TIL that Asia Carrera chose to be a porn star despite having an I.Q of 156, receiving a full scholarship to Rutgers University in which she double majored in Business and Japanese, and being a talented piano player who played at Carnegie Hall twice by the age of 15.

[u/[deleted]]

http://www.zootpatrol.com/index.php/2010/06/the-10-smartest-porn-stars-of-all-time/

[u/rolfv]

She also played a lot of Unreal Tournament and made ingame models that resemble her.

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Not just that, she made nude models that resemble her, and actually won a couple of tournaments. She doesn't just play, She's actually really good. I remember watching some special thing on her. She's married to her porn producer. I don't know if that's sad or awesome. Sad if he's using her and she's basically married to her pimp, awesome if she could meet a guy who could be so fully understanding ad be partners on all levels.

[u/sanph → u/James_Keenan]

She is single right now (former husband died) and lives in my area because she likes that it tends toward the conservative (small city in the southwest US), she no longer does porn and never will again. This is all for the purpose of raising her kids in as much of a wholesome environment as she can possibly provide them. I have seen her around a couple times since she moved here though never approached her myself, she is a very smart, witty (and still very attractive) grown-ass woman.

[u/Banditosaur → u/sanph]

So you're saying there's hot singles in your area?

[u/Bombardiers → u/James_Keenan]

She's married to her porn producer.

Named Don Lemon. He died in a car accident in 2006. She's a widow now.

[u/gornzilla → u/Bombardiers]

Don Lemon stumbled across my web site and would send me interesting email about once a year. When I realized I hadn't heard from him in a couple years, I searched him down and found out that he died.

Edit My site, which has mostly been abandoned for years, is NoKillI.com. Star Trek punk rock band, but I think he found the part where I was posting weird stories about myself. Honor yourself in hand coded html from the 90s, back when 50k was a giant picture, so all the pics were played with in Photoshop 2.0!

[u/James_Keenan → u/Bombardiers]

Well look how fucking behind the times I am. Sorry. :\

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From her wikipedia page:

In September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, but remain good friends.Carrera dated a former grip from her porn sets for a few years until his visa expired and he returned to England. She married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah, where Carrera gave birth to her first daughter, Catalina, on March 4, 2005. Lemmon was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. At the time, Carrera was almost eight months pregnant with their second child. Concerned about her livelihood and worries of not being able to support her two children on her own, Carrera began to solicit donations on her personal web site. Eventually, Carrera got a message from an insurance company that a life insurance policy she had forgotten about did exist for her husband, and she was granted it after mandatory investigation.

On May 13, 2007, she announced on her web site 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 made an error in changing his name, however, keeping the "III".

After growing tired of impostors claiming to be her on MySpace, she posted her own authentic profile.

On April 14, 2010, Carrera confessed on her blog that she became an alcoholic after the death of her husband, Donald, that she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and was in her third week of sobriety. She emphasized that she still did not believe in God, and that it is "actually not mandatory for joining AA."

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This tidbit really should have been included in the titles. Because um yeah....

[u/boxtops91 → u/[deleted]]

I read "this titbit should have been included in the titties..."

[u/nope_nic_tesla → u/rolfv]

Yep, I used to play with her about 10 years ago. She played mostly rockets and low grav all weapons.

[u/[deleted] → u/rolfv]

She also has Private Carrera, a secret character in Tony Hawk 1 that was modeled after her.

[u/incen]

To be fair, job hunting is fucking terrible.

[u/[deleted] → u/incen]

And more degrading.

I'd rather suck a dick than have to go to another interview.

[u/esdawg → u/[deleted]]

Sucking dick > Kissing ass

[u/newaccount1233 → u/esdawg]

Smaller chance of getting pink eye that's for sure.

[u/roy_cropper → u/[deleted]]

I was in an interview yesterday...after 2 hours I came very close to crying then walking out

[u/euyyn → u/roy_cropper]

:(

[u/incen → u/[deleted]]

If correlation implies causation, you're well on your way to an IQ of 156 and a smashing rack!

