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Dear Mexican: I’ve heard that the Tijuana donkey show featuring a female whore is not real other than the fact that they do bring out a donkey and do some simulation for people who are drunk.
Down-Low Loco
Dear Gabacho: You’re right. And after months of research, the Mexican can confirm the full history of donkey shows, the supposed borderlands specialty in which women have sex with donkeys before a live, paying audience. Not only are they not a thing in Tijuana (or Juarez or Acapulco or anywhere in Mexico frequented bytourists), they’re actually a wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves. None of the Tijuana Bibles, the infamous X-rated comics of the Great Depression that showed all sorts of depredations, make any mention of such shows south of the border (the excellent 1997 anthology, Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America’s Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s, even points out that the foul funnies got their name not because they were made in Mexico but “as a gleefully sacrilegious pre-NAFTA slur against Mexicans”). The earliest published account even mentioning donkey sex shows in Mexico doesn’t pop up until 1975, in the book Binding with Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church. Before that, mentions of “donkey shows” in newspapers, books, or magazines were exactly that: donkeys on display at county fairs, and nothing else.
But after porn star Linda Lovelace claimed her then-husband was going to force her to get “fucked by a donkey in Juarez, Mexico” in her 1980 memoir, Ordeal, the act quickly seeped into mainstream American culture. Three years later, the search for a donkey show in Tijuana is a plot point in the Tom Cruise film, Losin’ It; by the mid-1980s, a pioneering ska band called themselves The Donkey Show—based out of San Diego, no less. Really, the biggest culprit in spreading the donkey show myth is Hollywood—in the past decade alone, there’s been mention of the act in at least a dozen high-profile projects, from The 40-Year-Old Virgin to Two-and-a-Half Men and more. This proves once again that Hollywood’s stereotyping of Mexicans haven’t changed in a century—but what else do you expect from screenwriters (notwithstanding the awesome writers at the new ABC sitcom Cristela and the upcoming FOX cartoon, Bordertown, for which I’m a consultant) who know Mexicans mostly as their nannies, car washers, gardeners, cooks, and the janitors in their offices?
Are there sex shows between humans and animals in Mexico? I’m sure there are, just like there are in the United States—in fact, the earliest account I could find of people paying to see a woman-donkey coupling is in the November 1915 issue of the St. Louis-based medical journal The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, in which a doctor recalled a case 25 years earlier where spectators at such a show (including “a judge, sons of a social reformer, and a secretary of a girl’s aid society”) were criminally tried after a woman died during the copulation. But leave it to gabachos to stereotype such debauchery as being as exclusively Mexican as the Aztec pyramids and a corrupt government. Pinche gabachos…
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Too bad,,, that was one of the things I liked about Mexico..they should capitalize on that and make it a show after bullfighting..definitely would draw a crowd for some good, family friendly fun,maybe….don’t be ashamed, its cool and would fit in with Mexico… Like cockfighting, I hope it sti exists
Then what’s with all the pictures on the web? (I’m NOT going to provide links.)
Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273) poem, “The Importance of Gourdcrafting,”
“There was a maidservant
who had cleverly trained a donkey
to perform the services of a man.
From a gourd,
she had carved a flanged device
to fit on the donkey’s penis,
to keep him from going too far into her.
She had fashioned it just to the point
for her pleasure, and she greatly enjoyed
the arrangement, as often as she could!”.
I doubt the idea that a woman could die, the most remarkable thing about those stories is people have believed them, although Frederick the Great’s scurrilous stories about Catherine of Russia may have been an important reason why Prussia was devastated.
Bodil Johansson of Denmark more or less created the porn genre. And those Mexican shows are not simulated, they simply don’t exist. The old no-show corner game practiced on hapless tourists everywhere.
I lived around the Texas border town of Ciadad Acuna in 1969. At that time I heard about a popular show in one of the bars of “Boystown”, which was a little community outside of town made up of seedy bars and putas. I never did see a show, but I heard from other people who said they did. Whether that is true of not, I don’t know. Nonetheless I do know that the rumor of the donkey show long precedes any 1975 reference.
The gachupines not the gabachos.
The donkey show existed in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino until 1992 when they were shut down for the Olympics.
Total hearsay from an Army pal who served in Panama in the ’70s: he saw just such an exhibition there & the astonishing part was the audience was invited to participate, for a fee! at the conclusion of the main event. Even more astonishing, some did. In conclusion, he did say he spent everyday of his tour smoking Panama red so factor that in when assessing his credibility.
so the tales of donkey shows are just “bourbon legends,” as the noted philosopher Donnie Baker stypes them?
August 1977, fresh out of boot camp, we went to TJ in search of the fabled donky woman show. Later we were told to look in Ensenada. My lead P.O. on my first ship allowed that he and his buddies did the same in 1962.
Well it seemed more interesting than any other Mexinvention around. Que lastima
I wouldn’t know. I halted my infrequent visits to mehico when they started kidnapping and shooting everyone in sight. Even worse than south central.
I’m in Socal visiting…where are all the gringos? You can tell the barrios by the bars on the windows. In Chinotown, no bars.
LOL. The Mexican can take a punch.
In boxing there’s that great phrase “he’s starting to walk through the punches”.
Let the whitey keeping punching, the Mex is gonna keep on coming!
Prussia was defeated by the Russians under Elizabeth, not Catherine (her successor with the minor detail of a murdered husband). And Frederick died 10 years before Catherine.
I knew those stories were bogus. What donkey could get it up for a fat Mexican puta?
I heard about this and I didnt think this really existed. This is the most weirdest thing I ever heard of. When I go to Mexico I will not be attending anything like that.