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11-19-2002



Maybe it's because I've lived in San Francisco for years, but I have always thought of dildos as little works of art and dildo manufacturers as artists. They spend time designing, carving and replicating the body parts that make some of us very happy. Over the past few decades there have been a few artistes that have taken the art of penis replication to an entirely different level.


San Francisco is a city of cock creators. Vixen Creations, the sweethearts of silicone, is based here, and seminal sex toy store Good Vibrations offers the chance for you to make your own. But the really interesting and artful dames of the dick are Cate Cannon and, the Palme d'or Winner of Pricks, the Queen of the Cock Cannes, Cynthia Plaster Caster. Cate Cannon plays Cinderella in Oakland, with her perfect-fit glass dildos, and Plaster Caster is coming to San Francisco this weekend for the first time in 30 years.


Art for Sex


Is it art or is it a sex toy? This is one of those trick questions —it's really both. Oakland dildiér Cannon makes beautiful, hand-sculpted acrylic dildos individually from the highest grade rock hard acrylic stock.

No way this baby's breaking, no matter what you do to it. This is the type of dildo you don't want to hide in your underwear drawer; you want this toy on display. They also make good paperweights. Just remember to wash them off.

Cannon provides her clients with the highest quality attention to every detail desired —shape, size, contours, and color —she actually has a consultation with you and makes sure you get the perfect fit. These dildos are to be taken seriously. No cock connoisseur should ever be without one.

Prick Casting Queen

While a Cannon dildo is a stunning sex toy that actually has some use, Cynthia Plaster Caster makes her replicas just for the art of it (well, she probably has fun making them but all we get to do is look).

It was 1966, and Cynthia Plaster Caster had a school project to do. Her assignment from her professor was to make a plaster cast out of something solid, while her own personal assignment was to get laid. Her plaster casting supplies got her into the hotel room of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and while she didn't get a mold that first night, she did lose her virginity. That's all it took to convince Cynthia that she could combine her artistry, her love of rock stars, and her sexual appetite, into what has become probably the best known cock collection in the world. Since that first night she has captured hundreds of cocks and perfected her plaster casting technique.

She now uses dental alginates, but she didn't get here without some trials and tribulations. Plaster casting requires some fluffing. Cynthia does some of her own stimulation or works with wives or girlfriends to help get the dick ready for capturing. Cynthia's penile success made her the subject of a KISS song ("Plaster Caster") and got her Frank Zappa as a sponsor.

Zappa may have been the reason dozens of rock cocks have been immortalized, yet fans won't see Frank's johnson. Disappointed? Maybe. But devotees will be thrilled to learn they are indeed a part of rock 'n' roll history —for the first time replicas of the infamous plaster pricks will be for sale. A limited edition of 199 replicas of the late, great Jimi Hendrix's cock cast —the biggest both in size and infamy —will be available. In addition to that, San Francisco locals and punk rock diehards will be able to see how big Dead Kennedys former frontman Jello Biafra really is.

Some of the penis profits will go to the Cynthia P. Caster Foundation, a non-profit that gives grants to artists, musicians and filmmakers for money for their artistic endeavors.

Cate Cannon can be reached through her website www.artforsex.com.

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