Sometimes, it's weird. People say, "Are you, are you [whispers] Cynthia Plaster Caster" or "I know who you are. You do that thing, that thing with you-know-what." It's not a problem yet, and it won't be. For one thing, my mother doesn't know I do this.

Wow. And how old is she now?

She's about 84. I can't afford a bodyguard.

Why don't you tell her? Is she close-minded?

That ain't the word! She is in her own weird world. She just doesn't understand the pleasure of sex. She thinks it's evil. It's hard to explain things to her just in general. She maybe subconsciously would rather not know. She's happy in her own weird fantasy world.

Do you ever get tired of looking at a bunch of dicks on your mantelpiece?

Never. Never. They're like my pets. I have them in this room on pedestals, and there's a warm yellowish tint in the room, it's like sitting in your living room with your pet kitties.

Do you have a personal favorite among your collection -- maybe someone who wasn't the most famous or the biggest, but one you like for some other reason?

No, I love them all! They're my babies.

A lot of women think penises are ugly.

And scary.

I guess you're not one of them.

No! I think they're funny and cute and cuddly, they look kind of goofy. And that reminds me to tell you that I'm casting tits now.

Yeah, I read that you did Suzi Gardner from L7. Why did you decide to start doing breasts?

It was the right time. I had been thinking about it for a while. Tits as opposed to vaginas. I know girls who have done their vaginas and gotten really nasty infections. The boobs are a more cuddly object to me.

How do you broach the subject with someone for the first time?

When I'm friends with someone, it just crops up. I really have to like their music. I don't pop the question the first time I meet somebody. It might just be too heavy-handed for them. That's not me at all.

But you had to do that back when you were first getting started?

Yeah, but neither me nor my partner were very good at that. We would pass out calling cards. Again, in the '60s it was just not that unusual of a thing to ask someone to do. Strip down and try something new and different sexually.

Do you miss the open sexuality of the '60s?

No, I lived it and it helped teach me what I was and what I wasn't. Like being involved in orgies taught me that I wasn't interested in being involved in orgies! I'm really, really glad it happened, but I don't need it anymore.

You started this art form as a way to meet men back in the days when you were a virgin. But did it ever become more of a feminist thing for you, turning the tables and objectifying men?

No, it didn't. I discovered my feminism in different ways. I was never doing it to turn the tables or be on top or anything. In a way, I felt like I was in the exalted presence of a supreme being, and this could bring them down to the same level, the same page [as me]. But it wasn't an empowerment thing.

So what are you ultimately trying to say with this?

I'm saying, "Look at this chorus line of gorgeous penises, left and right and swirling around. Aren't they pretty?" That's all.

There's no message behind your work?

No. There could be, but I don't think there really has to be. I just want everybody to have a good laugh.

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