Keni Styles

Keni Styles
Styles attending the XBIZ Awards in Hollywood, CA, February 2011
Born (1981-05-27) 27 May 1981[1]
Thailand[1]
Other names Keni Stiles, Kenny, Keni Style[1]
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Weight 129 lb (59 kg; 9.2 st)[1]

Keni Styles (born 27 May 1981) is a British former pornographic actor of Thai descent.[1]

Early life

Styles was born to a single mother who was a sex worker in Thailand.[2] They moved to the United Kingdom when she married a British national.[2] When the marriage ended, she moved back to Thailand leaving Styles at an orphanage where he lived until the age of 16.[2] After living several years in a halfway house, he started Boxing and joined the British Army and served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo twice and Iraq twice during his seven years of active duty.[2] After leaving the Army, he entered the pornography industry, starting a company called "Superman Stamina".[2]

Career

Styles was active in pornographic movies from August 2006, and retired in 2015.[3] He first found steady work in Eastern Europe, relocating to live in both Prague and Budapest. In January 2010, Styles moved to Los Angeles.[2] He is regarded as the first heterosexual Asian male porn star in American pornography[4] by some. In July 2015, Styles announced his retirement from the porn industry on his blog, KeniCamz.[5]

Awards

YearAwardTitleResult
2006UK Adult Film AwardsBest Male NewcomerWon[6]
2007UK Adult Film AwardsBest Supporting Male ActorWon[7]
2008Erotic AwardsBest Porn ArtistWon[8]
2011XBIZ AwardMale Acting Performance Of The YearWon[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Keni Styles". Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jeff Yang (2010-03-25). "Mightier than the sword". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 2. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "MYSPACE". Retrieved 2009-05-31.
  4. ↑ Harry Mok (2011-02-04). "Bruce Lee Porn Parody Star Keni Styles Breaks Asian Male Stereotypes". Hyphen. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  5. ↑ http://kenicamz.com/escape-porn-valley/#comment-44
  6. ↑ "The UK Adult Film & TV Awards 2006". BGAFD.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  7. ↑ "The UK Adult Film & TV Awards 2007". BGAFD.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  8. ↑ "Erotic Awards 2008". EROTIC-AWARDS.co.uk. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
  9. ↑ XBIZ Award Winners, XBIZ, February, 2011

Further reading

  • Shimizu, Celine Parreñas (2013), "Bound by expectation: the racialized sexuality of porn star Keni Styles", in Shimizu, Celine Parreñas; Taormino, Tristan; Penley, Constance; Miller-Young, Mireille, The feminist porn book: the politics of producing pleasure, New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, pp. 287–302, ISBN 9781558618183.
  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Keni Styles on IMDb
  • Keni Styles on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  • Keni Styles at the Internet Adult Film Database
  • Keni Styles at the Adult Film Database
  • Keni Styles (28 December 2012). "8 Questions: Keni Styles, Asian American Male Adult Film Star" (Interview). Interviewed by Koji Steven. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
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