When she's not helping coordinate the Bay Area Web Sites brainstorm-and-interest group, adult entertainment star and self-confessed nerd junkie Caity MacPherson spends her time running Juicy Mango, a Web site with some witty twists on erotic imagery.
"I have original photos of women from San Francisco and Silicon Valley with a fun vibe and fresh attitude," MacPherson says on the site. "It's not a niche site - it doesn't have a focus on one particular fetish, for example…(and w)e also love doing outdoor nude shoots."
Especially with high-tech themes. "But it's not like we're flashing kids coming out of school or elderly women walking in a park," she says. "It's pretty harmless, and we've never had any trouble from the cops, though one time a Yahoo! employee got pretty uptight about my naked friend. I want Juicy Mango's photos to have a local flair, so folks get a sense that they might see one of my friends in a Safeway."
MacPherson isn't especially particular about her audience, but she does admit to having a particular attraction to what she calls "the smart, nerdy underdog…(m)en who have something to discover are always sexy to me, and the handsome jock has always seemed like an open book. Geeks are a challenge - what's he thinking about sexually?"
Perhaps that was one inspiration for Tech Sign Girls, a pictorial feature on Juicy Mango, showing finely-exposed young ladies afront various signage representing various high-tech firms such as Xerox, Lycos, and Lucent Technologies. That and MacPherson's own background which includes high-tech work as well as entertaining at San Francisco's Lusty Lady Theatre.
"I've encouraged the sexualization of the nerd," she boasts on her site. "When I produce content for Juicy Mango, I often have the nerdy guy in mind. I'm not interested, frankly, in communicating to the football player surfing the 'Net. I have a tendency to overestimate the intellect of the average Web surfer, actually."
MacPherson also speaks favorably about a current porn film, Cryptic Seduction, which she says has caught mainstream attention for its incorporation of traditional porn with "smart, nerdy" people. "It's interesting because it's more sophisticated than most of the stereotypical geeks you see in porn. It's about cypher punks (cryptographers)."
Her high-tech erotica interest, she says, began when she was dared to pose in front of an Oracle sign and an Oracle worker swore the company stock went up when the photo was published online.
"Voyeurism is one of the least harmful sexual expressions - and I get to indulge in it online all the time," she says.
