Good to see the guy doing well in U.K. I find it strange that his profile says he is born in Tailand and yet his website is in Chinese... As far as I know Tai and Chinese speak two completely different languages. Anyone happen to have an explaination?
Many thanks to Hung Lo who has contacted me through myspace and told me about this thread! Cheers dude!
I have just read through this loooong thread, very interesting opinions and I must admit I do agree with the majority of the points raised! Even though it generally does point out the crappy reception asian guys have had so far in the industry.
I havent had a bad run though and I think it is definitly fair to say that times may be changing!!? I have been performing for 3 months now and have had an amazing response in the uk. 20 scenes in 10 weeks is prolific even if I do say so myself! There isnt tons of work over here and not very many performers, let alone asian guys and to be as busy as I have been is really a great thing! All of the scenes I have shot so far have been pure fire and every producer has rebooked or planned to rebook me so perhaps I will stay busy and you might see more asian on white/black/latin/asian stuff out there!?
I dunno if the mods here would consider this self promotion? If so sorry about that but here is a few places you can find me, I have come on a long way since these scenes but they are my earliest jobs and the first few were shot with my girl Kyra. Since then I have shoot tons more and with white, latin and black girls for much bigger budget productions...
All the rest of the scenes I have performed in are for satellite and dvd productions. I will let anyone who wants to know what they are called as soon as they are released!
If anyone wants to know any more about me, probably aint that interesting but here are some other threads which kinda give you an idea of what the uk's response was to my arrival? [invalid URL removed]Who is Keni Styles?, [invalid URL removed]my second ad and [invalid URL removed]my blog on my escorting old profile.
Funny enough there is one dvd called 'pump action 2' where I was cast for 3 scenes and played a ninja assasin!! lol hows that for type casting eh!!?
Well anyways I hope that I have answered some questions about who I am and that oneday I might get a chance to do some stuff over in the states!!? My friend is going to LA on the 1st of Nov to shoot with a company who organise an event called 'porn week' I think you can google it but I am hoping he can help get my foot in the US door and perhaps I'll be over soonish?
All we fans can do here is show our desire to see more AM/WF movies. It's now up to the directors to give us the series we want. I was hoping Wang would start a serie like this with his background and all.
Rick Lee gets quality talent (asian-man.com)he fucks all the top young hotties like Kelsey Michaels,Maryanne,Allie Sin,and recently Evelyn Lin,Miko Sinz,Kylie Richards and Leah Wilde.
As for Rick Lee, it's time he gets some competition like I've said before and that shouldn't be too hard because his camerawork and editing isn't the best. The girls he uses mostly are.
Well I think a friendly competitive nudge would make Mr Lee raise his game a bit! The girls are gorgeous but is it me or does Rick have a very steady and repetitive rythmn? I think he needs to switch it up a bit and yeah I agree definitly need to show your face!
My website guys are aiming for a launch in may 2007 and I assure you I wanna put a sweat on and raise the bar a little!
I guess if I wanna rep the AM performers then I wanna do it good right?
For me a face of a guy is not really that important but I do think Rick Lee needs to be more creative. It's always the same things. I mean at least hire a camera guy and less POV shots in my opinion. But maybe it's that amateur feel he's aiming for.
Btw Keni Styles, do you have plans to go to the US and make movies there?
"For me a face of a guy is not really that important but I do think Rick Lee needs to be more creative. It's always the same things. I mean at least hire a camera guy and less POV shots in my opinion. But maybe it's that amateur feel he's aiming for."
His mentor might be Ed Powers of the Dirty Debuntante(DD) fame. Has he reach the 400 video mark yet?
I not sure if he has a camera person in alot of them but it just adds to the charm of the scenes; kind of intimate if you ask me - get up apologizing to the viewers while adjusting the camera angles and so forth. He does it all too; selection of the ladies, props, dialog, script??? - producer, director and actor.
Plus and it a big one; if you get hook on Ed; I gets you kind of treat him as an aquaintance or someone you know because of the vast and long time span of this DD series.
