What’s new
Hooray, it’s Sin-day!
12th May 2021
If you like 1940s futuristic art, with plenty of bulging dynamic muscles and glistening buttocks, you’ll appreciate today’s new artist even though we don’t know who is behind the ‘Pinceau’ (Paintbrush) pseudonym. See Il Terzo Peccato (The Third Sin) now by clicking here.
You want some fantasy … ?
11th May 2021
Today’s new illustrator is the highly original Geneva-based artist Alain Babel, with his distinctive detailed pencil drawings featuring a lot of nudity but also cats, woodstoves, toilets and diving helmets. They’re worth spending some time with, and can all be seen here.
Young love à la Rojan
8th May 2021
A lovely new portfolio today from one of your all-time favourite artists, Rojan. His 1930-era young lovers are clearly enjoying getting to know each other intimately; is this what youthful sex should look like in a culture of shame-free sexual exploration? See the new images here.
One man’s fantasies!
3rd May 2021
An important new artist today, the Italian cartoonist and creator of fantasy images of the roaring 1920s and 30s Leone Frollo. See selections of his images from Bound to Please and The Women of Leone Frollo here. Enjoy!
The sex life of the Gods, updated
1st May 2021
You might think that Et Eros was a 1900s portfolio from Franz von Bayros, but it’s actually by Amadeus Dier, a brilliant 1920s Jugendstil take on the classic erotic portfolio, complete with erections and insertions. See Dier, today’s new artist, here.
Yet another mystery artist …
30th April 2021
Thaddeus of the Tight Balls (Taddeo de las Pelotas Tiesas) is today’s enigmatic new artist, with his 1925 portfolio Prince Eversharp, one of the bluntest phalli we have ever seen! But wit and graphic skill abound; enjoy these colourful prints here.
The pleasure of the terrible …
29th April 2021
Sometimes it can be the appalling amateurism of an artist that gives erotic imagery a welcome earthiness and brings a smile to our faces. So it is with today’s new artist, the mysterious 1920s Mitja Leytho, with his awful drawing and gaudy colours. See his attempts at art here.
O l’amour!
28th April 2021
Today’s new artist is the legendary cartoonist André Barbe, with his very French take on love and life and his trademark cinematographic transforming narratives. See a great cross-section of his imaginative work here. Enjoy!
Once upon a time …
27th April 2021
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog King, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White – but not the way we were told them as children! Today’s new artist is Rudolf Keller, with his imaginative 1919 portfolio of erotic fairy tales. See them now by going here. Enjoy!
Tales from Sodom
26th April 2021
If you like the idea of Bolloximion, king of Sodom, and Cuntigratia, his queen, you’ll probably enjoy the stylish illustrations of the Jugendstil artist Julius Klinger, almost unbelievably created in 1909. See his work now and be amazed!
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.