What’s new
Ferociously voluptuous, joyfully sensual
19th September 2022
Today’s new artist is Lulu Amere, whose painting is a breath of fresh air in a world seeking itself, a sensuous delight that leaves us with a smile on our face. Her work is an art of seduction – she paints to seduce herself, and thereby to seduce us. See Lulu’s work now by clicking here.
Role reversal
16th September 2022
A witty, outspoken, iconoclastic new artist for you today, New York based Alexandra Rubinstein with her in-your-face canvases of men and sex from a female perspective. She paints what you don’t dare to imagine! See her work now by clicking here.
All you need is love
12th September 2022
It has taken us a while to source the two rare late-1960s portfolios of the French artist Raymond Bertrand, but we are now delighted to present all 200+ of his psychedelic drawings and paintings. My goodness it takes you back! See them all now by clicking here.
Customer satisfaction
11th September 2022
An exciting new addition today, the talented French erotic comic artist Olaf Boccère, including his well-known Chambre 121 exploits of a hotel receptionist looking after the sexual requirements of his clients. See a comprehensive selection of his work now by clicking here.
Orgies and exhibitionists
10th September 2022
Another talented but almost forgotten French illustrator today, Michel Siméon with his two colourful and explicit 1961 contributions to the erotic classics Nuits d’Orgie and Cécile. See them all now by clicking here.
Chez Madame Blanche
9th September 2022
A sweet pair of hand-painted portfolios for you today from an unknown amateur French artist, made around 1910. Clearly for ‘personal use’, they make up in imagination what they lack in artistic skill! Enjoy Madame Blanche’s Establishment for Girls now by clicking here.
A singer’s secrets
1st September 2022
The French illustrator Paul Vexiau, who used the pseudonym Polvexio, only produced one erotic portfolio, but his drawings of the exploits of a promiscuous German chanteuse are well worth checking out. See them now by clicking here.
Vulnerable intimacy
31st August 2022
Today’s new artist, Joyce Polance, presents images of women as they exist in relationship with one another – as friends, lovers, mothers, sisters, soulmates. Not explicitly erotic, but definitely honest and intimate. See her work now by clicking here.
A short stretch of lust
26th August 2022
Though her ‘erotic period’ was short (coinciding with a ‘lust period’?), Katinka Niederstrasser’s imaginative graphics are clever and thought-provoking. See them now by clicking here.
Antique debauchery
26th August 2022
The prolific eighteenth-century English painter George Morland created just thirteen explicitly erotic images, but the prints made from them, including Fanny Hill and Tom Jones, quickly became early classics of the genre. 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.