What’s new
Eroticism that relies on the interaction of black and white
17th June 2021
Loïc Dubigeon is widely regarded as one of the masters of erotic drawing of the second half of the twentieth century, and today we have added more than 100 new drawings from his Manuel de Civilité and Soumission. You can see all his powerful work here.
Going down – women’s underparts, soft bits, etc …
16th June 2021
Our friends at Talisman Gallery have found another collection of Lynn Paula Russell's original illustrations for Going Down, which we are delighted to share with you here. What a brilliant and honest illustrator she is!
What the butler saw …
15th June 2021
Good morning all! Back from our seaside holiday much refreshed and generally more optimistic. Today’s new portfolio is an early one from the ever-popular André Collot, his 1927 Les voyeurs, which you can see here. No doubting what was on his mind …
When knickers were new and exciting …
6th June 2021
Two lovely new Hérouard portfolios today for all you lovers of vintage frilly knickers – Their Knickers: How They Wear Them from 1923, and The Jewel Case from 1939. My goodness, Hérouard knew how to tantalise his audience! See them now here.
Safe from the storm?
4th June 2021
A cautionary tale today from Otto Schatz, a dark visual narrative from post-war Vienna mirroring the unsure security of the time as well as some very non-consensual sex. See it here, and be suitably shocked.
A thank you present?
2nd June 2021
A lovely new Otto Schatz portfolio today, Das Besuch (The Visit), probably a 1946 commission from a Russian officer after Schatz’s release from internment camp. Enjoy all the drawings in the series here.
Beastly – or Beautiful?
31st May 2021
Happy summer’s day everyone. We’ve just added the complete set of illustrations for Nicole Claveloux’s wonderful adult reworking of Beauty and the Beast – what an incredible artist. See them all now here. Be excited and inspired!
A mystery portfolio of colourful intimacy
28th May 2021
After yesterday’s images of youthful intimacy from Robert Auer, today we have a 1915 portfolio with a similar style – but with Zichy signatures. Yet Zichy was long dead, and they are clearly not by him. A pastiche, a fraud? See Souvenir de Jeunesse 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.