The man accused of getting into a portable toilet and watching women at a yoga festival in Boulder says it’s his “hobby.”

In a telephone interview from his Vail jail cell, 30-year-old Luke Irvin Chrisco said he’s been peeping through holes in restrooms all over the world, and he admitted to having drilled five to six in restrooms in Boulder businesses.

“There are two types of people in this world,” Chrisco said. “One type of person who walks in the room and says, ‘Hey, look at me,’ and the other person that says, ‘Hey, look at you, you’re special.’ ”

Chrisco says his “voyeurism” started in France a year and a half ago.

“When it came to girls, I was always just thinking they were special, something to behold,” Chrisco said.

“I was just wandering in and out of restrooms and stuff, trying to find a hole to drill from the men’s side to the women’s side. So I can practice my world view, which is to say my love for the goddesses is deeper than the ocean and wider than the sea, taller than the highest mountain. I owe them everything; they’re my inspiration.”

He never intended to scare anyone, he said, as he did in Boulder last week when he is accused of climbing into a portable toilet and hiding in the well beneath the seat.

“I was like, ‘Well, you know, it seems clean,’ ” he said.

“Seems probably ironic that I would say that. It really had been pumped the day before and cleaned out. I just jumped inside it.”

Chrisco said a woman saw him and he had to run.

“One of the women actually saw me, my head in there, let out a little shriek. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this was never what I intended,’ ” Chrisco said.

Boulder police say Chrisco faces a number of charges, including unlawful sexual contact and invasion of privacy.

Boulder investigators have confirmed there are peepholes in the restrooms of several local businesses. The names of the businesses were not being released.

Family members told the Camera that Chrisco is a brilliant but “eccentric” person who is misunderstood and that they don’t believe he was responsible for the bizarre incident.

Also Friday, the Daily Camera discovered that Chrisco is connected to a number of pornographic and sexually suggestive websites that list his occupation as a “porn star” and a male escort with “reasonable rates to sexy or clean people.”

Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel confirmed Friday that Chrisco is linked to Max Extreme Models, which lists him as president on the agency’s website.