What’s new
Most revolting …
25th May 2022
Back to 1808 today with ‘the most monstrous and the most revolting that impiety, corruption and immorality have ever produced’. Anon’s illustrations to Évariste de Parny’s Battle of the Gods maybe seem a bit tame these days, but see what caused all the fuss now by clicking here.
A scary erotic wonderland
23rd May 2022
The French artist Patrick Jannin, with his disturbing images of creatures of startling beauty, women with animal heads, animals with dreamy bodies, goddesses straight out of ancient myths, is today’s new addition. See all his remarkable work now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Small wonders
21st May 2022
The erotic ex libris or bookplate has grown enormously in popularity, and today we bring you the remarkable work of the Ukrainian artist David Bekker, who died earlier this year. Imaginative, technically brilliant, you can see his miniature masterpieces now at by clicking here.
Oriental pleasures
17th May 2022
We can never have enough of Paul-Émile Bécat’s wonderful illustrations, and today we bring you his 1956 engravings for Fortunio, Théophile Gautier’s magical fantasia of the orient recreated in 1830s Paris. See them all now by clicking here.
Doodles at the end of the world?
13th May 2022
Most of us enjoy doodling on odd bits of paper, but today’s new artist takes the form to a new dimension. See Jonathan Guthmann’s hilarious phallic doodles, plus his remarkable Book of Revelations engravings, now by clicking here. Laugh and be in awe …
Stylish orientalism
12th May 2022
Today’s newcomer to @honesterotica is the Russian-French painter, graphic artist and sculptor Génia Minache, who came to book illustration relatively late in life. See her stylish paintings for the Kama Sutra, Omar Khayyám and more by clicking here.
New Apollonia!
11th May 2022
A treat for all Apollonia Saintclair lovers today – Volume 5 of Ink is My Blood is ready, and you can see a large selection from the collection by clicking here. As film director Anthony Byrne writes in the introduction, ‘Let her set you free’.
Are art and the erotic inseparable?
5th May 2022
At last – Picasso! Not just his erotic paintings, but the three amazing series of erotic etchings made in 1968 in his final fling of creativity when he was in his mid-80s. What an artist, what an impossible man, especially for women! See them all now by clicking here.
The source of life
4th May 2022
‘An artist of sensuality creating an authentic language – in his erotic cycle he reached the height of his talent’. That’s today’s new artist, the Cuban Servando Cabrera Moreno, with his intertwined naked bodyscapes. See them all now by clicking here, and be moved.
Thank you all!
2nd May 2022
Two landmarks for honesterotica in one weekend. Meeting some lovely people at Erotic Arts London – and reaching 10K, yes 10,000, Twitter followers. That’s you folks! Spread the word, let’s see how long it takes to reach 20K ?
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.