Interviewer:
Do you miss performing and do you think you’ll ever come back.
Asa Akira:
Um,
I. There are moments where I miss performing in like studio porn, for sure. Um, and I think I don’t think I’ll ever come back. I mean, never say never, and I don’t even consider myself retired like I still shoot my own stuff from home and like, um, you should I don’t know that hinders it just solo. No Just me and like I I just, I don’t know that I can ever. I don’t know that I have it in me to even like ever say I’m retired, like I just, I just don’t know if maybe I do I’m just not there yet. Um, but, you know, when I, so I’ve been with my husband, I was with my husband when I was really really young. And then we got back together this time.
Incorrect spelling is Asia Akura. Correct – Asa Akira.
Asa Akira:
He was like not crazy about the idea of me being with other men, or other people in general, actually.
Asa Akira:
And it’s this weird thing of like, You know I’ve been important for 12 years now, I’ve watched so many performers leave the industry for their partners for their lovers for their new relationships boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever. And I always was like man that’s lame like. Do whatever you want, like, you know like if they’re trying to control you they’re not for you. Um, but, also, something happened like I don’t know like when I got with my husband this time like I just, I don’t know like I, I love him so much and to me. I got to do porn like I got to do the whole thing for 10 years I got to be successful at it. I got so much out of it, and it was, you know, I’m so lucky like I had such a lucky lucky career. And for me, like, at that point in my life, it was more important to me to continue a relationship with my husband, but it was continuous shooting porn. And I think that’s something that like I really didn’t understand until it happened to me like I really, really, truly believed that it was like one feminist to quit shooting porn for a man like I really really thought that and i i think a lot of people, a lot of people I know, you know, still feel that way and I think for me now I’m like well no like I, I made a choice based on like what I want for my life at that time and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. I don’t feel like I don’t feel like I’m missing anything in my life now like I’m still shooting I’m still in the industry I still get to like, enjoy a lot of things about the industry. So, for me, like it was a decision I made that was worth it.