What’s new
How to keep warm
2nd December 2023
To Sweden today, and the stylish robust linocuts to accompany a classic collection of erotic Scandinavian folk tales, created by the uniquely talented artist Svenolov Ehrén. See them all now by clicking here.
Ooh la la!
1st December 2023
Another talented and original French graphic novel illustrator for you today – Emmanuel Murzeau and his versions of Les Aphrodites and L’Académie des Dames. A knowledge of French helps, but is not essential to appreciate his art! See his work now by clicking here.
By the book
25th November 2023
Ex Libris or bookplates are a very popular miniature form of erotic art, with an international following of connoisseur collectors. Today’s new artist, the Belgian Hedwig Pauwels, is a master of the form, and you can see a selection of his work now by clicking here.
Transgressive fantasies
21st November 2023
‘Bernardo Muñoz is truly a great artist, and Déviances is probably the best erotic comic of the last twenty years.’ So writes fellow comic writer Hernàn Migoya, and we agree! See Déviances now by clicking here, and be impressed.
Up yours
20th November 2023
After much work collecting, collating and improving the images, we bring you today the most complete known collection of 1940s klismaphilia, the erotic use of the enema. A niche kink, but a fascinating one! See the whole Hintern Hoch portfolio now by clicking here.
Sweet innocence
17th November 2023
Pierre Louÿs’ short prose narratives and André Dignimont’s sensitive drawings of young women are the perfect partnership for the 1925 limited edition collection Quatorze Images (Fourteen Pictures). You can see all the illustrations now by clicking here.
Erotika
16th November 2023
A 1940s amuse-bouche for you today, an anonymous portfolio of well-executed sexual fantasies, probably by a Czech artist. All the usual encounters, plus a daring threesome – see them all now by clicking here.
Come up and see my etchings …
15th November 2023
Not the most explicitly erotic images by today’s standards, but in the late 18th century Charles Eisen was the leading French engraver illustrating libertine texts. See the complete plates for Boccaccio’s Decameron and La Fontaine’s stories now by clicking here.
Right royal goings on
14th November 2023
What was it about Spain’s plump Queen Isabella II, her husband Francisco de Paula and her confessor Antonio Maria Claret that was so attractive to 1860s political satirist Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer? Find out and see all his explicit watercolours now by clicking here.
Roman justice?
13th November 2023
It’s a great pleasure to bring you all a new portfolio by Raoul Serres, aka Schem. It’s his illustrations for a 1949 edition of La porte de l’âne (The Donkey Gate), the story of the fate of Antonia, an (understandably) unfaithful Roman woman. See them all 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.