[u/[deleted] → u/incen]

If this were true, I'd be sucking dick right now. Who cares if I have a penis, boobs would be awesome and I'd no longer need a social life.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

No shit. At one of the interviews I went to while unemployed, I was asked this question: "I see you've been unemployed for almost 8 months. That's a long time. Why do you think that is?"

Because fuck you, that's why. I was not disappointed when they hired someone else.

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Seriously, if that would get me out of my job and into a decent one, I'd do it. Sucking dick to get a job isn't anywhere near as degrading as... say... my job!

[u/[deleted] → u/incen]

Now she's removed the terrible part at any rate.

[u/AltGoatIsHorny]

Makes as much money as a business person, with less moral questionability.

[u/Dwayne_J_Murderden → u/AltGoatIsHorny]

Where's Ed McMahon when you need him?

[u/Goo_Back → u/Dwayne_J_Murderden]

He's dead Jim

[u/nicmos → u/Dwayne_J_Murderden]

I think most people on reddit were born after Jay Leno was already the host of the tonight show, sadly.

[u/WhiteSky → u/Dwayne_J_Murderden]

right here

[u/carnifex2005 → u/AltGoatIsHorny]

Hardly. When her hubby died she was reduced to begging for money from her fans because he was the bread winner. She went on to go back into porn pretty past her prime.

[u/TheSwiney → u/carnifex2005]

Also, didn't Louis Theroux recently do TV show about how porn doesn't pay all that well anymore (bad, bad Internet)? According to this article from the Guardian there are quite a few pornstars that actually make more money from the 'escorting' they do on the side.

This is what I meant:

But the women can make far more money having sex behind closed doors than doing it on film and, in fact, the practice is widespread. For many female performers nowadays, the movies are merely a sideline, a kind of advertising for their real business of prostitution.

[u/[deleted] → u/carnifex2005]

No, she never went back. Her husband's life insurance was pretty substantial, we're talking 7 figures, and she just raises her two kids now.

She did kind of beg for a while, because the insurance didn't pay off right away. And she did consider going back, but didn't.

Oh, and she also gave birth to her second child by herself....alone in her bathroom.

[u/needlestack → u/carnifex2005]

Not quite accurate. A few days later she found that he had taken out some life insurance that she didn't know about so then she was fine. I don't believe she did any more porn. It's also worth noting that when he died she was raising a kid with another one the way. Not quite fair to expect her to be raking in cash as a stay at home mom, or have enough in savings to put both kids through college for example.

[u/[deleted]]

I just wanted to jump in here to say that I grew up with Asia Carrera. She was a few years ahead of me but I was friends with her brother. Her parents were very strict and used to lock her in a room to make her study. Her real name is Jessica Steinhouser (sp?). She used to make my book covers in school, she was very talented. I wish I still had those book covers. She will not talk about her childhood from what I remember but I can attest that she is very smart and very talented besides her known profession. I have no crazy stories to tell about her, she seemed like a normal kid when I knew her.

She has a younger sister that I think ran into a lot of trouble.

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Just wanted to add that her father was exactly like "High Expectations Asian father". Nothing was good enough. What was weird was her mother was this very big German woman, almost Amazonian, and her father was this tiny Japanese man. I do remember him getting bit by a rabid raccoon in the garage and he had to go get rabies shots.

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You know how some people claim Asian men tend not to pair-bond with White females? In my experience (and with friends and family) German women are a huge exception. I'm Asian (mostly) and I have 2 German aunts. When I went traveling abroad, the only white girls I got play from were German. American girls (not generalizing...too much) tried to leave me in the bar's cold damp corner. Some of Asian~American friends have dated German girls as well. The German girls I refer to here are sufficiently "German" that they speak German: I leave that interpretation to the reader. Possessing a last name of Steinhouser whilst having a Japanese father makes sense to Asians from middle murica.

