Visualising violation

10th June 2022

Sexual violence is a contentious and difficult topic, but sometimes art is a powerful and cathartic channel for conveying such experience, which is why today’s new portfolios by the German artist Katharina Kranichfeld are worth spending time with. See her work now by clicking here.

Intimacy in black and white

8th June 2022

The stark, powerful monochrome works of the Polish artist Ewelina Kołakowska are today’s new addition to honesterotica. Dark and sensual, see her etchings and paintings now by clicking here.

Something special for monsieur?

6th June 2022

A little rococo amuse-bouche from 1900 today, a portfolio of twenty vignettes of everyday naughtiness as would have been sold to ‘a discriminating gentleman’ visiting the specialist bookshops in the backstreets of Paris. Enjoy them now by clicking here.

It’s a gay world!

4th June 2022

What a treat today! We are delighted to bring you the colourful and witty gay world of the great Michael Kirwan, whose talent brought to life the variety of intimate encounter and fired the imagination of his many admirers. See his wonderful work now by clicking here.

Earthly paradises?

3rd June 2022

Ghost-like naked women interacting with their surroundings while they explore their animal impulses – that’s the leitmotif of today’s new artist, the Iranian-Belgian Sanam Khatibi. Tender or brutal, romantic or savage? You decide – see her work now by clicking here.

Some enchanted penis …

31st May 2022

It’s always a pleasure to offer a new portfolio by the French artist Paul-Émile Bécat, and today we’ve added his 1950 plates for the magical love story Tanzaï et Néadarné, which includes Tanzaï’s genitals being turned by a fairy into a milk-strainer. See them all by clicking here.

Spicing up the everyday

29th May 2022

An exciting and provocative new artist for you all today – the Slovakian-American Katarina Janečková Walshe with her exuberant explorations of domestic sexuality, not to mention the ever-present bears! See her thought-provoking work now by clicking here.

Gay excess!

28th May 2022

Male component size and quantity of product are key features of the distinctive pencil art of the gay artist known only as Joseph, today’s new addition @honesterotica. See his copious work now by clicking here and ponder on the real meaning of hyperspermia!

Sweetly profound orientalism

27th May 2022

Today’s illustrations for a new edition of Franz Toussaint’s translations of prose poems from the Arabic, The Garden of Caresses, was Mariette Lydis’s last book commission. Warning: mild eroticism, children and animals :-)  See them all now by clicking here.

Most revolting …

25th May 2022

Back to 1808 today with ‘the most monstrous and the most revolting that impiety, corruption and immorality have ever produced’. Anon’s illustrations to Évariste de Parny’s Battle of the Gods maybe seem a bit tame these days, but see what caused all the fuss now by clicking here.