A man who regularly dons orthopaedic casts despite not being injured has transformed his hobby-turned-fetish into a career selling sexual images of the medical apparatus online as part of a business he runs with his supportive wife.

Kevin Masters, 36, the CEO of Cast Productions and a trained mechanic, first showed an interest in medical casts when he broke his arm as a child – but it was not until he suffered a near-death experience after crashing his motorbike in 2009 that he began regularly applying casts to his body.

His hobby grew into a sexual fetish in early adulthood, which he shared with partners and friends when he appeared on the TLC show My Strange Addiction in 2015.

Kevin says he casts himself ‘whenever the mood strikes’ (Collect/PA Real Life)

Since then, Kevin started earning money by selling images of himself and other models in casts online – including pictures of him wearing casts and little else in bed, in the bath and in risque positions – landing him a combined 1,250 US dollars per month along with revenue from his YouTube channel.

The hobby has started to lose its “sexual component” for him personally, but he sees his output as a growing business opportunity and he still casts himself around once per month – particularly enjoying the fun of having people sign his cast.

Having taken a course many years ago in how to make medical casts, he also helps other people interested to experience the unique pastime.

In 2022, he married his wife Erin, 33, who is also a CEO of Cast Productions, and Kevin said part of the reason their relationship blossomed is “because she was very cool with it all”.

Kevin and his wife Erin got married in 2022 (Collect/PA Real Life)

Kevin, who has a child from a previous relationship and lives with Erin in Chicago, Illinois, told PA Real Life: “I know people have a lot of anxiety when it comes to being open about their desires to wear casts.

“I’m very open and honest about it but other people might not be as comfortable.

“It can be anxiety inducing telling someone that you like casts – but I am the way I am, telling people or hiding it won’t change that.

“I’m honest with people now if they ask why I’m wearing a cast, I tell them that I’m not injured, I just like wearing it.”

Kevin now focuses a lot of his time on turning his fetish into a side hustle with the hopes of growing a business (Collect/PA Real Life)

Kevin had been interested in casts as a child and, when he broke his wrist rollerblading aged 12, his arm was put into a fibreglass cast.

He said: “When I was a kid I had seen a few people in casts and that sort of sparked my interest. Like what does the cast feel like?

“When I broke my wrist, I hid my cast, I think pretty much nobody knew that I had it. I think I hid it because I felt guilty, I had this thought process of ‘what if somebody found out that I enjoy it?’

Kevin now runs Cast Productions with his wife Erin (Collect/PA Real Life)

“One of the things I would do as a kid is I would steal all my parents’ toilet paper and I would wrap up my legs and arms, and it kind of gave me that feeling of pressure.

“I liked the feeling of it at first and then as I grew older and I hit puberty, then it became a sexual thing.”

Kevin recalled trying to suppress his desire to wear more casts until he suffered a near-fatal motorbike accident in 2009, where he “flew” off his bike and broke his femur on impact.

Through his content, Kevin makes a combined income of around 1,250 US dollars a month (Collect/PA Real Life)

He added: “When I made a full recovery, I just thought about it and realised I didn’t want to hide it anymore.

“It didn’t seem as big of a deal after the accident.”

Kevin began ordering supplies online to cast himself and, in 2011, he took part in a training course in Florida to learn the healthcare techniques to cast properly.

Since then, he has been purchasing his supplies in bulk.

Kevin said he experienced “overwhelming anxiety” when he first started casting himself.

Alongside running Cast Productions, Kevin is also trained as a mechanic (Collect/PA Real Life)

He said: “I would worry that if I put a cast on then what would I tell people and if I was honest with them, then I had that fear of rejection.

“When I was first starting out, I told my girlfriend at the time and one other friend, and they let me try out casting them.

“At some point I realised that there was a big gay community that liked seeing men in casts – so that’s when I started wearing more casts and I started producing my own content.”

Kevin appeared in the TLC show My Strange Addiction and said interest in his hobby ‘boomed’ overnight (Collect/PA Real Life)

In 2015, Kevin appeared in the TLC show My Strange Addiction and said interest in his hobby “boomed” overnight.

He added: “Because of the show, I’ve gotten a lot of people who have messaged me and say ‘hey, I want to tell my wife that I want to cast her, how do I do this?’ I always start back with, ‘have you asked her to wear a cast?’ and the answer is almost always no.

“You’ve got to start from there, people fear so much judgment but you’ve got to ask your spouse or your girlfriend or whoever you’re dating or want to cast. If they say no then that’s the end of it but tell your significant other that you want to cast them and see what they say, they might say yes.”

Kevin hopes that by being open about his interest in casts, he will help to break down the stigma around the fetish (Collect/PA Real Life)

Over time, Kevin said the hobby has started to lose its “sexual component” for him and now he focuses a lot of his time on turning it into a side hustle with the hopes of growing a business.

“Over time it’s sort of lost the sexual component and now it’s more of the social component, it’s more that wearing a cast out in public to have people sign it is fun,” he said.

“I’ll have people contact me who want to experience wearing a cast and I’ll happily cast them. They just pay for the supplies and sometimes we’ll do a photo shoot.

“I cast myself whenever the mood strikes me, sometimes it’ll be once in three months, other times it’s more regularly – I probably cast myself on average once a month now.”

Kevin said he still casts himself around once a month (Collect/PA Real Life)

Since his motorcycle accident, Kevin has needed further surgery on his left leg and said his expertise in casting has also come in handy during his recovery.

He said: “Doctors tend to give you medical boots instead of casts now so I was prescribed a boot which I wore for two weeks but I realised it was not making my leg heal so I ended up putting on my own cast and I found out that a cast can actually heal a fracture much better than some of these boots can.”

Kevin had his first cast after breaking his wrist rollerblading aged 12 (Collect/PA Real Life)

Trained as a mechanic, Kevin has been unable to work since his latest surgery, so the dad has been focusing his attention on his growing business, Cast Productions.

Kevin runs two Patreon pages where people can subscribe to see photos of him and other models wearing casts, and also posts content on YouTube which makes him a combined income of around 1,250 US dollars a month.

He hopes that by being open about his interest in casts, he will help to break down the stigma around the fetish.

Kevin has begun making money by selling images of himself and other models in casts online as well as helping other people experience being placed in casts (Collect/PA Real Life)

He added: “I feel like a lot of people think it’s like stolen valour, why would you pretend to be injured?

“But that’s just the scenario of when you’d get a cast, really it’s just people’s desires to wear the cast, not to seem injured.

“I am who I am, I am the way I am, and that’s kind of how I found my wife because she was very cool with it all.

“I’m at a point now where I’m just like – take it or leave it.”

For Kevin’s YouTube channel, visit: www.youtube.com/@castproductions01