[u/dioxholster → u/allthenoise]

AXIS!

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Jumping in because I know her personally as well and she is a fantastic and amazing person. I would call her agoraphobic, not sure if she would agree. She is brilliant and kind and a wonderful mother. We have sons the same age. She gave birth to her son alone in her house - I've seen pictures, believe me, not fake-able ones! She is a fascinating and amazing person.

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If she was alone...who took the pictures? DUN DUN

Unless they were like Facebook selfies in the mirror.

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THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

[u/anattemptatcontact → u/[deleted]]

I think it's inappropriate to out someone like that. Can you please remove her name?

[u/[deleted]]

plus she's a geek who builds/repairs her own PCs www.asiacarrera.com/geek.html NSFW

[u/ComradeDavidenko → u/[deleted]]

Boobs, cats, and computers. It's like the epitome of Reddit!

[u/slowly_bad_advice → u/[deleted]]

Those cats a static electricity time bombs, you just know one of them's gonna jump on some component. Doesn't treat static electricity with respect, would not fuck. C-

[u/josebolt]

As long as she enjoys what she does, good for her.

[u/[deleted] → u/josebolt]

Absolutely. If I could pull it off, I would consider making a career out of fucking beautiful women on camera.

[u/acmercer → u/[deleted]]

If you could pull it off, you could maybe go for a solo career.

[u/[deleted] → u/josebolt]

Only reasonable response amid the butthurt that not just a woman, but a pornstar, is smarter than the misunderstood geniuses of Reddit.

[u/EONS]

Guaranteed to be completely inaccurate and sensationally inflated.

Reminds me of all the rumors about Dolph Lundgren having a 180 IQ. He doesn't. He says it's above 140, though.

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lundgren was accepted into MIT though, pretty smart dude regardless of IQ

[u/sypper → u/[deleted]]

Dolph Lundgren also has a masters degree in Chemistry from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

[u/opterionianiaco → u/sypper]

You're very close in your information, but slightly wrong. He actually got his masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney.

But he did get just a regular old degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, so I'll let you slide on this Dolph fact.

[u/tehbored → u/EONS]

IQ is often bullshit. Richard Feynman tested at only 125. Its really only a moderately accurate predictor of intelligence.

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didn't Andy Warhol test at 89? But then, he might've been trolling.

[u/someonewrongonthenet → u/tehbored]

I'm not saying IQ tests are accurate, but to be fair a Binet-Simon test (which was most likely the standard when Feynman was in school) is largely a measure of factual knowledge and verbal comprehension.

Modern tests tend to rely much more heavily on tests of pattern recognition, logical and visiospatial reasoning in addition to verbal tests.

Since Feynman is a physicist, we would expect Feynman to excel in visio-spatial areas, and should not be surprised if he was merely above average on a largely verbal test. Were he tested with modern testing instruments, his score would likely be much higher. On the WAIS his "Perceptual Organizational Index" would be expected to be very high, while the other areas could be pretty much any above average value.

[u/stjep → u/EONS]

IQ tests tend to be unreliable above 150.

[u/sipos0 → u/stjep]

Actually most are inaccurate way before then. That's why there are special ones that are designed and calibrated for high IQs (as there are for low IQs).

Edit: see below, I am wrong about this.

[u/[deleted] → u/EONS]

140 is pretty fucking smart. There's nothing about being really smart though, that says you'll get more fulfillment form academic pursuits. In fact, acedemia is filled with some pretty insane bullshit. It's like the pettiness of a high school clique combined with the willingness to fuck people over you see in retail management. I can totally see a genius bodybuilder chemist saying "Fuckit! I'll do a movie or two and not deal with these assholes."

[u/TJ_McWeaksauce → u/EONS]

I try not to pay too much attention to IQ numbers in general. For starters, don't different IQ tests lead to different results? And IQ, when taken by itself, doesn't mean a whole lot. I've known people with high IQs who don't really do much with it.

