Don't have an account yet? Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. 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. 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.
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 anthology, Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, ss , 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 , 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. Three years later, the search for a donkey show in Tijuana is a plot point in the Tom Cruise film, Losin' It ; by the mids, 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 Year-Old Virgin to Two and a Half Men and more.
This proves once again that Hollywood's stereotyping of Mexicans hasn'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?
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Are there sex shows between humans and animals in Mexico? I'm sure there are, just as 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 issue of the St. Louis-based medical journal The Urologic and Cutaneous Review , in which a doctor recalled a case 25 years earlier in which spectators at such a show 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. Ask the Mexican at themexican askamexican. All rights reserved. We use cookies to collect and analyze information on site performance and usage, and to enhance and customize content and advertisements.
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