Sex education

12th January 2022

It’s not surprising that the response to Stu Mead’s work, today’s new artist, is strongly polarised. Are paintings of young girls exploring their sexuality an important and vital exploration, or simply obscene? See his work now by clicking here, and decide for yourself.

Ultimate originality

10th January 2022

In 1986 a Washington Post editorial described Brad Holland as ‘the undisputed star of American illustration’, and today we have pleasure in bringing you a selection of his iconic Playboy drawings from that exciting period. See them now by clicking here. Enjoy!

Unflinching

9th January 2022

An original and exciting new artist for you today, the bold and courageous Kitty Brophy, with her midnight black, blinding white and blood red drawings of naked fully-sexed bodies, confident and empowered. See her work now by clicking here – and feel the force!

A scandal in Berlin

7th January 2022

Today’s new artist is Charlotte Berend, who in 1919 created a daring portfolio of drawings, which was immediately censored, of the sensational exotic dancer Anita Berber. Now you can see them all by clicking here, and imagine the scandal they (and Anita Berber) created.

Ah Denisse!

6th January 2022

Get ready to have your concept of the erotic stretched to the limit with today’s new artist, the Mexican cartoonist and illustrator Héctor Stanisłao de la Garza Batorski, better known as Eko. Join the beautiful Denisse in her wild adventures by clicking here. Enjoy!

What makes art erotic – for you?

4th January 2022

Honesterotica will shortly be coming up for our fifth birthday, and we’ve come a long way in that time.

We started with just 80 artists; now we have over 340. We started with zero Twitter followers; now we’re well on the way to 10,000. At the beginning we were lucky to have twenty visitors to the… read more

The nature of sex

1st January 2022

The first new artist for a new year is Gérard Gachet – skulls, bones, rocks, shells and reptiles haunt many of his drawings alongside women’s breasts, buttocks and vulvas, the source of life and a subject he found eternally fascinating. See his work now by clicking here.

Black and white humour

30th December 2021

As far as we know the only erotic prints made by the Austrian artist Axl Leskoschek were found in his studio after his death, but his Scherze (Witticisms) are brilliant and imaginative, well worth spending time with – see them now by clicking here.

Beyond taboo …

28th December 2021

An exciting and provocative new artist today; as critic Bruno Richard writes, ‘with Anne van der Linden there is always a sense of horror, but there is also love everywhere, even in the horror’. Love or hate her work, you can’t ignore it – see it now by clicking here.

Ceytaire certainement!

26th December 2021

Today we are pleased to share with you all the colourful, imaginative, thought-provoking world of the Parisian artist Jean-Pierre Ceytaire. If you thought you’d seen every aspect of erotic art the world has to offer, think again! See his work now by clicking here.