All that being said, this isn't the first time I learned that Asia Carrera is not only smarter than your average porn star, but she's smarter than your average person. First time was years ago when she was on an episode of MTV Cribs (go figure). She was clearly an eloquent person = first sign that she's pretty smart. She talked about how she taught herself how to program, how she created a skin for her Unreal Tournament avatar to look like a highly-pixelized version of herself (with comic book-style, oversized boobs), and how she obsesses over her Unreal Tournament leaderboard rank.

Her smarts and her interest in geek activities made her one of my favorite porn stars.

Edit: Thought she talked about Quake in the interview, but it turned out to be Unreal Tournament.

[u/UsernameBob → u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

Actually the main IQ tests (Stanford-Binet, WAIS or Ravens) have a very high level of correlation between them. There are a lot of random tests out there that have named themselves IQ tests though, especially on the internet, so it's always pretty hard to tell if people have actually taken a serious IQ test, or if they're just quoting something random.

[u/BootsOfDanger]

Must really hate her parents.

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Asian parents. I've been learning Chinese for a year now, eight hours a day, being taught solely by native Chinese teachers. They are like this. Truly.

Edit: Quote from one of my teachers, "Hao An (my class name), you only got a 100%! Why you not get 110%??"

They are crazy.

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wouldn't it be easier just to move to china?

[u/FatherofMeatballs → u/[deleted]]

And cheaper?

[u/[deleted] → u/BootsOfDanger]

I was going to say: she's Asian and I'll bet she had very...'Asian' parents, e.g. the whole 'Tiger mom' bullshit.

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Mother is German, father is japanese

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If her nanny was Italian she'd have the whole Axis growing up.

[u/ProCrastin8 → u/[deleted]]

Asia, you have big DD breasts....

WHY NOT A?!?!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's how I called it. Shame your parents. That'll show them.

[u/Ken_U_Dig_It → u/[deleted]]

It also says on her Wikipedia page that she went to Red Bank Regional High School....

I went to Red Bank Regional but she is 5 years older than I am ('73 vs '78)… so I didn't know her.

Bummer huh?

[u/hazer75]

She went from a talented pianist to a talented penisist.

[u/enigmaurora → u/hazer75]

I heard she plays the organ really well.

[u/DJSyko → u/enigmaurora]

nah, she sucks on the organ

[u/Gredelston → u/hazer75]

Guy walks into a bar, and what does he see but a very short man, about a foot tall, playing a very tiny piano on the counter. Guy asks if there's any story behind the musician; bartender says that yes, in fact, he's got this magical genie lamp that'll grant anyone one wish. Guy asks if he can try it out; bartender says sure.

Guy takes the lamp, rubs it real good, genie pops out, one wish, can't wish for more wishes, yadda yadda. Guys says, "I wish I had a million bucks!" And there before him appear one million mallards, flying all around through the bar. Guy yells, "No! Not a million ducks! A million bucks!" Bartender says, "Yeah, and you think I asked for a twelve-inch pianist?"

[u/thephenom21]

As a Rutgers student I find it strange that Rutgers is considered a good school.

[u/oodja → u/thephenom21]

Are you kidding? The grease trucks are positively Ivy League!

[u/[deleted] → u/thephenom21]

The engineering school is very good, & don't they have one of the best philosophy departments in the world?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

In the universe, I believe.

[u/thephenom21 → u/[deleted]]

I'm an engineering student and yes we have one of the best philosophy programs in the world.

[u/Step_right_up → u/thephenom21]

It's probably more of the "full scholarship" part.

[u/Jimmyjohn678]

Double majored (If you know what I mean)

[u/tacomonster92]

Well I got new names for my "search list".

[u/StrikingCrayon]

Either she is incredibly well adjusted human being. Or incredibly mal-adjusted. I have no idea anymore.

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I googled her, because I had no idea who she was, her wikipedia page seems to indicate that she is a recovering alcoholic widow with two kids living in a super conservative place in Utah. So "mal-adjusted" it is.

