Bend it like Rika

27th July 2025

A Flemish artist living and working in the mountains of southern France, whose training and experience includes dance and theatre alongside sculpture, painting and life drawing – this is Rika Deryckere, whose sinuous figures move and bend, grasping, twisting, stretching. See her work now by clicking here.

Ethics alert

23rd July 2025

Doctor has sex with three women patients! Cause for an immediate internal enquiry, or the plot of a typical erotic mid‑century pulp paperback? See Schem’s 1946 illustrations for ‘Desire’ by clicking here, and imagine Dr Claude’s treatments for Kitty, Magoune and Elise.

Sinner or saint?

21st July 2025

That’s Raton, the heroine of today’s new portfolio, The Story of the Blessed Raton, with wonderfully detailed illustrations from 1931 by one of our favourite artists, Chas Laborde. Enjoy Raton’s journey from sex worker to sainthood now by clicking here.

In extremis

19th July 2025

We shall probably never know the true identity of Marquis, whose finely-detailed pencil drawings, mostly of naked men in a variety of BDSM settings, appeared on Tumblr in 2012, but you can see all of them now by clicking here.

Gay celebrations

8th July 2025

Today’s new artist, the Italian Marco Zagato, depicts the eroticism and spontaneous lustfulness of his characters in his own distinctive way of celebrating men’s beauty, desires and dreams. See Marco’s work now by clicking here.

Are we nearly there?

6th July 2025

It’s hard to believe that there is still more Bécat artwork out there to share, but there is. Today we bring you his 1950 illustrations for a five-volume luxury edition of the best-known works of Voltaire – fewer opportunities for naked flesh than usual, but every one taken! See them all now by clicking here.

Breaking free

4th July 2025

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Jan van Rijn, has now produced a new, more sumptuous, version of his Querida, the story of a woman who oscillates between her existence as a wooden marionette and as a human. See the new Querida portfolio now by clicking here.

Come up and see my etchings …

2nd July 2025

Today’s new artist, Martin Erich Philipp, produced an extensive portfolio of erotic bookplates and etchings, demonstrating his mastery of the medium and his fearlessness when it came to explicit imagery – not to mention his humour. See his work now by clicking here.

Très risqué …

22nd June 2025

The French artist Georges Mouton was known in polite circles for his portraits and scenes of Algerian life, but for select clients he produced watercolours and small cards with lots of sexual congress, plus voyeurism, spanking, group sex and orgies. See his work now by clicking here.

In the Time to Come

20th June 2025

Today’s new artist is American Mark Price, with his imaginative exploration of a brave new world of sex, gender and relationship fluidity, made possible through art in a way that isn’t quite so easy in real world interactions. See Mark’s work now by clicking here.