The colours of desire

15th January 2023

What a treat for you all today – nearly two hundred paintings by the remarkable contemporary Chinese artist Deng Jianjin, exploring the depths and varieties of erotic fantasy. Spend time with each canvas, the effort is well worth it. Deng’s artworks can be found here.

My muse

12th January 2023

Milo Manara is probably our favourite erotic cartoonist, and today we bring you some of his best mature work, his 2001 tribute, The Model. How cleverly he imitates the style of the great artists! See them all now by clicking here.

Space age heroine

11th January 2023

Hands up if you remember Jane Fonda in the 1967 movie Barbarella. Not so many of us now, but Jean-Claude Forest’s sexy heroine was dynamite at the time, an emancipated woman who loved sex, even with robots. See Barbarella – and the darker Louise Rose – now by clicking here.

Mansex

8th January 2023

Time for some male gay sex today, with the Italian artist Lorenzo Ridolfi. A distinctive style, a rather single-minded concentration on idealised intimacy, but very popular in the appropriate circles! See his work now by clicking here.

Help needed with Federico Righi …

7th January 2023

We’re looking for help again ... We’d like to add the Italian artist Federico Righi’s wonderful 1970 portfolio, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, but don’t have a complete set of the 27 prints. Can any of you wonderful followers help? Please email us if you have any leads – info@honesterotica.com.

The case of the disappearing illustrator

7th January 2023

Who was Renée Ringel, illustrator of two dozen books in the 1940s and 50s? We have found nothing at all about this mystery woman, but today bring you four of her sweet, gently titillating portfolios, all to be seen by clicking here. Can you help solve the enigma?

This strange thing called sex

3rd January 2023

The first new artist of 2023 is the radical Russian cartoonist Mikhail Zlatkovsky, with his witty and acerbic take on the strange ways in which humans participate in sex. See his wonderful work now by clicking here, and the best possible new year to you all!

Not the only one …

28th December 2022

From time to time we hear from an artist manqué who is so pleased and relieved to have found us that they are moved to write and express their gratitude. They’re not the only person in the world who longs for an intelligent and sensitive version of intimacy and eroticism.

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Every which way

27th December 2022

There’s nothing like a bit of self-promotion, and today’s new artist, Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck, was brilliant at it. In 1856 he shocked Paris with his ‘discovery’ of Raimondi’s lost ‘sexual positions’ classical drawings – now you can see them all by clicking here (and may you too live to be 109!).

Ho ho ho!

25th December 2022

Wishing everyone a content and peaceful midwinter holiday, with just the right balance of excitement and relaxation. Thank you all for your continuing support! With love and kisses from Rosie (painting by Kirill Fadeyev, our newest addition).