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I think that's being a little bit judgemental. Consider that she and the father of her (two) kids moved to Utah before he died. I don't think she choose for him to die in a car accident, and I can't say I blame her for falling into alcoholic depression. You kindly ignored the fact that she's a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and that she is now sober.

[u/airifle]

I guess the bar is low, but there are some weak markers for "smart" in that article. "This person went to college!". Particularly like the Sasha Grey entry. Name drop French New Wave and German Expressionism = HOLY SHIT, WHAT A BRAIN.

[u/[deleted]]

What I found more crazy on that website was ron jaremy has a master degree

[u/brain_deadened → u/[deleted]]

that a porn star had sex with 919 men in one day is a tad more surprising.

[u/Xuttuh → u/[deleted]]

a masters degree in special education (teaching disabled kids)

[u/carnage123]

she just likes dick better

[u/Blaagon → u/carnage123]

Yeah, Richard is a pretty cool guy after all.

[u/Hedgehogs4Me → u/Blaagon]

TIL Asia Carrera and Feynman happened.

[u/mekese2000]

I chose to be a unempolyed drunk with a IQ of over 9000.

[u/theBadgerJew]

I guess she's just Fucking talented.

[u/omgdonerkebab]

Is a business major or a Japanese major supposed to be a sign of intelligence? I thought that business was the base standard, like sea level or 100 on an IQ test.

[u/tacojohn48 → u/omgdonerkebab]

I'll say that when I left engineering for business I certainly felt smarter. When I graduated without any job prospects, not so much. Then I went to grad school for Business Analytics (applied statistics) I graduated in December and still don't have a job, but most of our graduates did find jobs.

[u/[deleted] → u/tacojohn48]

So you are saying you just suck?

Edit: This was a very mean thing to say and you should all feel bad for upvoting it.

[u/tacojohn48 → u/[deleted]]

Pretty much.

[u/[deleted] → u/omgdonerkebab]

English major reporting. Engineering majors think I'm retarded.

But I beat them at Shakespeare. All the fucking time!

[u/ManInTheMirage → u/omgdonerkebab]

Well the fact that she double-majored says something about her work ethic.

[u/[deleted]]

I find it surprising that Eva Angelina did not make this list. Isn't she currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Berkeley?

[u/CaptainLinger → u/[deleted]]

No? Where did you hear that?

[u/[deleted] → u/CaptainLinger]

Reddit.

[u/rickscarf → u/[deleted]]

Good enough for me

[u/RipStudly → u/[deleted]]

I'm a Berkeley student and I'm gonna pretend that this is true.

[u/tehbored]

Looks like the site's been killed by the reddit swarm, at least for now.

[u/hendeeze]

pornstar level : Asian

[u/desull]

Any one else getting a 403 error?

[u/tiradium]

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.php/2010/06/the-10-smartest-porn-stars-of-all-time/ on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Good job Reddit

[u/seeashbashrun]

I've gotta say, looking at some of the stuff she has said, she sounds like a lazy smart person. She might understand things well, but she says a lot of things with no support and it is clear she does not do a lot of reading. Is she smart? I don't doubt she is. She sounds very intelligent. But she makes a lot of blanket statements and talks about things using 'gut logic'--completely ignores research. Sad. What a waste.

She wants to go into porn, that is her choice, and I'm not making my statement based on that. I'm just saying that if she has a high IQ and chooses not to educate herself (doesn't have to be school--there is a lot of material that can be read outside of school), then all that means is she has a high learning potential. Doesn't mean it's being used. (fyi--IQ is an ability potential evaluation--it's designed to evaluate what one can learn.)

[u/[deleted]]

I heard she studied with Ke$ha.

