What’s new
Stylish orientalism
12th May 2022
Today’s newcomer to @honesterotica is the Russian-French painter, graphic artist and sculptor Génia Minache, who came to book illustration relatively late in life. See her stylish paintings for the Kama Sutra, Omar Khayyám and more by clicking here.
New Apollonia!
11th May 2022
A treat for all Apollonia Saintclair lovers today – Volume 5 of Ink is My Blood is ready, and you can see a large selection from the collection by clicking here. As film director Anthony Byrne writes in the introduction, ‘Let her set you free’.
Are art and the erotic inseparable?
5th May 2022
At last – Picasso! Not just his erotic paintings, but the three amazing series of erotic etchings made in 1968 in his final fling of creativity when he was in his mid-80s. What an artist, what an impossible man, especially for women! See them all now by clicking here.
The source of life
4th May 2022
‘An artist of sensuality creating an authentic language – in his erotic cycle he reached the height of his talent’. That’s today’s new artist, the Cuban Servando Cabrera Moreno, with his intertwined naked bodyscapes. See them all now by clicking here, and be moved.
Thank you all!
2nd May 2022
Two landmarks for honesterotica in one weekend. Meeting some lovely people at Erotic Arts London – and reaching 10K, yes 10,000, Twitter followers. That’s you folks! Spread the word, let’s see how long it takes to reach 20K ?
Not for the uninitiated …
28th April 2022
Another offering from Anon today, though if you know who ‘G. Rolland’ was maybe we can upgrade it. It’s a set of sweetly amateur drawings for a 1961 edition of the Kama Sutra, ‘interdit aux mineurs’ (forbidden for minors), which you can see now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Walkies anyone?
27th April 2022
Some amateur but amusing new drawings by the great Anon for you today – Phallische Spiele/Phallic Games from 1930s Berlin. Enjoy the fun as their stylish owners take their pet penises to see the world by clicking here!
Erotic Arts London
27th April 2022
Erotic Arts London opens tomorrow! I know our followers are from all round the world, but if you’re anywhere near London next weekend we would love to see you – details of honesterotica presentations attached. EAL is at Bargehouse on London’s South Bank.
A torrent of erotic comics
26th April 2022
The French cartoonist Robert Hugues never intended to be an erotic artist, and by his own admission would probably agree that he was not one of the erotica maestros, but he was in the right time and place to become very successful – see what you think by clicking here.
Constance in love
25th April 2022
One of our favourite illustrators is André Collot, and today we have added his drawings to accompany a 1946 French edition of D.H. Lawrence’s notorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover. They show Collot in sensitive, well-observing mode – 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.