What’s new
A one-night stand and lots of spanking
26th August 2021
Today’s new illustrator is the talented and versatile French artist Léo Fontan. He didn’t produce much explicitly erotic work, but what he did was very good and well worth knowing. See what you think – his work can be found here.
Boney’s conquests
24th August 2021
The historian Frédéric Masson credited Napoleon Bonaparte with fifty-eight sexual conquests, and his generals followed his lead. Today’s new artist, Célestin Nanteuil, used his imagination to show them all hard at work, which you can see here. Enjoy!
I don’t know what got into me
19th August 2021
Sex and devilry in today’s new portfolio, Diabolico Foutro-Manie, an 1835 collection from Achille Devéria. Is ‘they made me do it’ the ultimate excuse? See all the little imps here.
The great J.M.W. comes to honesterotica
18th August 2021
Today’s new artist may surprise you, it’s none other than the great Joseph Mallord William Turner, he of the Temeraire and watery Venice. But his many sketchbooks also demonstrate his abiding interest in things more corporal – see some of this work now by clicking here.
A 1910 manual of positions
16th August 2021
Today’s new portfolio is a sweet collection of watercolours from 1910 by Peter Geiger, even more compelling than his printed portfolio of a year or so later. A sort of Joy of Sex but a century earlier! See them now by clicking here.
Yes – more Sardax!
15th August 2021
We had an enormously positive response from adding Sardax’s artwork to the site; now we can add to your pleasure with all the illustrations from his landmark, now almost impossible to find, 2006 The Art of Sardax. See all 78 wonderful images here. Enjoy!
Love à la Bécat
12th August 2021
Two new portfolios today from Paul-Émile Bécat, both illustrating novels by René Boylesve, but from opposite ends of Bécat’s career – the perfume of love on an Italian lake and the lovely Ninon learning her lessons in a park. That makes forty Bécat portfolios on the site! Enough yet?
The wonders of sex
11th August 2021
Today we have a fascinating insight into Eric Gill’s 1920s explorations into the art and mechanics of sex through his sketchbooks, conveniently hidden until after his death – see some of his wonderings and imaginings now by clicking here.
A portfolio named Desire
10th August 2021
A passionate, varied – and very red! – portfolio called Desire from today’s new artist, the Hungarian Istvan Prihoda. They’re enjoying themselves, we hope you do too. See his colourful paintings now by clicking here.