What’s new
Vive l’érotisme!
14th April 2022
A too-little-known Frenchwoman, Henriette Bellair, is today’s new artist. In the 1940s and 50s she illustrated several of the best-known erotic classics; you can see her accomplished work now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Imaginative edginess
13th April 2022
Today’s new artist features the powerful, experimental and often transgressive work of the Paris-based artist Eric Ecrement, better known to his online following as Rajah Foo. Prepare to be excited, and possibly disturbed, as you visit his work by clicking here.
A rare honesterotica presentation!
12th April 2022
For anyone planning to visit Erotic Arts London at the end of this month, honesterotica's Saturday 30th April presentation at 12 noon is ‘The Importance of Transgressive Art: testing the erotic limits of human experience and sensual self-knowledge’. Hope to see some of you there! For more details and booking, click here.
American erotica sardonica
11th April 2022
Today’s new artist is the American Mahlon Blaine, who the writer Gershon Legman called ‘the only American artist to produce an important erotic album’. He was referring to Blaine’s remarkable 1929 Venus Sardonica, which you can see with more of his work by clicking here.
Naked women fighting!
10th April 2022
A century ahead of his time, the French painter, engraver and caricaturist Jean Veber had the talent, the imagination and the courage to depict erotic subjects that others only imagined or kept to themselves – today’s new artist, see his work now by clicking here.
A little French undressing
9th April 2022
A small but perfectly formed 1945 portfolio for you today from today’s new artist, the French painter Daniel Rouvière. Just a pity he didn’t do more in the same vein. See it now by clicking here.
Druuna ahoy!
7th April 2022
Another master of Italian comic-book art for you all today, with a comprehensive look at Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri’s perfect-woman SF fantasy creation Druuna. See her now in every (im)possible situation and from every possible angle by clicking here.
Holy shit!
1st April 2022
Today we bring you the social satire, cultural commentary and black humour of Berlin-based Reinhard Scheibner, exploring the depths of humanity to its taboo and darkly comic extremes. You have been warned! It’s all to be found by clicking here. Enjoy!
Carnal pleasures
30th March 2022
Another nineteenth-century celebration of sex for you all today – The Ecstasies of Love from around 1830. Whoever made these lively, colourful prints seems to have had a very good idea of the range of delights of the flesh, Yes, nearly two centuries ago! See them all now by clicking here.
Twitter at it again (yawn)
29th March 2022
You’ve probably noticed that the honesterotica Twitter account has been suspended (again), and we’ve appealed (again). Their explanation is that our header images ‘Violate our rules against graphic violence or adult content in profile images’. Go figure. Leonor Fini (who created Rosie’s portrait) would be turning in her grave.
We hope we’ll be back twittering shortly, but in the meantime you can always find out what’s new on the site by coming here regularly! Thanks for your loyalty and patience …
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.