What’s new
Taking a position
6th October 2025
In 2003 The Erotic Print Society commissioned Lynn Paul Russell to produce a series of her trademark drawings for their Essential Kama Sutra. The result was some pretty believable people enjoying some pretty believable sex, and you can see them all by clicking here.
Positively Rabelaisian!
1st October 2025
Ever wondered what ‘Rabelaisian’ means? Jean Gradassi’s witty and colourful illustrations for François Rabelais’ tongue-in-cheek description of the celebrations in Rome for the birth of the French king’s son in 1549 show you precisely! See them all now by clicking here.
Fruity
29th September 2025
‘Are you an apple or a pear?’ There is no doubting which shape is Klaus Lelek’s favourite. In this simple tale of the evolving relationship between an artist and his perfect model, the pearwoman wins out every time. See her now by clicking here.
Am I okay?
27th September 2025
We live in an age of addiction to social media, scrolling through images in an endless quest for the ultimate version of ourselves. Welcome to the world of Joëlle Dubois, today’s exciting new artist. Naked but too often isolated, share Joëlle’s world by clicking here.
Underworldly
25th September 2025
Just six illustrations today, all that André Dignimont created for Francis Carco’s pioneering 1916 novel Les Innocents, about a small-time Parisian criminal. Secrecy, guilt, shame, poverty are his themes, brilliantly portrayed. See them now by clicking here.
Ich liebe dich
22nd September 2025
Today we bring you the erotic work of the Leipzig artist Max Schwimmer, including some of the most romantic, enchanting and sexy illustrated love letters you are ever likely to see. Our comprehensive collection of Schwimmer’s work can be found by clicking here.
Bottoms up
20th September 2025
Ten days ago we gave you an enormous portfolio of Lynn Paula Russell’s spanking drawings – you thought that was it? Think again! Our Painful Art collection, which you’ll find by clicking here, brings you another eighty drawings from Janus and Februs. That’s probably enough for now …
Life’s a beach
18th September 2025
The New York artist Reginald Marsh, working during the Great Depression, drew and painted the burlesque stage, crowds on city streets, the beach at Coney Island – and women. Lots of people, clothed but ideally unclothed. See a great selection of Marsh’s work now by clicking here.
Trans-gression
16th September 2025
Too often important erotic artwork disappears when online censorship kicks in on a popular platform, so today we bring back for you Bobby Luv’s Tumblr art on trans themes, both transsexual and transgressive. See a great selection of Bobby’s work now by clicking here.
Body language
12th September 2025
Today’s new artist is Chicago-based George C. Clark, with his paintings and ink drawings depicting the naked human body in physical tension – a stretch or a twist, expressive body language, a sexual movement. See a great collection of George’s work 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.