What’s new
Truly marvellous
21st January 2025
If you don’t already know the work of the amazing Leonor Fini, now is the time to immerse yourself in Les merveilles de la nature (The Marvels of Nature), sensuous drawings made in her late fifties after a tempestuous affair with a married man. We’ve just added the whole portfolio, which you can see now by clicking here.
BBW
19th January 2025
Big. Beautiful. Wanting … this is Emma, the insatiable and worldly-wise new bride at the centre of Klaus Lelek’s dark new erotic comic. Will any of the men in her life be able to satisfy her? Find out in Cuck’s Hot Wedding Night by clicking here.
In good taste
17th January 2025
Today’s new artist is René Lelong, a French illustrator working mostly during the 1920s, his detailed miniatures capturing acceptable titillation rather than rampant romps. See his skilled and tasteful work now by clicking here.
Give it to me
15th January 2025
Today’s new artist is the prolific Barcelona-based but Argentinian-born Tomás Müller, whose trademark tactile skin tones and shiny white highlighting bring the physicality of sexual encounter very much to life. See a great selection of Tomás’s work now by clicking here.
By the book
12th January 2025
Ex Libris, specially commissioned bookplates, have made a comeback in recent decades, and many of them have a distinctly erotic flavour. One of the world’s most talented exponents of the art is the Flemish artist Frank-Ivo van Damme, and you can now see a great collection of his work by clicking here.
Gay’s the word
8th January 2025
The full-on imagination of a gay artist doesn’t come much more full-on than that of today’s new artist, Canadian multimedia creator Doug Melnyk. See a comprehensive collection of his witty, thought-provoking, eclectic work now by clicking here.
Transgressions
6th January 2025
Georges Bataille’s erotic novella Histoire de l’oeil describes the sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. Today’s new artist, Nikolaus List, is just one of many artists commissioned to illustrate The Story of the Eye – see his interpretations by clicking here.
Chinese whispers
4th January 2025
Yes, they have sex in China too, as documented by our first new artist of 2025, Beijing-based Shen Ling. She documents intimate domestic moments in her trademark colourful style – see a selection of her paintings now by clicking here.
Future perfect?
30th December 2024
For Christmas we gave you Erich von Götha’s Troubles of Janice, and for new year we’re adding all four parts of his futuristic fantasy romp Twenty, set in a world where sexual repression has been abolished and exploration actively encouraged. Lots of naked bodies and experimentations to be seen 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.