Oh, Asa Akira. Even those without Asian fetishes find you irresistibly hot! Yup, it’s because of your playful, naughty smile. One that has driven men to madness for centuries…
Ah, that dangerously sexy look. One would give a lot just to bed this babe. Oh yeah, a lot. Maybe even selling his/her soul… Just to feel the warmth of her pussy walls. Or the tightness of the hole behind it. Heck, even just to cup those jugs.
Who is Asa Akira?
Asa is a Japanese-American adult actress and adult film director. She has appeared in over half a thousand adult films and is a multi-awarded performer. In 2013, she co-hosted the 30th Annual AVN Awards alongside pornographic actress Jesse Jane and comedian April Macie. She won the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award that night. She was also the most awarded person during that ceremony… 9 awards to be exact. A good 4 awards more than what she had the previous year.
In 2017 she bagged the XBIZ Award: Best Supporting Actress and the AVN Award: Best Solo/Tease Performance (for Asa Goes to Hell). Just this year, she won the AVN award for Mainstream Star of the Year.
Before the Banging
Asa Akira was born Asa Takigami on January 3, 1985, in New York City. She is the only child of Japanese immigrant parents. Asa lived in SoHo and moved to Tokyo at age nine when her father, a portrait photographer, was relocated there for work. She returned to the United States at age 13 and moved to Downtown Brooklyn and later Clinton Hill. Asa attended the Washington Irving High School, a public school in Gramercy Park, for her sophomore and junior years. She then transferred to the City-as-School High School, a learning-through-internship senior high school in Manhattan, and graduated after her senior year.
In a 2014 interview, she described her childhood as being “perfectly normal.” Her family spoke Japanese at home and were “health nuts” who avoided junk food. As a teenager, Akira worked at the children’s bookstore Books of Wonder as a cashier.
Career Journey
Asa began performing in X-rated movies at age twenty in 2006. She first worked as a stripper at the Hustler Club in New York. In 2006–2007 she was a regular on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show and was famous as the “Show Whore.” There, she met pornographic actress Gina Lynn on the show and she offered her porn work. Her first boy-girl scene was with Travis Knight for Gina Lynn Productions, after having already done several girl-girl scenes, mainly with Lynn. She then signed a contract with Vouyer Media before becoming a freelancer six months later.
“I’m part of the new era of porn. We’re feminists, very sex-positive people. We’re not victims of rape, not drug addicts, we don’t have any daddy issues.”
In 2013, Akira announced that she signed an exclusive performing contract with Wicked Pictures. Her debut film as a contract performer for the company was ‘Asa Is Wicked’.
Hot Curiosities
Asa is her real first name, which means “morning” in Japanese, and the last name in her stage name was from the anime film Akira.
In 2011, Complex ranked Akira fourth on their list of “The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars Right Now” and at sixth on their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.” LA Weekly ranked her third on their list of “10 Innovative Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Sasha Grey” in 2013. She was also placed on CNBC’s yearly list “The Dirty Dozen,” the site’s annual ranking of the adult industry’s most popular and successful stars in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
She made a cameo appearance in the mainstream film Starlet (2012).
In January 2014, Asa, along with Dana DeArmond and Chanel Preston was featured in a Cosmopolitan magazine article titled “4 Porn Stars on How They Stay Fit.” The article was inspired by actress Gabrielle Union’s comment made on Conan O’Brien’s talk show about striving to follow the fitness routines of the porn stars she saw at her gym. In February 2014, Akira was a guest on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s radio show Loveline and in November of that year, she was a guest on The Eric Andre Show.
In April 2015, ‘The Hundreds’ started releasing episodes for a series titled Hobbies with Asa Akira, which features Akira trying out different activities such as tattooing, boxing, taxidermy, and ice sculpting.
Asa likes tattoos and she has several… Birds on the back of her neck, 5 flowers on her left shoulder, Cherry blossoms on her left shoulder blade, Rose on her right shoulder blade, Star inside the left forearm; “Mis / Concepcion” on the right ankle, and the name “Antoni” on her lower left forearm.
Her Legacy
Asa is the inspiration behind the world’s most expensive sex doll. Yup, Abyss Creations have released a hyper-realistic Asa Akira sex doll, complete with removable deep-throat mouth inserts and a “completely realistic and natural torso” for a whopping $5,749. And that is still without the add-ons like elf-ears, customizable vaginal inserts, and duracast.
Outside Entertainment
Asa Akira is also a published writer. She wrote a memoir titled Insatiable: Porn—A Love Story which was released in May 2014 by Grove Press. In July 2015, she got a contract with Cleis Press to publish her second book, titled Dirty Thirty: A Memoir, a collection of essays, which was released in the fall of 2016.
In 2014, Akira wrote an article for Playboy called “Just Because I Do Porn Doesn’t Mean I’m Not a Feminist” in which she calls out the pitfalls of certain brands of feminism that exclude sex workers and women who work in the adult entertainment industry from the realm of what can be considered feminist. She goes on to explain that in a world where women make less than men on the dollar, porn stands out as an industry where women are consistently making more.
Married Life
She was once engaged to pornographic actor Rocco Reed. In December 2012, she married pornographic actor and director Toni Ribas. She states that aside from their on-screen work, their relationship is monogamous.
Sex Talk
Asa’s turn-ons are both men and “girls that look like boys.” She doesn’t like being called bisexual, claiming to lean towards heterosexuality but to still be uncertain.
Asa Akira Photos
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