Steele's career consisted mainly of being on the strip club dance circuit for long stretches at a time, with comparatively brief returns to California to shoot movies. As a result, she appeared in fewer than 40 porn films during the approximately five year period of her heyday. She claimed to not have any sex while on her dance circuit, and that essentially her entire sex life for several years consisted of what was shot for movies, which contributed to her obvious enthusiasm and frequent apparent orgasms in her videos.

Her performances on film originally consisted mostly of vaginal intercourse and oral sex. Her first on-screen anal sex scene was featured in the movie Steele Butt in 1993. She also starred in two movies of Gangbang Girl series which featured extensive anal sex (selena did not perform anal intercourse in the Gangbang Girls films but did perform analingus on several of the male performers) and continued to perform anal scenes for several years afterward.

After 1993, Steele essentially disappeared from the porn movie industry for almost ten years. She resurfaced in the 2000s, primarily in specialty movies for the MILF market, enjoying a career comeback that trades in on her earlier fame. While older, she still maintains an attractive figure and shoulder-length brunette hair.