What’s new
Our new 700 Artists Appeal
10th January 2026
It seems only yesterday that we were celebrating having reached 600 artists (it was actually just over a year ago), but here we are at 700 and counting! When we started this project seven years ago we could not have imagined that the world could possibly contain so much high-quality erotic artwork… read more
An added bonus (for those who haven’t discovered it yet!)
9th January 2026
We’ve realised recently that a lot of people are enjoying the website but missing out on one of its most useful and interesting features. Not only does every one of our 700 artists include a full biography with links to resources and websites as appropriate, but so does every portfolio.The… read more
Bodies of power
9th January 2026
Today’s new artist – the 700th on the site! – is the remarkable and openly bisexual Tamara de Lempicka, way ahead of her time with her languid, sculptural naked bodies, the artist who in the 1920s and 30s eroticised modern female sexuality. See her work now by clicking here.
The colour of gay
7th January 2026
The colourful pastels by Michael Breyette, today’s new artist, occupy a distinctive niche within contemporary gay figurative painting, bridging the personal and the universal through their unabashed celebration of the male body. Sadly we lost Michael to cancer just over a month ago, but you can see his art now by clicking here.
L’Enfer des Classiques
4th January 2026
A little amuse-bouche for you all today, a portfolio from the great André Collot illustrating a collection of classic French erotic texts, demonstrating his mastery of simple yet refined composition and colouring. See L’Enfer des Classiques now by clicking here.
Queer as it comes
2nd January 2026
For the first new artist of 2026 we bring you the work of New York master of queerotica Fyodor Pavlov. Drawing skilfully on the traditions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century erotic illustration, his experimental, playful, transgressive art is a joy to behold – see it now by clicking here.
Homo eroticus
31st December 2025
The work of today’s new artist, the last of the year, Cyril Georget’s art is unashamedly homoerotic. His work explores desire as a lived, quietly observed reality, the male body presented as vulnerable, sensual, and emotionally present. See his work now by clicking here.
Amour-propre?
28th December 2025
Some lovely 1920s French colour illustrations from today’s new artist, Jean-Paul Quint. They’re for an edition of Paul Verlaine’s poems about women, and tell their own story of intimacy gone slightly awry. See them all now by clicking here.
Nature-ism
26th December 2025
The soft curves and fleshy tones of Falk Gernegross’s bodies – he’s today’s new artist – fluctuate between realism and a cartoon-like style, strange yet familiar; timeless but also strongly contemporary; erotic and innocent. See Gernegross’s work now by clicking here.
Unbelievable?
24th December 2025
Today we bring you the artistic world of Rajah Foo, and his exploration of the strange sexualised borderlands of nature and desire. His muse is represented in dreamlike, surreal scenes populated by grotesque characters from the depths of his imagination. See his work now by clicking here, and make sure to explore his portfolios The Fabulous Art of Rajah Foo and Hôtel de la Providence.
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.