Throughout the mid '80s, Mai Lin was a fixture in any video with an Asian sounding title, such as Yellow Fever or One Night in Bangkok, but in most other videos she just had supporting roles, "one f--- and out. Her most memorable moment occurred in Triple Exposure, in which she played a brothel madam."   The scene finishes with Silvera shooting his wad into Lin's face and hair. Still blindfolded, Lin wipes up the cum with her fingers and licks them clean.

After taking off a few years, Mai Lin returned to porn older and out of shape in Sorority Pink 2, Three Men and a Geisha and Oriental Treatment 2.  She was a wild woman, and numerous porn veterans like Milt Ingley and Mike Filene tell great stories about her exploits. Mai Lin spent one summer in Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area. "She saw this cute guy," remembers Ingley. "He had on his shorts and his muscle shirt and he would come down twice a week and empty her garbage. So Mai Lin put on her negligee and hid outside in the bushes and her husband hid inside and watched out the window. The guy came up the driveway to pick up the garbage cans. Mai Lin nailed him in the middle of the driveway. You can just picture the garbage truck going farther and farther away with nobody on the back, and the guy finally catches up and he explains that this little Oriental girl f---ed his brains out in the middle of the driveway. So all summer they gave him s---. The end of the summer, when he was ready to go back to college, he brought his supervisor over, and he said, "Look, they've given me s--- all summer. Would you tell him that you f---ed me in the middle of the driveway. So Mai Lin gave him a blowjob."

Mai Lin told photographer Viviene Maricevic: "I used to masturbate with a teddy bear when I was four years old and I didn't know it was masturbation until I was nineteen years old. I was a late bloomer because my parents never talked about sex. I didn't understand it was sexual until I got older. I first had sexual intercourse when I was eighteen or nineteen and I didn't really care for it because I really wasn't sure what was going on. I wasn't even sure how babies were made. Then I started to talk to more and more people about sex. I had this need to find out that sex was okay. When I got into a more serious relationship it was a lot more fun. After I had it the second time, I didn't stop. If I got it ten times a day, it wasn't enough.

"One day, I was at my brother's house and we watched people fucking in porn movies and I thought, This is the way one talks about sex: you just show them pictures. So I wanted a copy of myself getting it on with someone, and that's where it started. "On the set, I tell guys not to fuck me so hard because I have to concentrate, because if I come, I won't be able to hear the director. I try to think of something else instead of sex; otherwise I'll be making too much noise and then I can't hear anything.  "A scene that was really hot to me was in Sexual Heights with John Holmes. It wasn't necessarily what the camera picked up, it was the feeling we had for each other at the time. It was like falling in love with somebody, but on the set it's only for that one instant, you don't continue it."