What’s new
Are you the one?
8th February 2024
Feels like honesterotica could really do with some good, insightful publicity – do we have any brilliant journalist/bloggers among our followers who would like to write a great story? Rosie can’t wait to be interviewed! Email us if you’re up for it – [email protected].
The meaning of life
7th February 2024
Is the work of the Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa crude and disgusting, or does it offer important insights into the human condition, sexuality and mortality? As today’s new artist, you can now see his wide-ranging portfolio by clicking here, and decide for yourself.
Belles amours
6th February 2024
A stylish and non-controversial amuse-bouche for you all today, Joseph Hémard’s 1935 gallery of famous lovers, in his trademark brightly-stencilled images. But why are only the women naked? Hmm. See them now by clicking here.
Stolen memories
4th February 2024
Today we bring you the fascinating work of Mirza Cizmic, a series of disturbing family scenes whose deviant transgression cuts through a veneer of seemingly normal domesticity. Each painting tells a complex story, but what is the story? See his work now by clicking here.
Anima mundi
2nd February 2024
‘I like playing at the fine border between the moral and immoral, between instinct and sex.’ This is today’s new artist, Romanian Andu Avasilinei, with his ultra-realistic approach to human flesh, imperfections and all. See his powerful work now by clicking here.
Warrior women
1st February 2024
Ghita of Alizarr, Lann and Fey Brith are all warrior woman creations of the master of American comics Frank Thorne, becoming increasingly unclothed and sexually explicit as the artist freed himself from commercial constraints. See the progression now by clicking here.
Relating in the raw
27th January 2024
Nazanin Pouyandeh’s characters in her paintings and drawings, most of them naked, tell wonderful and complex stories about relationship, power, desire, fear and death. What a compelling imagination! See a great collection of her work now by clicking here.
Imagination unlimited
25th January 2024
‘I find nothing fantastic in so-called fantastic art,’ Thomas Häfner wrote of his work. ‘It is an aspect of reality in search of sanity beyond the normal bounds.’ See Häfner’s thought-provoking, often erotically-charged, work now by clicking here.
Small is beautiful
23rd January 2024
Back to the miniature world of bookplates with today’s new artist, the Slovak erotic ex libris maestro Peter Kocák. See an inspiring collection of his work now by clicking here.
Boob tubes
19th January 2024
Erotic art doesn’t come much kinkier and weirder than today’s new portfolio, an amateur breast fantasy from the 1950s. You thought you knew what boob tubes are? Think again. Click here for the correct answer!
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.