Sharing Paradise

15th November 2021

If you’ve wondered what the Garden of Eden was really like, wonder no longer. Today’s imaginative new portfolio from 1910 proves Eve and Adam were having a great time experimenting with each other and the rest of creation – including the dinosaurs! Share their exploration by clicking here.

The best candy box ever

14th November 2021

In 1907 the Vienna publisher Carl Stern published a portfolio called Die Bonbonnière, full of delicious bonbons by the master Franz von Bayros and the too-little-known Emil Ranzenhofer. We have them all here and here. Enjoy!

AirB&B with a difference!

13th November 2021

Fancy a house party with an erotic edge in a French château? Then you’ll love our new anonymous 1930s portfolio which you’ll find here, with fun and games for the whole extended family. Now go plan your own!

Sexual revolution 1848 style

12th November 2021

1848 was a year of revolution across Europe, and one anonymous German artist explored the ways in which political upheaval might also extend to the sexual realm. You can see the imaginative results in today’s new portfolio, Ausbrüche, by clicking here.

Beyond bawdy

11th November 2021

The French have a particularly Gallic tradition of rude songs, ‘Chansons de salle de garde’ (roughly ‘Waiting Room Songs’), and nobody has produced a better set of illustrations for them than today’s new artist, Paul-François Morvan. See them all now by clicking here.

Ten aspects of pleasure …

10th November 2021

A wonderful, colourful, and highly original new portfolio today from the French artist André Lambert, his Ten Pleasing Subjects. Hard to believe that these were created more than a century ago. See all of them now by clicking here.

Bele’s fun and games

9th November 2021

One of the most important German post-war surrealist illustrators, the inventive and playful Bele Bachem is today’s new art artist at honesterotica. See her wonderful Rosewater and Arabian Nights illustrations here and have your imagination tickled!

The ultimate Fanny Hill

8th November 2021

John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is a classic of erotic literature, and nobody created better illustrations for it than Zevi Blum, today’s new artist. Wit abounds in his detailed drawings, which you can see here.

The joy of naked!

7th November 2021

The French artist Lucien Métivet is best known for his innovative Belle Époque theatre posters, but he also illustrated a couple of erotic classics, Roi Pausole and Chansons de Bilitis. He’s today’s new illustrator, and you can see all his work here. Enjoy!

Baroque revelries

5th November 2021

A new portfolio today from the Serbian illustrator Milivoj Uzelac, his 1937 plates for Béroalde de Verville’s baroque, sometimes obscene, and almost unreadable Le moyen de parvenir. See the whole series now by clicking here. Enjoy!