Deborah, alongside her business partner Nan Kinney, co-founded Blush Entertainment and Fatale Video, a pioneering adult entertainment company that produced explicit lesbian videos. The duo's early films, including Clips and Suburban Dykes, released in 1992, deviated from the typical girl/girl content of the time by featuring more realistic butch/femme character roles. Many of the women involved in these productions were self-identified lesbians in real life, and their work aimed to promote acceptance and sex positivity within the lesbian community.
Under the pseudonym Fanny Fatale, Deborah co-founded On Our Backs magazine in 1984 with Myrna Elana. The publication continued until 2006, although Deborah and her partners sold the company in 1996. Over the years, On Our Backs was joined by notable contributors such as author Susie Bright, photographer Honey Lee Cotrell, and others. The magazine played a significant role in shaping lesbian sex-positive feminism and defining the movement between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s by publishing explicit erotic content.
In 1992, Deborah released her debut educational video, How to Female Ejaculate, which provided an anatomical breakdown of the process before explicitly demonstrating it. As the first educational video on the topic, Deborah went on to publish several books on female ejaculation and conducted in-person workshops and online courses throughout her career.
