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 by tourists), 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 …

This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2014.

5 replies on “Ask a Mexican!”

  1. I guess that’s why the whores down in Ciudad Juarez as far back as the early 60’s, would walk around the bar sticking things like smoking pipes, cigarettes, etc. into their genitals. It was the Gringo’s fault! In fact, the reason Mexican illegals in general, are so pathetic is because of the Gringos! This “Mexican” (the author) must be related to Obama. Everything he does wrong must be Bush’s fault. Everything the illegals do, is the Gringo’s fault. Let me guess, the “Mexican” is an active member of La Raza!!!

  3. Asking a Mexican is ok, as long as when you ask them if they are an American and they answer yes. If they come back with Mexican, then you and he can stay Stuck On Stupid!

  4. I have supported protests in this country because things do change. But when there are protests for immigration that include illegals here in America it really boils my blood. Law enforcement should raid these protests and arrest and deport those who are illegal.
    First of all these illegals are felons by breaking federal law by being here. If they have no respect for our laws in the first place, they disrespect the people that are doing the right thing but trying to enter our country going through the right channels. If you disrespect our laws we DON’T WANT YOU HERE!!
    You are going to make this great country of ours onto a 3rd World Country.

    An American the right way

  5. If you don’t like it, we don’t like it either. In fact, this is Mexico in our minds is still Mexico. Don’t you forget this was our land first and we had this land for over 200 years. Mexicans are only coming to their land. Don’t you remember it was stolen by our government at gunpoint. By the way, Mexicans come illegal. Is there only Mexicans in the world. There are white people from Europe coming through, there is Jamaicans and central Americans and South Americans. There is Africans and Asians maybe not so many but people all over the world come through our south and north border. Also, a Mexican is an American too. North America is from Mexico to Canada. Like it or not we are here to stay. Check out through your window if you live in Mexican land your streets are name in Spanish. Face it, our country is only good with illegals working and citizens of Hispanic heritage. They are your backbone. You depend on them. Not too many Americans wants to clean bathrooms or go work in the fields, or in Construction. Now as time is going by Hispanics are more educated and they are now everywhere even in Politics. Talk about disrespecting laws would you like it if they come to your house at gunpoint and still your property. No, I don’t think so. Well, that is exactly how Mexico felt. Mexico could have got its land back but because of atomic bombs they didn’t you know why because Mexico don’t want innocent people at stake that’s including you and anybody not after U.S dropped two atomic bombs to innocent people. So please learn something and don’t be blind by politics. People flee countries were U.S was involved, back then, they were involved in coups and destroyed their economy with the corporations that’s why now immigration of south of the border is so bad. Read the book Overthrown. The U.S. government didn’t know that 50 years later, people would immigrate like now. That’s all I have to say. Overthrown, great book.

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