In the raw

7th November 2024

Real-world sex (just like real-world politics) is raw, messy, tender, exposed and chaotic, and today’s new artist, Dieter Rossi, captures all these qualities in his paintings – beautiful and horrific, gentle and harrowing. See Rossi’s powerful work now by clicking here.

Where praise is due

5th November 2024

Phalluses as noses, snakes, bulls and fruit stands, and transformed breasts and testicles as bunches of grapes – that’s the work of today’s new artist, the multi-talented Italian Piero Fornasetti. See his Elogium Mentulae (In Praise of the Penis) now by clicking here.

Pretty please!

4th November 2024

We’re three weeks into our 600 Artists appeal, and 27 of you have contributed, for which we are incredibly grateful. But that leaves 13,126 of you who haven’t yet, so come on folks, do it now! You’ll find full details at https://honesterotica.com/blog/honesterotica-600-artist-appeal-some-very-special-inducements. This is your chance to win a wonderful free erotic framed print! Please contribute whatever you can by PayPal @honesterotica …

Family challenges

30th October 2024

Motherhood, babies, children, families, gender power relationships – all grist to today’s new artist, the wonderful Swedish legend Lena Cronqvist. If erotic equates with raw, naked exploration, Cronqvist is a painter not to be missed. See her work now by clicking here.

Martin van Mäele rules!

28th October 2024

We’ve just added another four portfolios by the great Martin van Mäele to the website – Volées de bois vert, Les confessions de Miss Coote, Obscenia, and La comtesse au fouet (The Countess with the Whip). Take this opportunity to revisit van Mäele now by clicking here.

Hard Boys

25th October 2024

Today’s new artist, Californian Harry Bush, felt he had to live a double life – reclusive veteran to his family while brilliantly realising his gay fantasies on paper. A worthy match to Tom of Finland, you can see a great collection of Bush’s art now by clicking here.

Do we have to beg … ?

23rd October 2024

Very many thanks to the 21 donors who has so far given £185 for the 600 Artists appeal, but we really do need a lot more than that to keep everything afloat! Please donate whatever you can by PayPal at @honesterotica NOW. You know it makes sense and how much you value your favourite art website! Full details can be found on the honesterotica blog here.

All hands

23rd October 2024

Spanking art seems to be flavour of the month as we bring you a new portfolio by that master of the genre, Louis Malteste. Les mains chérie – Darling Hands – is his 1927 anthology of twelve first-hand ‘confessions’; you can see all his drawings for it by clicking here.

Holding the whip hand

22nd October 2024

Following the enigmatic Berlin artist Helga Bode a few days ago, we now bring you the almost equally impenetrable Richard Hegemann, with his 1920s drawings of whips and female domination. We’ve collected everything we can find attributed to him, which you can see by clicking here.

Skin in the game

20th October 2024

Today’s new artist is the groundbreaking American feminist painter Joan Semmel, who for more than half a century has been reclaiming a woman’s right to her own body and her own experience of sexuality. See a great selection of her important work now by clicking here.