What’s new
Bears and cubs
30th April 2024
For a feast of gay fantasy (and maybe a bit of autobiography?), enjoy the work of today’s new artist, upstate New Yorker Neil Lavey, with any number of bear/cub encounters in dark places. See Neil’s work now by clicking here.
A true friend!
30th April 2024
If you know our website well you’ll know what riches have come from our friend, the collector Hans-Jürgen Döpp, both as portfolios and as interviews. Now much of Hans-Jürgen’s lifelong collection is being auctioned in Berlin on 10 May, and you can see the catalogue by clicking here. Let’s hope it finds some equally appreciative and generous homes.
Beauty and the Beast
27th April 2024
British artist Lisa Ivory is today’s new discovery, her work reminding us of our innate bestiality, and the wild imaginings within us if we are willing to explore and embrace it. See her powerful paintings now by clicking here.
Let me count the ways
24th April 2024
Kama Sutra on psychedelics – that’s today’s new artist, Spanish illustrator Roberto Maján. Forget Picasso and Matisse, Maján is where the action is! See all his positions, possible and impossible, now by clicking here.
Ooh! Aah! Mmm!
21st April 2024
‘Eroticism attracts me in all its forms, whether art, writing, experiences or dreams. It is my only interest, everything else is secondary.’ So writes today’s new artist, the well-known Italian cartoonist Giovanna Casotto, and you can see her work now by clicking here.
Screen shots
19th April 2024
Have you ever thought of recording your favourite x-rated screenshot captures as lovingly detailed pencil drawings? If so you’ll love those of today’s new artist, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, with his ongoing Webcam series. See them now in all their detail by clicking here.
Relating with feeling
16th April 2024
Today’s new artist in the Dutch painter Annika Lochtman, with her colourful canvases on the themes of childhood, motherhood and sex – seemingly free and simple but also expressing deep feeling. See a great selection of her work now by clicking here.
An alternative revolution
12th April 2024
Despite what Cuban history says about its military heroes, today’s new artist Ariel Cabrera Montejo shows them as human beings with sensual desires. Using the language and techniques of impressionism, he creates colourful new erotic works; see them now by clicking here.
The weirdnesses of sex
8th April 2024
Today’s new artist is the Canadian Claire Milbrath, whose brightly coloured faux-naïf paintings explore the world of contemporary dating and sexuality with a unique blend of observation and humour. Enjoy Claire’s work now by clicking here.
The bigger the better
3rd April 2024
Today’s new artist, Klaus Lelek, has two passions – large naked women and great stories for them to participate in. Plus a wonderfully idiosyncratic way with words! See no fewer than eight of his highly distinctive erotic tales now by clicking here.
Important recent updates
✨ Illustrator and portfolio lists
One of the most common requests we get (and the responses to the recent questionnaire confirm this) is that it would be really useful to have complete listings of all the artists and portfolios on the website – as of May 2026 728 artists and 2,003 portfolios!
So we’ve listened and heard … and by following this link you will find files with these listings in alphabetical order (and where there are several portfolios with the same name their artists will be in order too). The lists are in PDF format, so you can download, save and search them. They duplicate what you can already find in the artist and portfolio listings on the website, but if you’re really into erotic art and illustration and would like a quick ready reference, you should find these invaluable. Enjoy!
✨ Helping you to find your way around
You asked for it, we’ve done it – all the artists on the site now have a set of ‘Similar artists’ links at the end of their biography, so whether it’s bookplate artists, spanking artists, gay artists, whatever, you can cruise easily from artist to similar artist. Have fun!
✨ Hans-Jürgen Döpp, 1940–2025
Few people have shared their wisdom, experience – and wonderful collection of erotic art – more than Hans-Jürgen Döpp, who sadly died last year at the age of 84. For more than half a century Hans-Jürgen devoted himself to the study and collection of erotic art, not as a marginal curiosity or a private indulgence, but as an essential part of human culture. Through his work as a scholar, teacher, curator, author and collector, he helped establish erotic art as a serious field of artistic and historical enquiry. He was an enthusiastic supporter of honesterotica, sharing more than 200 of his portfolios with us, helping to make the website a unique resource of erotic art that would otherwise have been lost to the world. Read our tribute to Hans-Jürgen here.
✨ The difficult mirror
Artists, childhood, and the challenge of looking
At a time of growing concern about online child safety, we are very aware of how we handle the sensitive subject of depictions of children in art, especially ‘erotic art’. We have added an important Themes and Topics article here, which helps explore how artists over time have depicted naked children, and why it is as important to think seriously about what art is for and how we look at and experience it as about what is actually being depicted. Read the piece and see what you think.