Asia Carrera
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Asia Carrera (born Jessica Steinhauser on ✦August 6, 1973, in New York City) is a former American pornographic actress.
Early life and education
Asia Carrera was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother[ and is the oldest of four siblings. She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending Little Silver Public Schools and Red Bank Regional High School.
She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16, she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan. When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically.
She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa.
Adult film career
Carrera worked during the early 1990s as a dancer at several go-go bars in her home state of New Jersey.
After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine, she put together a demo porn tape in 1993. At the end of that year, she relocated to California to break into the pornography business, and she announced her retirement at the end of 2003. She is sometimes credited as Asia or Jessica Bennett.
Carrera has also been involved in writing, producing, and directing movies, as well as doing all her own make-up and hair styling, and doing much of the hair and make-up for other actresses in the same movies.
As is common practice among Pornographic film actresses, the name "Asia Carrera" is a pseudonym. According to interviews, she chose the stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons.
After her contract with Vivid expired in the mid-1990s, Carrera had her right labia minora pierced and has henceforth had a variety of 1/2" gold rings affixed there ever since. At this time, she also had her first breast enlargement, going from a medium B to at least a full C cup. She has had at least one subsequent breast surgery and is now a D cup or larger.
Carrera performed only a few anal sex scenes during her career. Her first scene in the movie A is for Asia (a film to which she owned all the rights) which occurred after her contract with Vivid finished.
Other interests
Carrera has an active presence on the Internet and describes herself as "the nerd of porn". She proudly proclaims that she created her own Web site in the late 1990s, including writing the code and editing the pictures.
She is also an avid player of Unreal Tournament. She designed her own game skins and was featured in the show Players on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." Carrera hosted her own Unreal Tournament server that featured custom maps designed by fans that frequented the chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997.
She is also a Corvette aficionado but traded hers in after starting a family.
Carrera is an outspoken atheist. "I've always been an atheist; Science explains everything."
Asia also lent her voice to a number of hentai movies, such as Inmu and Shusaku.
Personal life
In 1995, Carrera married Pornographic film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003 after a long separation but continue to remain good friends. Carrera dated Clarke, a former grip from her porn sets, for a few years until his visa expired and he returned to England. Soon after, she married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to Saint George, Utah, where Carrera gave birth to her first daughter, Catalina, on March 4, 2005. While she was almost eight months pregnant with their second baby, Don was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. In an expression of concern about her livelihood and worries about not being able to support their two children on her own, Carrera began to solicit donations on her personal website. Eventually, though, Carrera got a message from an insurance company that a life insurance policy she had forgotten about did exist for her husband. After a mandatory investigation, she was granted it and thus announced that the financial crisis was over.
Their son, who was born on July 31, 2006, was initially to be named Devin; but she decided, after Lemmon's death, to name him Donald Edward Lemmon III. She gave birth to her son at home unassisted. She and Don had planned for the birth to be unassisted, but after his death, she was offered free midwifery services; she was unsure whether she wanted to give birth alone without her husband. The birth occurred 11 days before the estimated due date, while a midwife was en route.
On May 13, 2007, she announced on her website that she had filed a request to legally change her son's name to Devin D'Artagnan Lemmon in honor of Devin DeVasquez, the woman who first introduced her to Donald. She explained that "He's not Don, he never will be Don, and it made me want to start crying every time a random stranger would say, 'Oh he's so cute, what's his name?'" The state, however, made an error in changing his name and kept the "III" after his name.
She grew tired of all the impostors and posted her authentic profile at MySpace.
On March 18, 2007 she announced on her Blog that once her merchandise inventory was gone she "will probably" shut down her website. "I've got to give my kids their anonymity. I need to back away from being famous so my kids can grow up without being ostracized by their peers for who their mommy was."
Commentary on the Susan Russell pornography case
In 2006, Carrera was asked for commentary by The Spectrum, a St. George-area newspaper, on the local case of Susan Russell, who was charged with 15 counts of third-degree felony distribution of pornographic material. Russell allegedly sold pornographic materials and sex toys from a back room in her Earrings and More store, potentially violating the "community standards" of the Mormon-dominated town per the Miller v. California Supreme Court case. Carrera opined:
- "I deliberately moved to St. George with my husband so we could raise our kids in a conservative atmosphere, in a low-crime, family-friendly state. I do appreciate that the laws are there and will make it harder for my kids to get into trouble when they get older."
However, she also explained,
- "Do I have a problem with porn being sold here? No, not per se. I have no problem with porn at all. Trust me, they don't exploit women, and watching porn has never been scientifically shown to lead to an increase in crime rates, be it rape, pedophilia, or any other sexual crimes."
Nevertheless, she reiterated that the community's conservatism was the reason she moved there and that she had no plans to challenge it nor, by implication, the arrest of people distributing movies in which she may herself have starred.
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