‘I Can Be a Therapist and… Do Porn’

Meet Jet Setting Jasmine, who is rejecting cultural norms through her work in therapy and adult films

Photos courtesy of Jasmine.

Jet Setting Jasmine is all over the place, as her name suggests. Within the past week, she has hosted sold out Steel and Stilettos fitness classes, as well as Kinky Popups in Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, and New York. Charlotte is next on her travel schedule among other places that haven’t been announced yet. The year has only just begun, but her busy life as a sexy entrepreneur is by design.

That design is propelled by all that Jasmine is. But she is “a project chick, first and foremost,” she says. After that, the list is long. The 39-year-old is a multifaceted businesswoman, a mother of three, a clinical mental health therapist, and a gerontologist. She’s also an adult film star who lives with the audacity of Lil’ Kim squatting in the Hardcore poster.

From academia to porn to entrepreneurship, Jasmine is unabashed in all she does because she loves it.

“I believe that I can be a therapist, and I can also do porn. I can do both things. I can be a mom and I can also be a sex educator, and those things do not cause me a fork in the road every day.”

In an age when women are still judged for how they choose to exist, it was important for Jasmine to unlearn the sexist tropes she was taught about sex and womanhood. Deprogramming paved the way for her to professionally pursue her passion for pleasure in ways that tie together all facets of who she is.

“I believe that I can be a therapist, and I can also do porn. I can do both things. I can be a mom and I can also be a sex educator, and those things do not cause me a fork in the road every day,” Jasmine tells ZORA. “I don’t have to decide if I want to be a mother or if I want to travel on the swingers cruise. None of those things are prerequisite for the other, or a requirement in any way shape or form, nor do they exclude me.”

Jasmine, a first-generation American born to a Panamanian father and Filipino mother, grew up in Queens, New York. She currently resides in…