Behind closed shutters

12th May 2023

We’re back, with lots of new artwork to share in the coming months! We start with Volets clos (Closed Shutters), a remarkable anonymous French portfolio of explicit etchings from 1933. You thought kink was a recent invention? Think again. See them all by clicking here.

A short intermission …

19th April 2023

Letting you know that Rosie and #honesterotica are taking a well-earned three week break, as we’re welcoming an old flame from the US of A to Britain for her very first visit to our lovely country (and she’s no spring chicken!). We’ll be back mid-May with some great new artists …

Missing pussy …

18th April 2023

What does a poet do when called up for war and madly missing his new lover? If it’s Guillaume Apollinaire, you write passionate sexy poems to the object of your obsession, and half a century later have them illustrated by a great artist who understands – see this new Vertès portfolio now by clicking here.

The pleasures of submission

16th April 2023

A new portfolio today from Fernand Dantan, disguised as ‘F. Dannat’, for Thérèse, a 1963 first-person submission narrative by the French libertine feminist novelist Régine Desforges, also under a pseudonym. Yes, (relatively) consensual BDSM was alive even then – see his drawings now by clicking here.

Love letters

14th April 2023

Today’s new artist is the Romanian Marcel Chirnoagă, with his powerful etchings ‘Erotic Mythology’. As he said of his work, art should be like a love letter, seductive and convincing. Judge for yourself by clicking here.

Bawdy stories

11th April 2023

Dino Attanasio is one of the great Italian-Belgian cartoonists, and today we bring you his only (and very successful) risqué work, an interpretation of seven of Boccaccio’s most bawdy tales from the Decameron. See and savour them now by clicking here.

Cocksure

9th April 2023

By chance – or fate – today’s new artist also specialised in tarot decks. We bring you Amerigo Folchi’s Gardens of Priapus cards, all 78 of them; amazing what you can do with wands and cups! See them all now by clicking here.

Fata symbolica

8th April 2023

Good morning tarot lovers – today we bring you René Marcel Rivière’s 2010 Erotic Tarot, full of metaphysical symbolism (and a little nudity). All on the cards now – click here to see them.

Calling all exhibitionists

7th April 2023

Diary time ... Erotic Arts London 2023 is happening, and if you're anywhere near London, September 7–10th, you need to be there. If you’re an artist, you need to be there even more! Honesterotica will be back with great presentations. Find more information, including how to enter your own artwork, by clicking here.

All the positions

6th April 2023

The Cuban artist Carlos Enríquez visited Europe several times in the late 1920s, where he came across Aretino’s ‘sex manual’ Sonetti Lussuriosi. Rather into sex himself, Enríquez produced his own set of drawings to accompany them, which you can see now by clicking here.