What’s new
Sex everywhere!
19th July 2023
A remarkable new artist for you today, the Russian Wilhelm Shenrok, who has the skill, talent and wit to combine the clearly recognisable characters of mainstream art with an original and explicit sexual theme. See his wonderful paintings and drawings by clicking here.
Magical mystery tour
17th July 2023
Another ‘fusion’ artist for you all today, the Brazilian painter and engraver Octávio Ferreira de Araújo with his magical works inspired by European masters and Russian and Greek mysticism. A rich selection of his work can be explored by clicking here. Take your time with them!
An unlikely fusion
16th July 2023
An uncommon yet fertile erotic offering today from a Cuban artist who has worked in Japan for more than two decades, the skilled and imaginative Ernesto Ferriol. Meet the muse, the monster, and the Japanese deity in his work by clicking here.
Whose tango?
14th July 2023
What most people now remember about the controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris is the butter-assisted anal rape scene, which a young Maria Schneider asserted was an unscripted and non-consensual sexual violation, but Betty Dodson picked up on Schneider’s earlier assertion that the film was really about the homoerotic relationship between Bertolucci and Brando. See her take now by clicking here.
The real deal
13th July 2023
Here’s a veritable trove of wonderful erotic drawings from today’s new artist, the Italian Salvatore Bruno. As he writes of his work, ‘Honest art arises from one’s own visual experiences, conscience, and knowledge of one’s own and others’ bodies.’ See him now by clicking here.
Imagine
9th July 2023
Naked selfies, great date sex, post-apocalypse life and love, bathtub pleasures – all are part of the talented and imaginative repertoire of today’s new artist, Los Angeles-based Frances Waite. See Frances’s work now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Hard feelings
3rd July 2023
Naked bodies and raw emotions – these are the themes of today’s new artist, Brooklyn-based Heather Benjamin. Her clearly autobiographical works succeed in encouraging us to question what being a woman in the art world today is all about. See her work now by clicking here.
Ink is still my blood …
2nd July 2023
One of our most visited artists is the remarkable Apollonia Saintclair, and today we bring you her latest volume of Ink is My Blood, the sixth and last collection of her thought-provoking drawings. See them now by clicking here. Where will she take us next?
Ich bin ein Berliner …
30th June 2023
Today’s new artist is the too-little-known Berlin painter Richard Wittmann, documenting the dalliances of his fellow citizens in the 1910s and 20s. Enjoy the exuberant colour and life in his works 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.