What’s new
Brand spanking new
2nd October 2023
It’s always a pleasure to add a new spanking title by the master of the genre Louis Malteste, and today we bring you his best-known and most popular portfolio Qui Aime Bien (Who Likes It), which remarkably remained in print for more than half a century – see all of his flagellation scenarios now by clicking here.
O la la!
1st October 2023
Classics like Maupassant’s Bel Ami and Proust’s Un Amour de Swann as explicit erotic comics? Why not? That’s today’s new artist, Guillaume Berteloot, and you can see four of his complete stories by clicking here. It helps if you can read French, mais pas obligatoire!
The naughty bougre
28th September 2023
Back to the eighteenth century today, with two pioneering sets of erotic prints from the infamous banned novel Histoire de Dom B…, the monk who wanted everything and anything carnal. Both complete portfolios, from 1740 and 1748, can be seen now by clicking here.
Renaissance revisited
27th September 2023
Like the old masters today’s new artist Joanna Chrobak admires, the women in her paintings are thin, with small breasts and rounded bellies. Half-naked beauties, unicorns, exotic birds, fish and fruit, see them all now by clicking here.
Serpieri Xtreme
24th September 2023
Today we bring you the second instalment of Paolo Serpieri, a new collection of more than a hundred explicitly sexual images from the volume appropriately titled XXX. Is this mostly consensual, pleasurable fantasy, or does it too often cross the border into rape imagery? See it all now by clicking here.
Classic Druuna
23rd September 2023
A treat for all Paolo Serpieri Druuna fans today – more than a hundred new works culled from his previously unpublished material featuring his curvaceous Latin heroine and her friends. For some just too much, for others not enough! See them all now by clicking here.
Issues of consent
22nd September 2023
We recently added the Australian artist Norman Lindsay’s illustrations for The Cautious Amorist, and today complement them with his 1938 drawings for Age of Consent, about the complex relationship between a 40-year-old artist and his 17-year-old model. See them all now by clicking here.
Any time is the right time …
21st September 2023
Today we have pleasure in bringing you the earliest erotic portfolio yet to be added to the website, the sweet hand-coloured 1773 L’Année Galante. This month-by-month account of lovemaking reminds us that any season is the right time for hands-on intimacy – see all twelve images by clicking here.
Bodies
11th September 2023
The concept of ‘the erotic’ in art is sometimes hard to delineate; Richard Wallace’s paintings are almost never explicitly sexual, but what is nearly hidden can often be more sensually stimulating that that which is in full view. See his work now by clicking here.
French frolics
8th September 2023
With grateful thanks to one of our American contributors, we bring you all twenty of Claude Bornet’s very explicit 1803 engravings for Andrea Nerciat’s Devil in the Flesh – click here to see them. Yes, there was a great deal of sexual experimentation two centuries ago!
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.