Well hello, sailor!

15th July 2022

With the help of one of our lovely American followers, we have now been able to source all 29 Jean Cocteau illustrations for the 1947 edition of Genet’s Querelle de Brest, plus many related drawings. You can see all of Cocteau’s shamelessly gay fantasies by clicking here.

No holds barred

13th July 2022

Addiction, longing, desire, loneliness, violence and sexuality are the themes of German artist Otto Lackenmacher’s etchings and paintings. Especially sexuality! See this original and highly talented artist’s work now by clicking here, and be inspired.

Ex libris eroticis

8th July 2022

Ex libris or bookplates are eagerly sought by collectors, and in recent years there has been a definite trend towards erotic subjects. Today’s new artist, Cornelis Labots, was brilliant at portraying the naked body in woodcut; see his ex libris now by clicking here.

Anyone for cards?

7th July 2022

Adding the inimitable Sylvie Jones’ A Wicked Pack of playing cards completes all the erotic work she produced for the Erotic Print Society in the 1990s. See the whole titillating set now by clicking here.

A gallery of erotism

5th July 2022

Something a little different today – a large portfolio published in Paris in 1935 containing works by nearly fifty artists, all under the category of ‘Erotism’. Erring on the safe side, the collection nevertheless includes many striking images – see them all now by clicking here.

Oh, Walter!

4th July 2022

Another colourful and imaginative erotic portfolio by Louis Berthomme Saint-André today, his 1932 illustrations for My Secret Life by the enigmatic and verbose Victorian sexual explorer ‘Walter’. What didn’t Walter get up to? See the whole series now by clicking here.

Was there ever more explicit erotic poetry?

3rd July 2022

‘Cunt as wide as an estuary/Where my love’s seed often died’ – the French poet Apollinaire was one of the greatest ever erotic writers, and the 1934 illustrations for his collected works by Louis Berthomme Saint-André are just brilliant. See them all now by clicking here.

Home again, home again

2nd July 2022

Home from our hols again, and straight down to a lovely portfolio from the ever-popular Paul-Émile Bécat, his very explicit 1938 illustrations for Une jeune fille à la page. See them all now by clicking here.

Holiday time!

12th June 2022

It’s that time of year again, and Rosie is off on her summer holidays for a couple of weeks. Back in early July – until then you can all spend your time looking at the thousands of lovely pictures you haven’t explored yet! And you can tell all your friends and followers who haven’t found us yet to hotfoot it to honesterotica – they won’t regret it … 

Under the skin

11th June 2022

‘I paint for people who are level-headed but who have an unspoken vice deep inside them.’ This is the Swiss-French painter and printmaker Félix Vallatton, today’s new artist, whose brilliant woodcuts capture bourgeois Parisian life at the fin-de-siècle. See his work now by clicking here.