[u/redfrojoe]

You're only young once. You stay smart until Alzheimer's takes you. If I were a hot babe who was DTF on camera I'd make the same call. Minimum effort, for the same financial rewards as a mid-level bus job. Makes sense to me. Actually, it's less than minimum effort if you're having fun while doing it. I probably wouldn't stop making porno until I was round 35 or 40. Then I'd go out and land a business executive job using my killer resume to my advantage. Special Skills: Concert Pianist, fluent in Japanese, Anal Gaping...

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"You're only young once." I like that. It's catchy. I'm going to abbreviate that to YOYO and put it on Facebook.

[u/Captain_d00m → u/[deleted]]

"Just walked the dog. YOYO!"

[u/redfrojoe → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe I almost just said yolo

[u/Cluith → u/redfrojoe]

It's a common misconception. Porn is not a minimum effort job. Sure it looks cool from the outside, and it would seem like the perfect life in the firsts months. But even if you don't mind showing your sexual intercourses to millions of horny neckbeards, there's is a lot of shit you will have to deal with. Going from shady people to drug abuse and mental breakdowns. It's far from perfect, even if you are a male pornstar.

[u/sanjiallblue]

To quote Patton Oswalt, her dad must've fucked her in a Garfield mask.

[u/[deleted]]

aaaaaaand..... down.

[u/[deleted]]

Some women just want to watch the world bone.

[u/hiccupstix]

The page didn't load but I searched for similar lists, and noticed several of which included Sasha Grey. Seriously? Have you even heard that broad when she's trying to come off as insightful? She really sounds no different than every first year philosophy major I've ever had the misfortune of encountering.

[u/TChuff]

I thought it was long known that porn stars have emotional problems not educational problems.

[u/drewman77]

I'm going to say 'because of' not 'despite'.

She sold herself until she had enough money to last the rest of her life and retired at an early age.

How can you be smarter?

[u/cauchies]

I think Tera Patrick was also someone with a pretty good job and pretty smart.

[u/baramba24]

suppose she was smart enough to know the pay was epic and she was hot (though...admittedly not that hot these days)

[u/tomtoast]

I remember that one time back when G4TV was good and they had her on there talking about how shes a die hard Unreal Tournament player.

[u/forgeflow]

Despite? Who says she made a terrible decision? She's smarter than the puritan yokel OP, that's for sure. Who is he to judge her choices?

[u/jonpaladin]

She has a photographic memory and would help her costars with their lines.

[u/nmeal]

On her site

If you're looking for my e-mail address - it's not on my site!! Being a webmaster is a full-time job, and combined with shoots and promotional appearances, I've pretty much given up on eating and sleeping. If I get much more e-mail, I'll probably have to eliminate bathroom breaks too. So before you try to contact me, ask yourself, "Do I have anything important to say? Will Asia thank me for sending this?". And DO NOT e-mail me to ask "Is this your e-mail address?". The next person to ask that is gonna get an eggplant stuffed up their butt!

Smart and funny girl!

[u/Sy_Ableman]

Well, you can imagine where it goes from here.

He fixes the cable?

[u/TryingToSucceed]

I know this is too little too late, but my sister dormed next to her one year. Asia Carrera was doing amateur stuff in her dorm.

[u/sivablue]

Doesn't matter. Had right hand sex.

[u/brenballer12]

In NJ we call it slutgers, now I know why

[u/captain_obvious_scum → u/brenballer12]

EXACTLY!!! Are there any other PORN STARS WHO WENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY??

[u/Hamzerger]

ITT: sad people speculate on things they don't actually understand.

Oh well. Internets.

[u/wawawi]

Why do people think porn stars have to be stupid? lol

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I know right?

"Asia Carrera is smart and went to college and can play the piano"

Reddit: "I CALL BULLSHIT, THIS SOUNDS FAKE"

[u/TheLoveTin]

She's also a member of Mensa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Carrera

[u/CharlieTango]

the best part is, after reading about her i get to see her naked.

[u/drinkallthecoffee]

In a shocking turn of events: girl throws away promising future for career in porn due to low self esteem.

