What’s new
Baroque revelries
5th November 2021
A new portfolio today from the Serbian illustrator Milivoj Uzelac, his 1937 plates for Béroalde de Verville’s baroque, sometimes obscene, and almost unreadable Le moyen de parvenir. See the whole series now by clicking here. Enjoy!
Puppet, or sex doll?
4th November 2021
After a short break, today’s new artist is the brilliant French graphic novel creator Jean-Pierre Gibrat, with his imaginative 1995 erotic retelling of Collodi’s Pinocchio – but Pinocchia is female, beautiful, and loves taking her clothes off. See her now by clicking here.
Remembering Betty
30th October 2021
A year ago tomorrow the wonderful artist and sex educator Betty Dodson died. To mark the occasion her partner Carlin Ross has posted a YouTube interview with Betty here; As Carlin says, ‘Celebrate Betty’s life with a candle, champagne – and an orgasm’. See Betty's work by clicking here.
Life’s little desires
24th October 2021
Many of you will already know the work of Simon Frankart, the creator of Petites Luxures, with its 1.3m Instagram followers. Now you can find out more about Simon and his work, including all the drawings from Intimate Stories, by clicking here. Enjoy!
Wonderful flesh …
21st October 2021
Today the pioneering French artist and sculptor Aristide Maillol joins honesterotica, with his two best book illustration portfolios, Beautiful Flesh and Dialogue of the Courtesans. So simple, yet so erotic – see them all by clicking here.
Renaissance revelry and nunnery naughtiness
20th October 2021
A delightful and colourful new portfolio for you all today from the Croatian artist Milivoj Uzelac, his illustrations for a 1950 edition of Poggio Bracciolini’s ribald tales from the fifteenth century. Devious monks and naughty nuns abound! They can all be found here.
Creativity in a commercially-sexualised culture
19th October 2021
Today’s new artist, the Austrian Adolf Frohner, explored the creative boundary between advertising images, soft porn, and original art inspired by them, with fascinating results – see his work now by clicking here.
The ultimate orgy?
18th October 2021
A special collection of 1930s paintings today – all 80 watercolours from The Dresden Album, a unique insight into the sexual fantasies of the Weimar era. The mystery artist Izvrasaki certainly had a fertile imagination, and not a little artistic talent! See the whole portfolio now by clicking here.
The inimitable Sylvie
16th October 2021
Anyone who remembers the glory days of The Erotic Review in the late 1990s will recognise the unmistakable artwork of young Sylvie Jones, who quickly became a mainstay of the magazine and its related publications. See Sylvie’s work now by clicking here, and enjoy!
Scary or exciting?
15th October 2021
Today’s new artist is the German sculptor and printmaker Otto Paul Rost, with his 1925 portfolio of stark black and white images Lyzeum. If you didn’t know, you might think they were created in the 60s or 70s. See what you think – see them 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.