What’s new
Miniature mistresspieces
16th December 2022
Small is sometimes very beautiful! The exquisite enamels of British artist Geraldine Swayne capture the essence of sensuality and risqué pleasure in suggestive minimalism. See her work now by clicking here – and imagine!
Heaven or hell?
12th December 2022
Today we give you a rare opportunity to imagine the western tradition of erotic art seen through the lens of a skilled Chinese artist. In Eden, Li Xiaoxuan offers a vision of paradise in which Eve’s naked beauty is ignored by a materialist world – see the whole portfolio by clicking here.
Song of Songs
9th December 2022
A new portfolio today from one of our all-time favourite artists, the master engraver Alméry Lobel-Riche – it’s his 1947 plates for the biblical Song of Songs. Classic Lobel-Riche. See them now by clicking here, and join in the song of love!
Women are powerful, and a bit scary!
8th December 2022
Compared with the amount of in-your-face art featuring rampant male genitalia, depictions of the female equivalent are rare. In Caroline Sury’s hand, though, pen and ink offer a powerful collection of women taking delight in showing us everything they have down below. See her work now by clicking here.
A mystery solved
7th December 2022
So it turns out that the enigmatic ‘Maurice Charroux’, who illustrated a series of erotic texts in the 1960s, was actually the well-known Dutch comic artist Georges Mazure, operating under a pseudonym, and you can see his work now by clicking here. Many thanks to one of our wonderful followers for spotting the connection!
Explicit education
1st December 2022
Sometimes it’s a pleasure to find a new portfolio from one of our all-time favourite illustrators; this morning it’s a 1934 collection by the prolific Luc Lafnet for Histoires Raides – ‘Robust Tales for Young Girls’. See it now by clicking here, and be educated!
Style and sensuality
30th November 2022
We have great pleasure in bringing you no fewer than four erotic portfolios by the talented Russian-born artist Vania Zouravliov, including his illustrations for the classics Gamiani and Eveline. Much wonderful work to see, all available now by clicking here.
Etched on the imagination
29th November 2022
Today’s new artist is the Czech designer of banknotes, stamps, and some brilliant erotica – Oldřich Kulhánek. One of the master engravers of recent decades, see his work now by clicking here.
Rich fantasy worlds
27th November 2022
Eroticism, history, current affairs, mythology and dreams create a rich mixture in the work of today’s new artist, the young and vibrant Manhattan-based Sara Jackson. Full of life and potent symbolism (not to mention penises), see her work now 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.