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When Cherie DeVille started writing opinion pieces about the industry for The Daily
Beast last fall, she admitted being concerned about how fans would react.
After all, DeVille had spent the past decade building her brand as The Internet’s
Stepmom, prone to finding herself in sticky sexual situations, gaining hundreds of
thousands of admirers and collecting a bunch of awards along the way.
“I haven’t noticed that scary backlash that I had envisioned,” she tells me. “But I
decided in my head that at some point I needed to be more than the blow-up doll
Cherie DeVille that I had created. And look, I’m in this industry. I am a pornographer.
I do have a few other skills. Not to diminish it, but I do have other skills outside of my
sexual skills that could help our industry.
“And it’s really about fucking time that I started using them to bolster all of us as a
unit, and not just my own bank account with my sexual content.”
In addition to her insightful commentaries about current issues, DeVille reveals she
has another project in the works related to her desire to be a positive influence in
the porn community. She says the endeavor was inspired by her December column
titled “12 Steps to Become the Next Big Porn Star.”
“Something’s coming,” Cherie teases. “You’ll see soon… I just want to help some
of the younger performers avoid some of the pitfalls… Not that, ‘Oh, it’s a dangerous
industry.’ But just everything from basic brand management to how to incorporate,
to ways to manage your taxes—all of the things that school or the business doesn’t
prepare you for that you can really fall into.
“I’m just really interested in now transitioning a little bit to education and to helping
the industry that I love so much as a whole.”
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