Rolling Stone has published an in-depth account of Cynthia Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, a Chicago groupie who made plaster casts of rock musicians' erect penises from the late 1960s onwards. The article's centrepiece is her most famous session: casting Jimi Hendrix at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel on 25 February 1968. The piece matters as both a piece of rock history and a reappraisal of Albritton's work, arguing that what began as titillating "groupie" activity became a genuine body of art that inverted the usual power dynamic between rock stars and their female fans.

Over her career Albritton produced roughly 60 penis casts and 10 casts of female musicians' breasts, earning cult status and references in songs by Jim Croce and Kiss and in the 2024 film Drive-Away Dolls. She used dental alginate to make the moulds before filling them with plaster, a technique she spent two years refining. After her death in 2022 at the age of 74, friends approached the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, which accepted her diaries, casting notes, memorabilia and more than a hundred casts. The article draws on the author's access to this archive, granted by curator Rebecca Fasman in April 2024, alongside interviews with nearly two dozen of Albritton's friends.