Okay, so maybe it's the other way around, but Jeremy Long is not only the star of AsianSchlong.com and doing his best to increase the visibility of Asian guys in porn, but he's also in his second year of law school with dreams of becoming a public defender. He's a lot like Atticus Finch, only Asian and with his own porn site. Other than that, they're basically the same guy.
See? Same guy.
According to an interview Long did with Amped Asia, he hopes that being open about his site while enrolled in law school will help to remove the stigma from porn.
I’m a very open person so I’ve never made an attempt to hide it (which nowadays would be futile anyways given that so many people watch porn). But Boalt Hall (what UC Berkeley’s Law School is called) is a uniquely awesome place with amazing people. It’s what really sets us apart from other schools. All of my friends there have been extremely supportive. There is a large Asian student body, and a general culture of openness and progression, so most people at my school think what I’m doing is great.
As for why he got into porn in the first place, he's fairly pragmatic
As far as my motivation though, I would say it really began in an Asian American studies class at UC Berkeley where we learned about the work of professor Darrell Hamamoto who had produced porn sort of as a research project. In those types of classes we would learn all kinds of theories about the emasculation of Asian males in the media and things like that. But this guy–instead of just writing some paper about it, he was actually doing something in the real world. As an academic, he had a lot to risk and lose, and I thought it was ballsy as hell, and I very much admired it and appreciated it as fellow Asian male. And when I was confronted with this opportunity, I just saw this as a chance to represent. And also, I mean I’ve always been a pretty ballsy guy myself and doing porn is definitely the ultimate YOLO.
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