‘Queerotica’ is a term which was coined around 1990 to encompass erotic art, literature and related material which depicts queer lives, bodies, desires and imaginations, informed by queer cultural, political and historical experience. While it can include explicit sexual content, queerotica is generally defined less by its degree of explicitness than by its perspective – it aims to represents eroticism as lived, fantasised, or contested outside heteronormative frameworks.

Unlike mainstream erotica which simply substitutes same-sex partners into conventional sexual scripts, queerotica rethinks desire itself. It features fluidity of gender, power, identity and attraction, exploring eroticism as relational, experimental, playful and transgressive. Queerotica frequently blurs boundaries between erotic art, pornography, autobiography and political expression.

Fyodor Pavlov covers all these bases and more with his trademark reworkings of styles from late Victorian to interwar kitsch. Here we have grouped examples of his work, so you can see classic reinterpretations of Latin aphorisms, erotic reworkings of Edwardian music score covers, pages from an imagined pictorial journal complete with ‘period’ texts, all the way to his stately gallery of curlicue-bordered phalli.