He got a good job if you ask me! Ed Powers is the "average Joe"; the everyday man; and that makes it attractive to a massive market place.
Forgot the most important; he uses begining talent! And alot of them turn into full time pornstars with a few being superstars! Alot of guys like to see what the first porno video she did was and it is in DD! with Ed.
I wanna get things prepared and set and I wanna do great things. Its a huge industry but I will sneak in there somewhere I hope!
I am going to the Venus festival in Berlin next week and a good friend of mine is going to introduce me to a few of the US producers she knows and I hope that perhaps with a little luck and charm I might be able to make some moves!
I'll keep y'all informed, well anyone who's interested anyways! lol!
I am Rick Lee btw, and just to clarify things. I don't really consider myself a "pornographer" nor a performer, thus many of the angles, location, make up, etc. is not up to industry standard. That job is for the wanker wangs and the bobby manilas of the world. I am really just a swinger who discovered how to put pictures and videos on the net, nothing more. Think of my site as a sexual journal not really a porn site and you will understand why after 5 years and hundreds of girls on video, I have yet to even bother looking for someone to distribute dvds.
This has never been about money to me nor creating a "porn site/business". This is a hobby for me thus it is good to see an interest in porn featuring asian men and newcomers like Kenni who enjoy being in front of the camera without the need of being anonymous.
Rick Lee can't you sell your content to Sticky Video so they can release your work the way it should just like they release the West Coast Gang Bang serie which you're a part of. I own all 20 volumes of this serie they released so far. It's one of my favorite serie!
In order to buy your movies I want a worthy release with at least a nice boxcover/artwork and a decent DVD transfer. Not just some clips burned on a DVD.
What's the word? been a while since I checked back here. I recently got hold of one of my videos, god damn I'm skinny lol I don't think I will be doing anything for while, not until I bulk up and get bigger. This shit is old... its suppose to be a college party simulation, so don't mind the lighting. let me know what you think, here is the link:
It's more than visual -- there's no British Brad Pitt (Hugh Grant isn't relaxed enough), or Latin Brad Pitt (Antonio Banderas is not boy-next-door enough), etc. In fact, there's not another American Brad Pitt. I'm trying to imagine the Asian Brad Pitt. I want to get a handle on the concept.
Yes why aren't there Asian men in porn? It would make a change from the same old, same old. Men of all other ethnicities are represented (Jewish, Black, European, Russian, South American etc.), so Asian men should be too. I would like to see some Asian men make an appearance myself.
I didn't say anything about achieving, I said that kids were pushed to achieve. It is not stereotype, the pressure is real enough in a large percentage of middle income & higher Asian families. I am (and was) Chinese American & know a number of the same. It is a common experience for the children of Chinese (& other sundry Asian) immigrants. The kids of the next generation have it easier. Trust me when I say that if you don't have a stubborn independant streak it can numb your mind to the rest of life.
Well I suppose one of the things that is interesting about porn is that it does reflect culture just like any other art form - that's why there are courses on porn studies at some colleges.
So I have to say that it is racist of our society to basically say that Asian males don't have sex and that they are sexless.
You'd be surprised at how few white guy parts there are in Asian cinema and how stereotyped they are. Like the evil guy in an American movie having a German accent or the snobbish twit having an English accent.
Given the amount of people starting threads on white women/black men threads and the IR lines out there that play to stereotype, I'd say that porn reflects at least some of the dark fantasies of society. However I didn't say that Asian men don't have sex. Well I suppose I did with the "all natural instinct". But at least for an income group (and statistics back this up), Asian males are pushed to excel and porn is not excelling in life. The pressure to be good the first time (and right first time every time) and excellent the second time does not make for a personality that fits with porn.
Are you serious? You seem to be ultra defensive. What does average income(or the implied average educational levels) of an ethnic or racial group have to do with this subject?
If you are really Asian, you know that there are lots of poor Asians in this country ...often working to pay off debts of passage into America.... even a person remotely connected to the Asian community is aware of this...... In New York , Philly , Bay Area and metro areas across the country there are pockets of poor Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotian,etc... often here illegally and working for below minimum wage...often being exploited by their fellow Asians.
