What’s new
The ultimate fetishist?
24th March 2022
It’s not often that an erotic artist is prepared to take his passions to the extreme in both art and life, but that’s what today’s new website entry, cross-dressing performance artist Pierre Molinier, achieved. Meet this iconoclast and his work now by clicking here.
Birthday Blog Part 2
17th March 2022
Here is the second instalment of contributions to our request to our followers to let us know what sort of erotic art works best for them. Another thoughtful and illuminating set of responses, including two contributors who, as artists themselves, recognise that much inspiration can be gained from… read moreFree love 1950s style
17th March 2022
Paul Verlaine’s sexy poem cycle Oeuvres Libres has been illustrated many times – today we have a new portfolio from around 1950 by the prolific artist Anon, and quite a good Anon in this case! See this explicit portfolio now by clicking here (and enjoy the sonnet!).
A hippy ahead of his time
16th March 2022
Today’s new artist is the early twentieth century German Hugo Höppener, better known as Fidus (The Faithful One), with his optimistic free-thinking view of the erotic links between the naked body and the elements of nature. Naive or visionary? You decide – see his work now by clicking here.
The complex simplicity of erotic art
15th March 2022
A highly original and fascinating new artist for you today from honesterotica, the inventive Polish painter Jan Dobkowski. As well as his trademark red-and-green paintings, we have a wonderful selection of his erotic drawings and other work – all by clicking here.
Birthday Blog Part 1
11th March 2022
Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday dear honesterotica, happy birthday to us!To celebrate our first five years we asked you, our wonderful followers and visitors, to tell us something about what sort of erotic art and illustrations works best for you, and why it is… read more
Sacred and profane
10th March 2022
A wonderful and highly original artist for you today, introducing the colourful wit and imagination of the French artist Clovis Trouille. As well as creating the perfect bottom for Oh Calcutta, the variety of his work will astonish you! See it all now by clicking here.
Get thee to a nunnery
8th March 2022
A young girl forced into a nunnery against her will, then shamed and abused – that’s Diderot’s La Religieuse, illustrated in 1916 by one of our favourite artists, Martin van Maële, and newly added today. See the whole portfolio now by clicking here.
Ménage à trois
6th March 2022
The talented and stylish Jean-Gabriel Daragnès is one of our all-time favourite illustrators, and today we are delighted to bring you what is considered his best work, the plates for the classic threesome romp Gamiani by Alfred de Musset. See them all now by clicking here.
Stages of love …
5th March 2022
A relatively minor but nonetheless interesting new artist for you today, the French illustrator Georges Conrad, with drawings from his sketchbook and the 1935 plates for his only explicitly erotic commission, My Stages of Love. See his work now by clicking here.