What’s new
Garden of delights
28th October 2023
Eighteenth-century orgies today – Sigmund Freudenberger’s etchings for Nerciat’s scandalous Les Aphrodites, a fictional fantasy of frolicking French aristocrats and clergy. See them all now by clicking here.
Honestly erótico
27th October 2023
Today we bring you the bold, innovative work of the Brazilian artist Fábio Baroli, with his artistic responses to classical art and voyeuristic pornography. See his thought-provoking work now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Just fantasies?
20th October 2023
Today’s new artist is the intelligent and imaginative French cartoonist Saxkal, with his fantasies based on the hippie commune life and the experiences of a revolutionary prostitute. See some of his best work now by clicking here, and share Saxkal’s creative world.
Philosophical encounters
19th October 2023
A small dose of eighteenth century philosophy today, Claude Bornet’s five engravings for the first illustrated edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophie dans le Boudoir. Yes, they knew how to experiment sexually even in 1795! Click here now to see them.
A Parisian market place …
18th October 2023
A new portfolio by the great Alméry Lobel-Riche today – ‘Agora’ illustrates stories about the women of 1920s Montmartre in Paris, offering all they have in order to survive city life. See these atmospheric etchings now by clicking here.
The colours of desire
17th October 2023
Today’s new artist is Yana Ezar, whose trademark style of erotic painting is to fill her canvases, often large ones, with bold, colourful, yet carefully worked paint, mirroring the joyful energetic power of satisfying intimacy. See Yana’s work now by clicking here.
Fairy tales
16th October 2023
We’re delighted today to bring you the remarkable work of this year’s worthy winner of Erotic Arts London, the erotic fairies of the Sardinian artist Simone Pinna. See and be drawn into the fairy realm as you’ve never seen it before by clicking here.
Filthy lucre
13th October 2023
Today we have great pleasure in bringing you an honesterotica exclusive, the complete Marko Reynard collection of ‘Dirty Money’, a playful and talented artistic combination of those powerful twins, sex and money. See them all now by clicking here – and only at honesterotica, your daily fix!
Naked violence
5th October 2023
Nackte Gewalt – Naked Violence – is the theme of today’s new artist, the German painter Sigurd Wendland. That’s the external and internalised violence of political, economic and social struggle, and you can see his artistic response now by clicking here. Your thoughts?
Best of both worlds
3rd October 2023
An early example in literature of crossdressing, Histoire de Madame la Comtesse des Barres is an eighteenth-century autobiography tellingly illustrated by Georges Annenkoff in this 1945 edition. See all his drawings now by clicking here – remember that in art less is often more!
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.