(Los Angeles, CA / August 21, 2024) — Veteran adult performer and industry advocate Cherie DeVille is addressing the hypocrisy, erroneous commentary and selective criticisms of industry detractors in a new first-person piece for The Daily Beast.

The article, “I’m a Porn Star. This Anti-Pornhub Crusader Is Dead Wrong”, DeVille takes on the skewed narrative of anti-porn activist Laila Mickelwait and her specious claims within the pages of her book, Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking.

“Mickelwait insists she just wants to stop child pornography and rape. Still, legal adult entertainers have long argued that her mission is a Trojan Horse to end the law-abiding porn industry and that Mickelwait couldn’t care less about victims,” writes DeVille, well-known to fans as ‘The Internet’s Favorite Stepmom’.

While DeVille and her current industry contemporaries can offer plenty of positive accounts of life within the law-abiding confines of the porn business, she says, “I doubt Mickelwait wants to hear from experts in the modern adult industry. And she repeatedly misrepresents how porn’s business model works.”

DeVille adds, “In the end, Mickelwait’s crusade puts the livelihoods of legal porn actors like me in jeopardy. She brags in the book about Pornhub execs losing their home insurance and bank access without acknowledging that her campaign also led banks to cancel legitimate porn performers’ accounts.

“She expresses shock that anyone would claim her campaign to get MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub led directly to OnlyFans briefly banning porn. But when they did, tens of thousands of performers who depended on that platform lost their primary income source overnight. After reading her book, I doubt Mickelwait would care. If I learned one thing from Takedown, it’s that she only cares about herself.”

Find The Daily Beast article, “I’m a Porn Star. This Anti-Pornhub Crusader Is Dead Wrong”, at TheDailyBeast.com.

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ABOUT CHERIE DEVILLE:
Cherie DeVille is one of the adult industry’s most accomplished and respected models, film stars and content creators currently in the business, with 13 years and 1500+ sizzling onscreen credits for top studios such as Evil Angel, Girlfriends Films, Penthouse, Jules Jordan Video, MissaX, Mile High and Brazzers, where she is currently an exclusive contract star – to her name.

Born in Durham, NC and raised in Washington DC and Cape Cod, Massachusetts of French-Canadian descent, DeVille’s journey to success has been marked by her incredibly diverse skill set and achievements; growing up, she was actively involved in horseback riding, ballet, band, cheerleading and swimming, and worked as a lifeguard on the Cape, as well as a children’s day camp counselor, before earning degrees from the University of Hartford and University of Saint Augustine in Physical Therapy.

DeVille then launched a career as a traveling physical therapist and clinical instructor, which took her on assignments in locales such as St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Florida, Virginia Beach, Nashville and the New Jersey shore. She also enjoyed a successful spell as a professional swing dancer and glamour model before making her way into the adult film industry in 2011.

The star is also recognized as a thought leader in the adult creator space, contributing political columns and candid interviews to media outlets such as The Daily Beast, The Hill, Yahoo, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Associated Press, Barstool Sports and controversial Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, as well as an Adult Performer Advocacy Committee board member and Cam Model Protection ambassador, with the goal of elevating her industry’s practices and community. She has also won several prestigious awards, including 2023’s AVN MILF Performer of the Year and XBIZ Performer of the Year.

The 5’4 leading lady, who currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and dogs and plays Dungeons & Dragons in her spare time, continues to fuel her success and inspire those around her through an unwavering dedication to her craft, colleagues and many legions of fans who have supported her passions and extraordinary body of work over the years. To learn more about Cherie DeVille, visit CherieDeVille.com.