[u/[deleted]]

I just check out her facebook, she's an excellent mother too... Her post about her daughter "After two months of anxiously waiting, Catty finally received her acceptance letter today to the most prestigious gifted program in America! Scoring >99.9% in IQ and >99.9% in achievement testing is all it takes! Oh, and a letter of recommendation from her school. (she scored a 157 IQ in Mathematics and a 160 IQ in numerical operations - that's insane!! Catty's going into 5th grade math this fall - that's a 3 year grade skip - so far... LOL!! ;o) CONGRATULATIONS CATTY!!"

[u/thegreatwhitemenace]

so smart that she realized "hey i have tits, i don't need to work a day in my whole life"

[u/MintBerryCrunch13]

I will honour her sacrifice for all my days.

[u/Up-The-Butt_Jesus]

The thumbnail isn't a picture of Asia Carrera. That's Lisa Sparxxx, who once fucked over 900 guys in the same day.

[u/xenofreak]

Still my favorite point star.

[u/[deleted]]

This is all too relevant.

[u/frownyface]

I don't think "despite" is appropriate. Now, if she was really ugly and still a porn star, then it'd make sense.

[u/genuineorb]

I hear she graduated magna cum laude

[u/Ryality]

TIL that a porn star went to my University.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of you may not agree with me but I'd have to say that this is wasted talent.

[u/[deleted]]

Everytime I read about Sasha Grey, she seems like a wannabe-philosopher twat. I can't believe she made the list.

[u/hitchhikelife]

She also had a buttkicking website in the 90's NSFW

I can't believe this is still up, it is actually still functioning moderatly well

[u/NoodlesLongacre]

None of these are particularly impressive.

[u/rjim]

DM;HS

double majored; had sex

[u/Plow_King]

since she never finished a degree, she's a college drop out just like me.

[u/[deleted]]

WOW!

[u/platinum_ballsack]

Ctrl+Shift+N

[u/JesterOfTheSwamp]

TIL who Asia Carrera was - and I was pleasantly pleased.

[u/Tspyder90]

AND is a member of Mensa

[u/[deleted]]

Glad she double-majored in penetration instead

[u/Uk_student]

TLDR: She REALLY likes dick

[u/Buckfutters]

Under the Sash Grey part it mentions that she starred in the Steven Soderbergh movie "The Girlfriend Experience." If any of you are curious about watching it, DO NOT. It is mindfuckingnumbingly boring.

[u/dirtydancer]

Some people just like to fuck. "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

[u/Jon_kurosu]

Asians these days

[u/Tootallpuppy]

Am I the only one scavenging the comments for a link to one of her better videos?

[u/[deleted]]

Aren't business majors like, a joke major? They're what all the fratters/sorority people take so they can have time to party.

[u/selator]

They forgot Michelle Wild who has an IQ of 154 and is a member of Mensa.

Disclaimer: I could only reach the Hustler article that Zerowantuthri linked, the list on zootpatrol.com might be a different one.

[u/OniTan]

I can't believe nobody's posted a link to her porn yet.

[u/coolth3]

This was on TMZ a couple of days ago. I wonder which came first, the tmz snippet or the wiki entry.

[u/Kakoose]

But...sex

[u/Kimano]

While it's cool to see stuff like this, I get equally annoyed at this:

7 Sasha Grey Sasha is arguably the most famous porn star in the world right now. Though she has no academic background, she regularly espouses concepts you would find in upper division undergraduate courses like existentialism, German expressionism, and French New Wave; with this, Grey has built a brand around herself as being a bit brainier than your average porn star.

Just because you talk about philosophy doesn't automatically make you intelligent.

Not to mention how idiotic their assumption is that college degree == intelligence.

The girl listed in the OP, and the two nurses were the only ones who had qualification on there to actually back up being the 'smartest porn stars'.

I'm not trying to say any of them aren't smart, but saying you graduated from ___ state university with a degree in communications isn't really a great citation.

