Donkey show

{{Short description|Sex show portraying bestiality}}

{{about|a type of live sex show|the comedy album by The Bob & Tom Show|Donkey Show (album)|the adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream|The Donkey Show (musical)}}

File:Donkey-bar.jpg, Mexico advertising a nightly "donkey's show"]]

A donkey show is a type of live sex show in which a woman engages in bestiality with a donkey,{{cite news |title=Foreign Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W18EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103 |quote='the donkey show,' which highlighted a Catherine the Great-style coupling| volume=45 |issue=6 |work=Los Angeles Magazine |date=June 1, 2000 |access-date=2010-04-25 }}{{cite book |author=Jim Dawson |title=Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart |year=1999 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |quote=There was a time when guys would boast of having seen a girl-and-donkey show in Tijuana, Mexico.| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLSXmhudzOQC&pg=PA155 |isbn=1-58008-011-1 }} which, according to urban legend and some works of fiction, were once performed in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, particularly in the mid-20th century.

Gustavo Arellano, in his Ask a Mexican column, argues that such donkey shows are not real.{{Cite news|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/news/ask-a-mexican-are-donkey-shows-really-a-thing-in-mexico-6432071|title=¡Ask a Mexican: Are Donkey Shows Really a Thing in Mexico?|last=Arellano|first=Gustavo|date=2014-10-16|newspaper=OC Weekly|access-date=2017-01-01}}

As late as 2008, they have been mentioned as a reason to visit Tijuana, and naïve tourists may seek them out.{{cite book |title= Nor-tec rifa!: electronic dance music from Tijuana to the world |series= Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music |chapter= Where's the Donkey Show, Mr. Mariachi? Reterritorialing TJ|author=Alejandro L. Madrid, Alejandro Luis Madrid-González |edition= illustrated |publisher= Oxford University Press US |year= 2008 |isbn= 9780195342628 |pages= 16, 115, 145, 217 (footnote 2), 220 (footnote 41) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2W6uYsvqroC }}

In 2005, the term is claimed to be used to describe a situation that has become a "complete mess", for example the government and the news media outlets.{{cite book|author=Jonathon Green |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&dq=%22donkey+show%22+sex&pg=PA428 |title=Cassell's dictionary of slang |access-date=2010-05-21 |year=2005 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |isbn = 9780304366361}}