What’s new
Sex Soviet style
17th November 2022
A talented but sadly almost forgotten Russian artist today, Nikolai Sapach, who could turn his hand and erotic imagination to a range of styles from lavish Rococo to Soviet satire. See his work now by clicking here.
Anyone for whipping?
14th November 2022
A little light French flagellation today from a minor artist of the genre, Léon Roze. Some very titillating fin de siècle frilly underwear though! It can be found now on the website by clicking here. Enjoy!
Orgy time!
13th November 2022
Fancy an orgy on a beach in the south of France, or in one of those posh Mediterranean seaside hotels? Then today’s new artist, André Cottavoz, is an artist whose chaotic colourful imaginings will bring a smile to your day. Enjoy his work now by clicking here.
For adults only …
8th November 2022
For lovers of erotic alphabets, today we bring you the inventive, talented work of the St Petersburg artist and illustrator Mikhail Gavrichkov. Enjoy the military men, sailors and clerics with amazing members, the women with wonderful tattoos. See them all now by clicking here.
Punk rules
7th November 2022
To the New York punk rock scene today, and the colourful, entertaining, fantastic, gritty, sexy paintings of John John Jesse. This is the world of drink, drugs, tattoos and youthful nakedness – see his world now by clicking here.
Shocking stockings
6th November 2022
The Belgian artist Rachel Menchior is best known for the erotic drawings she made while she was still in her twenties, half a century ago. Her spare compositions hold much of the same power today as they did when they first shocked and her book was banned. See her work now by clicking here.
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5th November 2022
A special request to our Russian-speaking friends – we plan to add the St Petersburg artist Mikhail Gavrichkov, especially his 2012 Азбука для Взрослых (ABC for Adults), but we do not have a complete set in both colour and black and white. Can any of you help with scans/photos? If you can, email us at [email protected], and we will be eternally grateful!
Nacktkultur
5th November 2022
Most people who knew the Munich cultural historian Hans-Peter Rasp had no idea what a good artist he was, or that most of his drawings were both erotic and accomplished. Now you can see his imaginative and explicit portfolio by clicking here.
Erotic hippy fantasies
4th November 2022
If dreamy, hippy, doe-eyed 1970s lesbian love is your thing, you will love the early work of today’s new artist, Jean-Pierre Stholl, who couldn’t resist the extended fantasy. Fortunately he grew out of it to produce some even better work! See it all now by clicking here.
She who dominates …
1st November 2022
We debated for a long time whether to include the humiliation oeuvre of Namio Harukawa, eventually bowing to follower pressure to add his trademark femdom drawings. And maybe there is a liberatory feminist/queer rationale – judge for yourself 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.