=en |access-date=2 October 2024}} Animal Lover, a porn movie starring Bodil Joensen, was released in New York in 1973. Playing for 1 year in mini theaters, Animal Lover was the first feature-length film about bestiality and featured Joensen having sex with a dog, a donkey and a pig.{{Cite journal |last=Slade |first=Joseph W. |date=1975 |title=Recent Trends in Pornographic Films |url= |journal=Society |publisher=link.springer.com |volume=12 |issue=6 |pages=77–84 |doi=10.1007/BF02696892 |access-date=}} In the movie Padre Padrone, Sardinians have their first sexual experiences with farm animals.{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Film / Padre Padrone |url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PadrePadrone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813150256/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PadrePadrone |archive-date=13 August 2020 |access-date=2 July 2021 |website= |publisher=tvtropes.org}} In the movie, the shepherd is seen having sexual intercourse with his donkey, sheep and chickens.{{Cite web |first=Leticia |last=Kent |date=16 October 1977 |title=The Brothers Behind 'Padre Padrone' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/16/archives/the-brothers-behind-padre-padrone.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709201630/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/16/archives/the-brothers-behind-padre-padrone.html |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=The New York Times}} In the movie Quando l'amore è oscenità, a farmer hires a prostitute to have sex with his donkey.{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Quando l'amore è oscenità (1980) |url=https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1867234/ |access-date=15 March 2021 |website= |publisher=imdb.com}} In the 1986 Turkish film Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, Kerim and his friends try to have sexual intercourse with a donkey before raping the female character Fatmagül.{{Cite book |last=Çavuş |first=Burak |title=Edebiyattan Sinemaya Yoksulluk |date=26 October 2023 |publisher=Hiperlink Eğitim İletişim Yayın Gıda Sanayi ve Pazarlama Tic. Ltd. Şti. |isbn=9786256482562 |language=tr}} Stanley Beckford's Donkey Man, released in 1993, is a humorous song about a man caught having sex with a donkey.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAc5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22having+sex+with+a+donkey%22 |title=The Beat, 26. cilt,2-4. sayılar |publisher=Bongo Productions |year=2007 |isbn= |location= |page=64 |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085421/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=aAc5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22having+sex+with+a+donkey%22&dq=%22having+sex+with+a+donkey%22&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6go-FkeDxAhVFgf0HHTXXCTsQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg |archive-date=14 July 2021}} In the opening scene of the 1998 Italian film Toto Who Lived Twice, the audience, after watching a scene in the theater about a man having sexual intercourse with a donkey, engages in synchronized masturbation in the cinema's toilet after the scene ends.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oA-MNVD0FLUC&dq=%22An+example+is+the+beginning+of+the+film,+where+the+cinema+audience,+after+watching+a+film+where+a+man+performs+sex+with+a+donkey,+is+seen+in+synchronised+masturbation+in+the+cinema%E2%80%99+toilet.+The+carnivalesque+in+Cipr%C3%AC%22&pg=PA105 |title=New Trends in Audiovisual Translation |date=15 April 2009 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=9781847695338 |editor-last=Cintas |editor-first=Jorge Díaz |page=105}} In the pornography film Border Trash, Alaura Eden refuses a policeman's offer of sex, saying that she would rather have sex with a donkey than with him.{{cite journal |last1=Hernandez |first1=Yessica Garcia |title=Border Trash: the markings of Latinas as foreign bodies |journal=Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory |date=2 January 2022 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=8–30 |doi=10.1080/0740770X.2023.2206187 }} The scene in the 'Donkey Ass' video, in which a half-naked and panicked man in a field is first chased and then mounted by a donkey with sexual intentions, has become popular on the internet.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wIfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22mounted+by+a+donkey%22 |title=New York |publisher=New York Magazine Company |year=2000 |volume=33 |page=55}}

