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.

Italian embarrassments

2nd April 2023

The much-loved Italian cartoonist Guido Buzzelli is today’s new artist, with his chaotic scenes making fun of the hypocrisies, rituals and taboos of Italian society. Never overtly sexual, always humorously titillating, see his colourful scenes now by clicking here.

Beyond the boundaries

31st March 2023

Today’s new artist is the transgender Kimberly Wilder, whose drawings from the mid-2000s were an important part of an exploration of sexual freedom and identity. See what you think, and where it leaves your fantasies. See Kimberly’s drawings now by clicking here.

Rural romps

30th March 2023

A new portfolio today from Schem (Raoul Serres), better known as a French postage stamp designer but with a secret sideline in erotica! It’s his Little Cousins from 1948, which you can see all of now by clicking here.