MBELDOG BLOG

Asia Carrera was a prominant pornstar in the 90s and early 2000s who defied people’s expectations of adult entertainers by being blisteringly smart. How smart? IQ of 156, member of MENSA, performed at Carnegie Hall on the piano twice by the time she was 15, taught English in Japan at the age of 16, won a full scholarship to Rutgers University. Yeah, she’s smart. She decided to push back against the academic aspirations of her family, and instead went into skinflicks, but at the same time she was a major nerd — back before it was cool. She coded her website from scratch — which looks horribly dated now, but was cutting edge in the 90s. She also used to be a fixture in the Unreal Tournament community, which is pretty sweet.