What’s new
A friendly kick up the a***
22nd June 2023
Come on folks, we want to hear from you about your favourite images, and you’ve got just a week left to tell us. Don’t just be a passive consumer, be an active participant! Click here now for full instructions, and get choosing and writing. Do it today x (special kiss from Rosie).
Don’t know what got into me …
21st June 2023
Today’s new artist is London-based Polly Nor, with her trademark paintings of women and their demons, sometimes malign but often friendly and supportive. You can see a great selection of Polly’s work now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Ye gods!
20th June 2023
Back to the late eighteenth century for today’s new artist, Jacques-Joseph Coigny and his famous series of engravings of gods, goddesses and other mythical beings demonstrating the variety of sexual positions. See them all now by clicking here.
Hear no, see no, speak no …
13th June 2023
Celebration of extreme perversion, exploration of human frailty, or immersion into the darkest and deepest recesses of our subconscious? Today’s new artist is England-bred, Japan-residing Trevor Brown, with his controversial Baby Art – see it all now by clicking here.
Pleasure as a right …
12th June 2023
A woman’s right to pleasure – that’s the central theme of the work of today’s new artist, California-based Natalie Krim. Right? Maybe more of a demand! See Natalie’s work now by clicking here.
The dark side
5th June 2023
Today’s new artist is the Mexican-born, Barcelona-based Gino Rubert, with his trademark collage paintings and drawings exploring the deeper aspects of human relationships. Erotic yes, but also disturbing and thought-provoking. See his work now by clicking here.
Brand spanking new
3rd June 2023
Art as therapy is maybe one interpretation of the naïve spanking drawings of today’s new artist, identified only as a German woman called Alina. What are the stories behind her colourful scenarios? See Alina’s work now by clicking here.
Honesterotica and the fair use of images
29th May 2023
As anyone who visits this site regularly will know, the amount of material we have brought together over the years is pretty phenomenal – more than 700 artists, well, over 2,000 portfolios, and more than 100,000 images. We put a lot of effort into ensuring that our images are the best possible… read moreImportant 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.