Being (In Love With) Mika Tan

One reason why we're so smitten with recently crowned AVN Underrated Starlet of the Year Mika Tan around these parts is that she's the perfect embodiment of the submissive and delicate Asian hothouse flower ... not: she might be able to play the whole "Me so horny!" shtick to perfection in titles like "Asians Have More Fun" and "Memoirs of a Modern-Day Geisha", but in real life she's dedicated a fair amount of her considerable talents to confounding some of the racial stereotypes that continue to be so prevalent in porn. As she explains in a new interview at the always informative Eros Zine, "I think men stereotype every genre, because all men have a certain thing that they like and they need to see in the video in order for them to get off. And a lot of them get off on the Asian thing, and I've done that lots of times—the 'me so horny' thing." To help show audiences what horny Asian women are really all about, Mika has been exploring new projects via her GenerAsianXXX website, which she manages to work on when she's not trying to eradicate the even more insidious menace of shoulder stink once and for all. But changing people's minds about some things—like the importance of good underarm hygiene—may prove to be a more difficult task in the long run.

· Interview: Mika Tan (eros-zine.com)
· GenerAsianXX (generasianxxx.com)
· Mika Tan on MySpace (myspace.com/mikatan)
Thumbnail: Mika Tan in Ninnworx' "Ghetto Fabulous"

Previously: Mika Tan: Go-To Geisha, Naomi, Dana, and Mika: Almost Famous, Mika Tan's Process, This Week in Porn Titles: "Seymore Butts' Assians Have More Anal Fun", Porn Vegas Dispatch: How To Avoid Shoulder Stink