The closing credits of the 2007 version of The Heartbreak Kid show a female character having sex with a donkey.{{Cite book |last=Albarrán-Torres |first=César |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GcsQEAAAQBAJ&dq=the+heartbreak+kid+donkey+scene&pg=PT35 |title=Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood's Cartel Wars |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=9781000352511 |location= |page= |pages= |access-date=4 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184313/https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=GcsQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&dq=the+heartbreak+kid+donkey+scene&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1lazx8MnxAhWKUcAKHammBjwQ6AEwAnoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=the%20heartbreak%20kid%20donkey%20scene&f=false |archive-date=9 July 2021}} The 2007 short documentary Asses of the Caribbean is about men who have sex with donkeys on a daily basis because ultra-religious women do not want to have sex before marriage.{{Cite web |date=18 February 2015 |title=Bestiality is much, much more common than you think |url=https://www.news24.com/health24/Sex/Sexual-diversity/Bestiality-is-much-much-more-common-than-you-think-20150218 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124184731/https://www.news24.com/health24/Sex/Sexual-diversity/Bestiality-is-much-much-more-common-than-you-think-20150218 |archive-date=24 November 2021 |access-date=24 November 2021 |publisher=news24.com}} In the canceled Kazakh dark comedy My Brother, Borat, the director shoot a scene in which the character Bilo is raped by a donkey.{{cite news |date=November 23, 2010 |title=Kazakhstan director shoots Borat sequel |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11811933 |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=BBC News}} Donkey Love, a documentary film about Colombian men's relationship with donkeys, was released in 2012.{{Cite web |first=Vince |last=Mancini |date=12 October 2012 |title=A documentary about Colombians having sex with donkeys. This exists. |url=https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/donkey-love-documentary-about-colombians-having-sex-with-donkeys/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111230706/https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/donkey-love-documentary-about-colombians-having-sex-with-donkeys/ |archive-date=11 November 2020 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= |publisher=uproxx.com}}{{Cite web |first=Andrew |last=Taylor |date=14 September 2012 |title=Donkey sex gets thumbs-up from censors |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/donkey-sex-gets-thumbsup-from-censors-20120914-25x24.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205163143/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/donkey-sex-gets-thumbsup-from-censors-20120914-25x24.html |archive-date=5 December 2020 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= |publisher=smh.com.au}}{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Donkey Love |url=http://www.newfilmmakersonline.com/movie-download/51831,4839/Daryl-Stoneage-Donkey-Love |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714085421/http://www.newfilmmakersonline.com/movie-download/51831,4839/Daryl-Stoneage-Donkey-Love |archive-date=14 July 2021 |access-date=13 July 2021 |website= |publisher=newfilmmakersonline.com}} In the second episode of the Colombian special series of the car program The Grand Tour, a scene of sexual intercourse with a donkey is seen.{{Cite web |first=Jeremy |last=Clarkson |date=3 February 2019 |title=Cheat, love, bray — let me put my ass on the line and tell you that the donkey sex scene was real |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/jeremy-clarkson-cheat-love-bray-let-me-put-my-ass-on-the-line-and-tell-you-that-the-donkey-sex-scene-was-real-2zrpzczz0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023718/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jeremy-clarkson-cheat-love-bray-let-me-put-my-ass-on-the-line-and-tell-you-that-the-donkey-sex-scene-was-real-2zrpzczz0 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website= |url-status=live |publisher=The Times}} A lawsuit was filed against 7 people claiming that a scene in the Turkish cartoon Maysa and Bulut depicts “sexual abuse of a donkey”.{{Cite web |date=3 October 2019 |title=TRT 'eşeğe cinsel istismar' tartışmasında 7 kişiye dava açmış! |url=https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2019/gundem/trt-esege-tecavuz-tartismasinda-7-kisiye-dava-acmis-5368495/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005150615/https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2019/gundem/trt-esege-tecavuz-tartismasinda-7-kisiye-dava-acmis-5368495/ |archive-date=5 October 2019 |access-date=4 July 2021 |website=sozcu.com.tr }}

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