What’s new
Yes please!
20th March 2025
Nobody knew about New York artist Robert Slater’s wonderful portfolio of gently erotic paintings until they were rediscovered twenty years after he’d died, but you can see them all now by clicking here.
In your dreams
18th March 2025
In the artistic universe of today’s new artist, Canadian Ambera Wellmann, intimacy is sometimes tender and unambiguous, at others strange, unsettling and violent. See her dreamy, fleshly, intertwined bodies now by clicking here.
Swiss rolls!
16th March 2025
Hans Schärer’s watercolours are carnivalesque scenes in which bodies lustfully cavort. In a garden of earthly delights, sensual women take pleasure from diminutive male figures with phallic red noses. See the work of this imaginative Swiss artist now by clicking here.
Pure innocence?
12th March 2025
Whether he was actively gay or bisexual we will never know, but today’s new artist, Ludwig von Hofmann, certainly got a kick out of painting nubile naked bodies, most often boys, eternally young, beautiful and innocent. See a great selection of his work by clicking here.
Like it is
10th March 2025
‘A female vagina or a male penis is just as much an essential part of a body as an ear, a nose, a hand or a foot. Why can’t it be represented in the same way?’ This is Svetlana Sokolovskaya, today’s remarkable new artist, and you can see her work now by clicking here.
So many ways …
7th March 2025
A couple of weeks ago we shared a massive collection of erotic bookplates by Mark Severin, and now we have added the complete set of Kama Sutra drawings that he was working on shortly before his death. See his interpretations of the famous ‘positions’ by clicking here.
Weird or what?
5th March 2025
Grotesque images inspired by her obsessions with human biology, dreams, nature and transgression – that’s today’s new artist, Céline Guichard, and her collection of naked, twisted, hairy, androgynous figures, which you can see now by clicking here. Prepare to be amazed!
Hot and steamy
3rd March 2025
The great Paul-Émile Bécat again today, his 1953 illustrations for the racy novel Les nuits chaudes du Cap Français (The Hot Nights of the French Cape). We now have more than half of Bécat’s remarkable 93 works on the website! See his hot nights now by clicking here.
By the book
1st March 2025
Yes, it’s erotic bookplates again! This time from today’s new artist, the talented and imaginative German engraver Olaf Gropp. See a great selection of his work now by clicking here.
It’s complicated …
23rd February 2025
A veritable trove of original and thought-provoking artwork for you all today from the German artist Thomas Gatzemeier. See his paintings, drawings, and mixed media offerings 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.