What’s new
Different universes
25th August 2023
What happens when a much-loved and seemingly asexual cartoon character like Tintin finds himself in an erotic world of scantily-clad women? Welcome to the work of Danish artist Ole Ahlberg, where fantasy and sensuous reality meet on the same canvas – click here to explore!
Original sins?
24th August 2023
If you thought same-sex liaisons, kink and a host of other sexual transgressions were a recent invention, think again! We bring you a hundred of the most explicit sex scenes ever drawn, for a 1797 edition of Sade’s infamous novel Justine. See them now by clicking here.
Queer as they come
16th August 2023
Exploring porn and queerness as a queer lesbian artist is both informative and fascinating, as can be seen in the work of today’s new artist, Kerstin Drechsel. See her thought-provoking paintings and dioramas now by clicking here, and have your imagination stimulated.
Sex and the spiritual-psychedelic
14th August 2023
With a million and a half Instagram followers, the Bay Area artist Alphachanneling is probably the best-known online erotic illustrator today, and we now have the pleasure of bringing you a great selection of his trademark colourful work – just click here. Enjoy!
Drawn to sex
12th August 2023
We have great pleasure today in bringing you a selection of the erotic drawings of one of our favourite artists, Anthony Christian, especially selected for us by Anthony. Enjoy his joyful intimacies and orgiastic encounters now by clicking here.
Genuine pleasures
7th August 2023
Today’s new artist, Frida Castelli, has an enormous online following, and you can see why – her intimate studies of lovers remind us all of the importance of authentic connection, including with our own sexual selves. See her inspirational work now by clicking here.
Come sit on me
6th August 2023
It’s always a pleasure to share a new portfolio by the great Paul-Émile Bécat, and today we bring you the strange tale of a knight turned into a sofa by a wicked fairy, and all the couplings he then witnesses. See Bécat’s trademark erotic etchings now by clicking here.
Pretty boys
5th August 2023
Today’s new artist is the South African born gay painter Philip Swarbrick, with his colourful and energetic images of young men engaging in a wide range of sexual pursuits both gentle and edging on the sadistic. See his work now by clicking here.
It takes all kinds
3rd August 2023
Home from our much-needed holidays, and today bringing you the work of the eclectic American artist Aarron Laidig. Colourful, imaginative, often psychedelic, see his paintings and drawings now by clicking here.
Freedom!
20th July 2023
Yay, we’re off on our holidays today, back at the beginning of August! In the meantime enjoy all 522 artists on the website, old favourites and new discoveries. Leaving you with some great artwork by Rojan, more from the same collection to be found 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.