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“People will realize it’s okay
to enjoy other people from
other ethnic backgrounds.”
Not just any man can get away with putting the word
“Adonis” on his chest and not have it sound like a boast.
But tattooed in capital letters at the center of Jacen
Zhu’s smooth pecs, it’s more like a statement of fact. This
month, Zhu will be gracing the stage at the 2019 GayVN
Awards, where he’ll serve as a trophy boy alongside
Nic Sahara and Dylan Hayes. “I’m excited for that,” Zhu
says. “I went last year, so this year it seems to be even
bigger.” Zhu got his start in porn in his mid-twenties after
deciding “I was old enough to give it a tryout.” He started
at Lucas Entertainment and “moved on and did a few
with Dawgpound and Next Door Ebony and then I was
exclusive with Cockyboys for a year. Now I’m starting to
work with Noir Male.” In addition to staying busy with
Cockyboys and Noir Male, he’s also hoping to work
with the Falcon Studios Group and Men.com.
He wants to write scripts as well, especially to create
some storylines that are “geared toward people of color,
especially within the black and Latinx community.” Zhu
also has more mainstream pop-culture obsessions, in-
cluding anime and sci-fi. “My favorite is Doctor Who.”
But he speaks most passionately about diversity. “If
we start showing the world in which we live in, then peo-
ple will realize it’s okay to enjoy other people from other
ethnic backgrounds. ... People like to say that porn is a
fantasy, and that is a fact, but also porn is a part of the
society at large and so we have to keep representing
the society that we live in. … It’s important to have ev-
erybody’s voices heard and stories told.”
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