What’s new
Unflinching
9th January 2022
An original and exciting new artist for you today, the bold and courageous Kitty Brophy, with her midnight black, blinding white and blood red drawings of naked fully-sexed bodies, confident and empowered. See her work now by clicking here – and feel the force!
A scandal in Berlin
7th January 2022
Today’s new artist is Charlotte Berend, who in 1919 created a daring portfolio of drawings, which was immediately censored, of the sensational exotic dancer Anita Berber. Now you can see them all by clicking here, and imagine the scandal they (and Anita Berber) created.
Ah Denisse!
6th January 2022
Get ready to have your concept of the erotic stretched to the limit with today’s new artist, the Mexican cartoonist and illustrator Héctor Stanisłao de la Garza Batorski, better known as Eko. Join the beautiful Denisse in her wild adventures by clicking here. Enjoy!
What makes art erotic – for you?
4th January 2022
Honesterotica will shortly be coming up for our fifth birthday, and we’ve come a long way in that time.We started with just 80 artists; now we have over 340. We started with zero Twitter followers; now we’re well on the way to 10,000. At the beginning we were lucky to have twenty visitors to the… read more
The nature of sex
1st January 2022
The first new artist for a new year is Gérard Gachet – skulls, bones, rocks, shells and reptiles haunt many of his drawings alongside women’s breasts, buttocks and vulvas, the source of life and a subject he found eternally fascinating. See his work now by clicking here.
Black and white humour
30th December 2021
As far as we know the only erotic prints made by the Austrian artist Axl Leskoschek were found in his studio after his death, but his Scherze (Witticisms) are brilliant and imaginative, well worth spending time with – see them now by clicking here.
Beyond taboo …
28th December 2021
An exciting and provocative new artist today; as critic Bruno Richard writes, ‘with Anne van der Linden there is always a sense of horror, but there is also love everywhere, even in the horror’. Love or hate her work, you can’t ignore it – see it now by clicking here.
Ceytaire certainement!
26th December 2021
Today we are pleased to share with you all the colourful, imaginative, thought-provoking world of the Parisian artist Jean-Pierre Ceytaire. If you thought you’d seen every aspect of erotic art the world has to offer, think again! See his work now by clicking here.
Inspiring flights of erotic imagination
23rd December 2021
A very special treat for you all today, the best collection of the works of the Austrian artist Fritz Aigner that you will find anywhere. A consummate technician with a brilliant imagination, see him by clicking here, and be amazed.
Endless pleasure
21st December 2021
The German artist Fritz Janowski is today’s new artist at honesterotica, with his 1919 portfolio Stunden der Liebe – Hours of Love. Typical of the era, but sweet and accomplished nonetheless. See it 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.