If being "poor" and "option less" is the road to porn, as you are implying,....producers would be raiding China-town and immigrant Asian sections in big cities for talent. They would be cheap and never ending supply of talent.
If this topic insults you or if you think Asians are being degraded , then say so.....but the stuff you're saying doesn't make sense. And I don't think that you even believe it.
"We are pushed to excel so that's why we don't enter porn"...come on, man.....
I'm Chinese as well,there are plently of reasons why Asians in porn are relatively few(even including the females)-Asians in general are just very practical.There's not much money to be had,and,99.9% of the time, no future in porn,disease is rampant,and generally if one is the offspring of poor immigrants,they don't want to disrespect their (usually) hard working parents by sucking on and being fucked by monster cock onscreen for a few bucks(or plowing skanks,as the case may be).
I happen to think that if there was a big market for it, that producers would make it...
What both you and Croy said doesn't explain the popularity of JAV and other forms of Asian pornography in Asia.... "Native" Japanese, Koreans, etc...same culture as you say....same habits...practicality etc......, adhered to perhaps more rigidly than Asian American cultures but it exists in droves in Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc.... how would you explain that?
If the genre took off tomorrow....companies would find scores of people willing to do it....at least enough to flood the market... would just need less than 100 actors and actresses out of "how many Asian/Asian Americans in this country"? it wouldn't be hard......
Asian pornstars make vids for the same reasons as their counterparts all over the world-for the money,fun,or perversion,lol.But the percentage of Asians that actually perform in pornography is miniscule. the AM/XF genre is like any other niche-if companies start making great porn with really hot chicks,and they find and hire guys that don't fit the stereotype(geeky,underhung)and can fuck them well,it'll take off.The only person that applies to currently is Rick Lee of asian-man.com,he pounded the likes of Kelsey Michaels,Maryanne,Leah Wilde,Lorena Sanchez,etc.
Sure there are a lot of poor Asians. I haven't been one of them so I didn't tell you about them. Can't tell you what motivates them. I can tell you how, on average, a demographic group raises their kids. Both from personal experience and talking to others. The push to succeed is real and there are numbers to back this up too. You don't know what income and education has to do with it? Then you need to see all kinds of studies that show how education and income affect health and the choices people make. But being Asian really didn't help the observation that there are poor Asians (as well as others). Having eyes did.
Defensive? If you want to see it that way. If you go to your local porn store, you can see titles that cater to some racial cliches. In fact most of the IR genre. There is a reason why a guy takes the screen name "Mandingo".
If I wanted to say that being poor is the road to porn, I would have said so. Lurkers can testify that I have no problem saying what is on my mind. What I actually did say is that many Asians are pushed a lot in other directions. Like it or not, the majority of society does not see being in porn as successful. You will find that in other threads I have pointed out that there is money to be made in porn.
If the topic insulted me, I would have said so.
If it doesn't make sense to you, move on. But if you can't make heads or tails of it, then you aren't in any position to tell if I believe it or not - that would require comprehension.
It is a fact of life that there are societal pressures on people that do influence their lives.
No one in ANY ethnic group is encouraged to go into porn since it's a rebellious thing to do. That's not the only thing that is going on here. Afterall, Jewish men are amongst the highest-educated and successful in society and yet many of them go into porn - Ron Jeremy being the most famous of course with others like Herschel Savage and Seymore Butts.
Yeah, that pressure of being the first generation here and being brought up by immigrants is a bit different than what those more integrated get. No 24/7 pushing. Note that you used another stereotype. From what I understand from my Jewish friends that I grew up with, the attitude towards sex and relationships is different than first generation immigrant Asians. Not being encouraged is a whole lot different from being actively discouraged.
A lot of interesting and thoughtful responses here!
(and all this time I thought the dearth of male Asian pornstars was due to their genitalia having that blurry appearance that just doesn't lend itself well to visual media)