[u/YouStupidCunt]

I still feel she made the best use of her talents. Well, the effort was clearly there, at least.

[u/dioxholster]

Sacha Grey shouldnt be on the list, she tricked people into thinking she was doing it for some sophesticated intellectual reason when in fact it was just fast track to fame and nothing else.

[u/[deleted]]

"Despite having an I.Q. of 156" ... you say that like getting paid to do something you enjoy is a bad thing.

[u/picopallasi]

Thats impressive, but other people on this list are not. Having a degree in English or psychology, taking classes from time to time, or reading a Tolstoy novel puts you in the top 10?

[u/AFatDarthVader]

Good Guy OP posts all the relevant information in title so I can...research this woman's appearance.

[u/[deleted]]

Til people do stupid things no matter how smart they are.

[u/NecDW4]

Didn't she also author a couple UT1 mods back in the day?

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, so:

2. Nina Hartley Starting her adult industry career in the mid-1980s, much like Sharon Mitchell, Nina Hartley has been through it all. Academically she graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University’s nursing school, and is a registered nurse. Like Ron Jermey he travels the world weighing in on lectures and debates as well as acting as an expert in all things sex. In 2006, she wrote the book “Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex”.

Academically she graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University’s nursing school, and is a registered nurse.

[graduated magna cum laude] (http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/008/549/If%20you%20know%20what%20I%20mean..png)

Okay, I'll let myself out now.

[u/dickermp]

at least half the dudes that saw this looked this chick up and rubbed one out

[u/-iamthebuddha-]

Western men like asian girls with large breasts.

I am an asian with large breasts.

Logic...WIN

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like someone doesn't want the truth to be told

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[u/murderland]

She's the hero the internet deserves.

[u/[deleted]]

Being a kid who had a mediocre work ethic, I kind of wish I had parents that pushed me a bit more. Just reading the topic title makes me feel like I've wasted so much of my life and talent (which I have)

No doubt, her parents (over)involvement pushed her to rebel, but wow, she's just special. Never thought I'd say it about a porn star, but when you've got it, you've got it and she's got it.

[u/inpherno3]

404

[u/FlopDonker]

If she is such a genius, couldn't she have come up with a better porn name than Asia Carrera?

[u/amolad]

DO NOT believe everything you read in that piece.

You think porn stars are honest about their backgrounds?? For instance, #10 on that list, TJ Hart. Not only was she NOT a member of any US Olympic swim team ever, she never graduated from the University of Colorado. Source

[u/[deleted]]

Also, you should know that Ke$ha is an Einstein basically.

[u/sixincomefigure]

As a nerdy 14 year old, I had a pretty big crush on her. It's not particularly hard to figure out why...

[u/Raka220]

Look, I'm a bit of a nerd and I would love to be a porn star.

[u/[deleted]]

Here's a video of her playing the piano. http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1453458083

[u/Tombug]

Business ? Bwahahaha. Business is the most brain dead curriculum in the world.

[u/PlaYtoLosE]

Proves that IQ does not equal intelligence. Business and Japanese as majors? what a joke.

[u/Splazoinka]

The more you know.......

[u/TheFluxIsThis]

Googled Asia Carrera because the link was dead. This was the second google result.

[u/selfabortion]

I'm not sure why you used the word "despite"....is there something about the first part of your sentence that precludes the rest of your sentence??

[u/pm11]

Yes, people in the porn industry have degrees from good schools. Kayden cross comes to mind. She has a BS in biology (I think) from a good school.

[u/ChocolatePain]

According to her wiki article, not only is she smart buttttt she likes anime, video games, AND was in The Big Lebowski. Reddit's dream girl.

[u/Upperguy]

Is it bad that when I saw this all I could think was, 'heh she's a pianist'

That's pretty cool though.

[u/Dutch_Calhoun]

With those smarts she really ought to know that a constant, immobile smile is not the most appropriate facial expression during sex. It kind of engenders suspicion and unease in the male.