What’s new
Brand spanking new
10th September 2025
For some time we’ve been planning to add the spanking drawings of one of our most visited artists, Lynn Paula Russell, and now you can see all 150 from the 2004 collection Painful Pleasures. If this is your kind of pleasure, click here now!
The real crown jewels
3rd September 2025
Denis Diderot’s 1748 novel Les Bijoux Indiscrets explains exactly where women keep their most precious jewels, and Paul-Émile Bécat’s 1939 delicately coloured illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to this satirical tale. See all the artwork from the book now by clicking here.
Sweetiepie
1st September 2025
A real treat today, Alex Szekely’s 1935 album of drawings telling of an unexpected but delicious encounter with a young women who is more than willing to explore the depths of shared intimacy. Important drawings from one of our favourite artists – see them all now by clicking here.
Mon dieu!
30th August 2025
Today’s new artist is one of the masters of the erotic French bande dessinée – the remarkable Bernard Dufossé, better known in this guise as Hanz Kovacq. By clicking here you can see complete opening stories from the ‘Hilda’ and ‘Diane’ series. Prepare to be shocked!
Small is beautiful
27th August 2025
Today’s new portfolio is by that prolific artist Anon, a collection of Swiss erotic miniatures painted in gouache on ivory in around 1800. Each of these tiny paintings is just 5cm in diameter, but the level of explicit detail is remarkable. See them all now by clicking here.
L’amour des femmes
25th August 2025
Paul Verlaine’s Chansons pour Elle and Odes en son Honneur are among his most explicit poems about women, and Paul-Émile Becat’s 1954 illustrations to accompany them are the most accomplished of his later work. We have just added this important portfolio, and you can see them all now by clicking here.
French frolics
20th August 2025
A new portfolio today from Henriette Bellair, a woman whose erotic illustrations adorned several risqué classics in mid-century. These are for Nerciat’s Félicia, the eponymous heroine being a libertine young woman who is primarily focused on pleasure. See the whole portfolio now by clicking here.
Player men
13th August 2025
Today’s new artist is Stephen Player, best known for his fantasy illustrations including his version of the Discworld map, but he is also a brilliant, imaginative and versatile creator of homoerotic art. See a great collection of his Playermen now by clicking here.
Alles verboten!
11th August 2025
An honesterotica exclusive! Presenting, here only, Klaus Lelek’s latest graphic novel about a trio of naturist swingers navigating one of the German countryside’s only remaining nudist lakes, only to find that almost everything is forbidden. See A Lake with Deep Abysses and Wetlands now by clicking here.
From Russia with love
9th August 2025
Who would think that life in Russia would involve so much colourful naked enjoyment? Welcome to today’s new artist, Vera Donskaya-Khilko from St Petersburg, with wrestling, coupling, parties, and cosy wintertime bathhouse evenings. See Vera’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.