What’s new
Screen shots
19th April 2024
Have you ever thought of recording your favourite x-rated screenshot captures as lovingly detailed pencil drawings? If so you’ll love those of today’s new artist, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, with his ongoing Webcam series. See them now in all their detail by clicking here.
Relating with feeling
16th April 2024
Today’s new artist in the Dutch painter Annika Lochtman, with her colourful canvases on the themes of childhood, motherhood and sex – seemingly free and simple but also expressing deep feeling. See a great selection of her work now by clicking here.
An alternative revolution
12th April 2024
Despite what Cuban history says about its military heroes, today’s new artist Ariel Cabrera Montejo shows them as human beings with sensual desires. Using the language and techniques of impressionism, he creates colourful new erotic works; see them now by clicking here.
The weirdnesses of sex
8th April 2024
Today’s new artist is the Canadian Claire Milbrath, whose brightly coloured faux-naïf paintings explore the world of contemporary dating and sexuality with a unique blend of observation and humour. Enjoy Claire’s work now by clicking here.
The bigger the better
3rd April 2024
Today’s new artist, Klaus Lelek, has two passions – large naked women and great stories for them to participate in. Plus a wonderfully idiosyncratic way with words! See no fewer than eight of his highly distinctive erotic tales now by clicking here.
Fin de siècle style
1st April 2024
The prolific French lithographer, engraver and illustrator Léon Lebègue was not particularly known for edgy erotica, but was not averse to a little nudity if that was what was wanted. See his stylish work now by clicking here.
Back in the USSR
30th March 2024
Apparently ‘there was no sex in the USSR’, but after glasnost there was an outpouring of sexual energy, most often by men. Alevtina Pyzhova was the exception, representing a channel of the repressed sexual energy of Soviet women. See her work now by clicking here.
Demimondaines
28th March 2024
There’s a bar down by the harbour, where Juju, Fanfan, Violette and Framboise hang out with their friends – this is the chosen setting for Sylvain Lainé’s erotic world of scantily-dressed women and their imagined lives. Join today’s new artist now by clicking here.
The naked truth
23rd March 2024
Lilly Hill paints large naked women based on her own body. Her style is reminiscent of Renaissance art, but her subject matter is the relationship between physicality and sexuality, honesty and acceptance, power and presence. See her work now by clicking here.
Earthly and heavenly desire
21st March 2024
Erotic art which captures the relationship of human desire with the energies of the natural and spiritual worlds – that’s the aim of today’s new artist, Alexandra von Hellberg. Joyful sex along with birds, sea creatures and angels! See her 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.