Interview: Blackie Chan, Asian Male Porn Star – Part 2

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In Part 1 of my interview with Blackie Chan, he discussed the obstacles Asian men face in the adult entertainment industry and his hopes for their mainstream acceptance as sex symbols in our society. In today’s post we continue the conversation and get into the nitty gritty of being a porn star, how it impacts his perceptions of women and sex, and the pride he takes in his work.

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SB: How did you feel when you shot your first porn scene?

BC: I remember not being able to sleep even one minute the night before. I couldn’t stop thinking about what I was about to do. The entire day I fought to stay awake by consuming coffee, chocolate, and energy drinks. Part of me wanted some more time to think it over. The other half of me wanted to just get it over with. I had my doctor prescribe me some Viagra, just in case I wasn’t “up” for the challenge, but I decided not to take the little blue pill. I wanted to do it naturally.

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SB: So you were really nervous?

BC: I was as nervous as hell. I was afraid that my first co-star might criticize me for a poor performance. Or worse, she might tell other girls that I was a bad fuck – which would be a really bad thing.

Fortunately, it was not like that. My co-star, India Summers was very calm, understanding, and mature about it. She’s an experienced veteran porn actress. She knew it was my first time, and was willing to guide me through the whole process. If I did something right or wrong, she’d let me know. She wasn’t afraid to take the lead in certain positions that I was having trouble with. And she told me I could stop for a moment if I ever felt uncomfortable.

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SB: What did you think when you watched the playback of your first scene?

BC: That I did well for a beginner. But I was disappointed in myself for not making it look enjoyable. I looked very tense and nervous throughout the scene. The expression on my face was more like a fierce stare, than a look of pleasure. Whenever I spoke, you could barely hear my voice. I had to turn the volume way up to hear what I was saying. India Summers’ voice was loud and clear, but mine was too faint to understand.

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SB: Has being an adult film star changed the way you view/think about sex?

BC: One thing you learn quickly when doing porn, is to develop your oral sex skills. This is very important with any woman to make her hot, so that she will be in the right mood for the hard pounding of intercourse.

Porn sex is not the same as real life intimacy sex. When I am having porn sex, I need to tilt my body at an angle so the camera can see the act of penetration. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable and it’s hard to keep an erection in that position. But I’m getting better at it with every scene I do.

Porn acting has given me a lot more confidence, knowing that I can perform solidly under these circumstances. I can rewind the tape to see what I look like, act and sound on camera. I know what I need to change about myself, and that I need to be more bold and assertive in front of a woman.

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SB: Has working in the porn industry changed your view of women? If yes, how so?

BC: It’s taught me that sex is just sex and women are just women. I can have great sex with just about any woman I am with no matter what her race, age, shape, etc. It does not matter if she’s a 20 year old super model, or a 40 year old soccer mom. It always feels great when I embrace her feminine with my masculine.

The media teaches men to worship female beauty, to set the bar higher than is realistically possible. As if superficial beauty equates to having incredible sex in bed, but it doesn’t.  Outer beauty is just a commodity that men chase after like a sports car or a 50 foot yacht. But now I try to find the real beauty in women.

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SB: What is the most exciting  thing about being a porn star and what would you say is the most challenging thing?

BC: I think this is more of a guy thing, but I enjoy having sex without the usual strings attached. There’s a part of me that gets a thrill from banging a woman I just met. Especially if she’s the type that I don’t usually get to meet, like a punk rocker, surfer girl, hippie artist, or from an exotic country. It’s definitely a memorable experience.

The most challenging part of being a porn star is being consistent in bed, time after time. Most people have sex depending on their mood, if you are stressed out from work, tired from a weekend hike, or you aren’t attracted to your co-star you won’t perform at your best. But perform you must, because the show must go on. The producers don’t cut you any slack. None at all. They want the scene to run like clockwork. They rent the location by the hour. If you’re a man, you are expected cum on command right down to the minute.

This was hard for me initially. My personal life and issues sometimes get the best of me. Sometimes I came too quickly. Sometimes I couldn’t shoot at all without masturbating myself.

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SB: What is the best scene you’ve ever shot?

BC: That would be my first scene with India Summer. I had a chance to do some fun role playing: I played a major league baseball player, and she played a female sports reporter. I’ve always fantasized about being a pro athlete and attracting beautiful women. Unfortunately I was more academic rather than athletic growing up. That’s something that role playing does, it helps you feel better about who you are in reality.

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SB: What is the one thing you can tell our readers about working in the porn industry that they wouldn’t know – something that shocked you when you first learned of it?

BC: It was hard for me to believe that the women in porn LOVE having sex, with men or women. They are all just super horny individuals. Yes, some of them do it for the money, but those women don’t last very long in the industry. I’ve met quite a few porn starlets who live on the East coast and fly to L.A. every weekend to perform. I’m like “How can you handle all that commuting? You need to board a plane every week to get to work?” I mean, these women were literally living out of one big suitcase. But they really love the porn lifestyle, so they do it gladly.

And I found out that the men, for some odd reason tend to LOSE their passion for sex. And I’m like, “How can you not love your job? You get to fuck the daylights out of all these super hot women.” Then they all tell me the same thing. The pleasure of having sex with many beautiful women eventually wears off, and then the job becomes nothing more than a pay check. Some of them can’t have normal relationships with their partner anymore. Many of them are dating or married to porn actresses because they can’t relate to anyone else. Most of them want to quit.

Fortunately, I haven’t gotten to that point yet. And I don’t know if I ever will. I enjoy making porn too much, and watching myself on screen.

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SB: By the end of your career, what do you hope your impact or legacy will be with respect to the view of Asian men in the porn industry?

BC: Before I was a male performer, I was, and still am a porn viewer. I remember when I was 12, looking at the magazines of nude women under my father’s mattress. That’s when I first discovered my sexual fantasies and masturbation. But for some reason, whenever the woman was shown having sex with a man, it was always a white man. Same thing with the porn videos, the women only had sex with white men, even if she was Asian. I think not seeing any Asian men in porn when I was younger took away my self esteem and made me feel inadequate as a kid. Back then, I was too young to understand the racial bias that exists in the entertainment industry. But even as a boy I knew that I would trade a hundred porn films featuring white men for one video with an Asian man in it. Now I can finally become that Asian man. I will never work for someone if it involves degrading or insulting my own people. As odd as it sounds, at the end of the day I work for pride.

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SB: Any final thoughts you’d like to share with our readers?

BC: For me, what I do is art. It is the conflict between the male and the female, the expression of mutual desire, all the secret fantasies that we hold back on a daily basis, and all our repressed sexual lust. When you watch an adult film, all these things are exposed for you to see in a raw form. That is what I want to bring out and show to the world.

I believe that I am an artist. I write my own scenes, I put together the costumes and props, and choose the actresses and locations that will fit into my story line. It is how I express myself without worrying about censorship or any other constraints to my creativity.

Intimacy can be made into art and that’s what I’m trying to do. For me the sex is really secondary. And to tell you the truth, it isn’t always that great.

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