Let the good times roll

2nd July 2021

An important new portfolio today from one of your favourite artists, Paul-Émile Bécat’s 1936 illustrations for Colette by the outrageous Johannès Gros. You want sexual experimentation, you have it! See them all now here, and get experimenting!

Sex with a smile

27th June 2021

Some light relief from today’s new artist, the 1930s Czech humourist Jaroslav Štika. A little dated yes, but my goodness he could draw! We could do with more of this kind of humour today, a challenge for the artists among you … See his work here.

How we lived and loved then …

25th June 2021

A treat from the 1950s today, an amateur album of twenty-two drawings by an amateur but talented hand, fulfilling every fantasy that an early-fifties imagination could desire. They all look so clean-cut and happy! Enjoy them now here.

Choose your sin …

24th June 2021

Do you scintillate, or can you keep up the sinning till after midnight? Today’s new artist, like many of the era, made the most of illustrating the seven deadlies – sloth, pride, lust, gluttony, avarice, envy and anger. See Adolphe Willette’s 1919 cardinal sins here.

Sturm und Angst

23rd June 2021

A second intriguing album of 1920s erotic grotesque drawings by the mysterious Pipifax has recently emerged from the shadows. There’s a right royal battle of the sexes going on here, so who did kill cock robin? Was it the women? See them all now here.

The king of erotic fantasy illustration

22nd June 2021

Several of our regular visitors have made it clear that they would love to see some Luis Royo artwork on the website, so today we have pleasure in directing you to his Prohibited series here, which includes some of his most explicit work to date. Enjoy!

For you – and for me …

20th June 2021

A delightful new portfolio today from Léon Courbouleix, his 1935 illustrated seduction ode Pour Toi, Pour Moi (For You, For Me). Some of his best and well-observed line drawings. See them here.

The gay life

19th June 2021

Continuing the homoerotic theme of yesterday, today’s new artist is the Russian-born but American-adopted Pavel Tchelitchev, with his tender and sometimes magical gay encounters. You can see them all here.

The mid-century gay scene in Berlin

18th June 2021

Ernst Hildebrand’s drawings of the Berlin gay scene in the 1930s and 40s are a record of a time when homosexuality was banned, but was a regular source of income for male prostitutes, especially pretty (and often malnourished) ones. See his work now here.

Eroticism that relies on the interaction of black and white

17th June 2021

Loïc Dubigeon is widely regarded as one of the masters of erotic drawing of the second half of the twentieth century, and today we have added more than 100 new drawings from his Manuel de Civilité and Soumission. You can see all his powerful work here.