What’s new
The dark side
5th June 2023
Today’s new artist is the Mexican-born, Barcelona-based Gino Rubert, with his trademark collage paintings and drawings exploring the deeper aspects of human relationships. Erotic yes, but also disturbing and thought-provoking. See his work now by clicking here.
Brand spanking new
3rd June 2023
Art as therapy is maybe one interpretation of the naïve spanking drawings of today’s new artist, identified only as a German woman called Alina. What are the stories behind her colourful scenarios? See Alina’s work now by clicking here.
Honesterotica and the fair use of images
29th May 2023
As anyone who visits this site regularly will know, the amount of material we have brought together over the years is pretty phenomenal – more than 700 artists, well, over 2,000 portfolios, and more than 100,000 images. We put a lot of effort into ensuring that our images are the best possible… read more
In the raw
26th May 2023
The particular talent of today’s new artist, Hanjo Schmidt, is his portrayal of real people – like us – being intimate. All our engagement, all our imperfections, caught on his large canvases. See his work now by clicking here. What do you think, honestly?
Purple fantasies
22nd May 2023
Today’s new artist is the dark, enigmatic Charles Swann, a pseudonym for a purveyor of eroticism whose work nearly disappeared when Tumblr said ‘non’ to all NSFW imagery. But powerful and imaginative art never dies, and you can see Swann’s way now by clicking here.
Full of promise
21st May 2023
An intimate 1902 encounter with a very pregnant young woman is the basis for today’s new portfolio – Anna, the Pregnant Sweetheart, by the unexpectedly talented small-town Austrian writer and artist Franz Hirmann. See his whole story now by clicking here.
Getting closer
20th May 2023
Beautiful, colourful, rich, erotic – all describe the ‘closer’ paintings of today’s new artist, the South African-born, Amsterdam-based Ina van Zyl, who shows us her world, including the bits generally considered sexual but in her art something more – see her work now by clicking here.
500 artists! Tell us your favourites …
19th May 2023
The addition of Eric Fischl’s work brings us to a new milestone in honesterotica’s evolution – there are now five hundred artists on the website! Still lots more to come of course, but it’s definitely an achievement worth celebrating.Conceived just six years ago, honesterotica has become the… read 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.