Bestiality with donkeys is more common in rural areas, especially in South Asia, the Middle East, Colombia, and Morocco compared with other regions, though cases occur elsewhere.
These include depictions on or in gas lamps, steles, paintings, films, pornography, theater shows, cartoons, novels, poems, jokes, slang, and folk tales.
[32] In History of the Wars, Byzantine historian Procopius wrote that the Heruli, especially those with donkeys, copulated in an "unholy manner";[33] scholars believe his claims were likely exaggerated.
[42] 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.
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.
[52] 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.
[56] 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.
[67] 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.
There are expressions in Turkish that mean “Our national bride is donkey.”[69] 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?”.
[74] The walls of the Bharkor road leading to Jokhang Temple in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, considered sacred by Tibetans, have been covered with perverted paintings and announcements by the Chinese state aimed at weakening religious belief.
[79] İlhan Başgöz and religious historian Julian Baldick claim that in Shamanist societies in Central Asia, young people had sexual intercourse with donkeys.
[56] An anonymous researcher conducting anthropological fieldwork in rural Algeria saw a young man nervously having sexual intercourse with a donkey the day before his wedding.
[120] 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.
[134] 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.
[135] 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.
[136] 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.
[144] 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.
[149] 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.
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.
[163] 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.
[176] 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.
[184] 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?”.
[188] 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.
[200] 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.
[208] 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.
[209] 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.
[211] 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.
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.
[232] 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.
[236] 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.