What’s new
Relating in the raw
27th January 2024
Nazanin Pouyandeh’s characters in her paintings and drawings, most of them naked, tell wonderful and complex stories about relationship, power, desire, fear and death. What a compelling imagination! See a great collection of her work now by clicking here.
Imagination unlimited
25th January 2024
‘I find nothing fantastic in so-called fantastic art,’ Thomas Häfner wrote of his work. ‘It is an aspect of reality in search of sanity beyond the normal bounds.’ See Häfner’s thought-provoking, often erotically-charged, work now by clicking here.
Small is beautiful
23rd January 2024
Back to the miniature world of bookplates with today’s new artist, the Slovak erotic ex libris maestro Peter Kocák. See an inspiring collection of his work now by clicking here.
Boob tubes
19th January 2024
Erotic art doesn’t come much kinkier and weirder than today’s new portfolio, an amateur breast fantasy from the 1950s. You thought you knew what boob tubes are? Think again. Click here for the correct answer!
Japanese bizarre
17th January 2024
To Japan for today’s new artist, Takato Yamamoto, and his surrealistic and highly detailed works exploring themes of violence, death and sexuality to create unsettling and highly symbolic imagery. See a wide-ranging selection of his trademark art now by clicking here.
Naked beauty
12th January 2024
Today’s new artist is the Armenian-born, French-nationalised Jean Jansem, with his beautiful and sensitively-observed studies of the naked body – airy, transparent, luminous. What a talent! See more than a hundred of his works now by clicking here.
Miniature masterpieces
8th January 2024
Today’s new artist is another master of that remarkable miniature art form, the ex libris or bookplate. Lithuanian engraver Marius Liugaila incorporated more detail in 33 square centimetres than many artists can in a large canvas. See his work now by clicking here.
Tasteful titillation
4th January 2024
Today’s new artist is the very tasteful French postwar illustrator Paul Derambure, with his portfolios for Ovid and for the scandalous 17th century Romantic History of the Gauls. Just enough titillation to count as erotic, see Derambure’s work now by clicking here.
Looking forward
3rd January 2024
A very happy new year to all our wonderful followers, still here despite all efforts to kill Twitter/X 😘 Lots of new artists and artworks to come in 2024; seems to be no shortage of material out there, much discovered with the help of our inquisitive and sharp-eyed friends! Keep up the good work …
An eye for detail
29th December 2023
The imaginative eighteenth century French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu was way ahead of his time with his fantasy buildings – and with his fascination with sexual anatomy. You can see and be inspired by all his previously ‘forbidden’ 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.