There will always be people who say that there’s no real difference between erotica and pornography, and that both are equally bad (or good). We’re not going to get into that argument, at least not beyond reminding ourselves that ‘erotica’ comes from the Greek word ‘eros’, sensual love, and ‘pornography’ also comes from Greek, meaning ‘depictions of prostitutes’. This does suggest an important difference, porn generally (though by no means always and inevitably) involving a male-over-female power relationship with some sort of commercial transaction involved. If you would like to read our thoughts about porn and why we believe honesterotica has such an important role to play, you can find them here. honesterotica and you suppressed for centuries by the Catholic Church. Mounted on a sheet are the remains of nine separate engravings printed from copper plates: four show female heads in profile, while three depict the naked upper bodies of women in positions that hint at intercourse. Two nude males seen from the torso up suggest similar activity. The fragments have been cut carefully to avoid any explicit details, forcing us to guess at their original graphic content, but ultimately ensuring their survival from censure by the Vatican. The baseline QM component is that your body is healthy and capable. A physical exam by your OB-GYN can determine this. Purely for myself, I have chosen to paint women in an almost mythical setting – sometimes floating in the air, as I sometimes do in dreams. Trees have always turned me on, as I think has been reflected in a lot of my work to date. Any excuse and I bring a tree into the scene! More recently I have started to paint portraits of actual trees in my area. Some of the older specimens have a powerful presence, and I try to show my personal connection with them as well as revealing their radiance and majesty.

Over the last fifteen years most of my work has come from commissions. I have designed numerous bookplates for private collectors. This was a world I knew nothing about. Who these days thinks of commissioning their own little bookplate to paste into the frontispiece of a cherished book? Now collectors go to world-wide Ex Libris gatherings where they buy, sell or swap to enhance their own collections. As far as I know, no one puts them into actual books any more. Tree Meditation Our needs and desires change at different times of our life. I don’t feel the same need for physical intimacy now, although there are times when I would love to have those hormone-driven energy boosts again. I keep reminding myself that new phases bring new possibilities. I remember a male friend telling me once how testosterone acts as a sort of poison which interferes with the brain functioning of young men. He said he was relieved to be able to think more clearly now he was in his later years. This made me smile at the time, but I guess to a certain extent it must be true for women too. We all do mad things when we’re younger, and for a while our sense of proportion is thrown to the wind. ‘Old Major’, an illustration for Februs In common with many of Germany’s avant-garde artists, Dix’s social consciousness was aroused when confronted with the sordid realities of the Weimar Republic. Having served as a soldier in the First World War, he yearned for a better society in which men could transcend their social levels. His moral outrage at the grotesque and decadent decay of post-war Europe became the defining subject of his paintings, and he honed in on the prostitutes, pimps, profiteers and beggars who had emerged in the intervening years. His anger at the victimization of the war wounded, who had been left half-starved and unable to support themselves, was represented unsparingly, contrasting the suffering of the unfortunate with the monstrous greed of the rich.Though the main focus of EAL is contemporary work, erotic art and illustration has of course been around since people started drawing and painting. To celebrate the vast amount of erotic art and illustration produced in the last two hundred years, EAL is offering two fascinating illustrated presentations by the founder and curator of the world’s largest and best-known resource for erotic art, John from honesterotica. The second QM component is that you can respond to all physical sensory inputs (touches to the body). i.e. You know what feels good and where.

Paula has even created a new self-portrait of herself to accompany these interviews, so here she is. Thank you Paula! So it’s a real privilege for us – and for you – that Paula has honoured us with a series of exclusive blog-style interviews in which we can learn about some of the ideas, inspirations and themes that go to make such a great and perennially popular erotic illustrator. How has getting older and becoming more mature influenced your thoughts about what older people can usefully learn and experiment with in the area of intimacy and the life erotic? however, while overt, is decidedly different from
that of the watercolor and pencil study shown here, which has more in common with the sexually explicit drawings Fuseli made while in Rome. Images such
as the In a career spanning more than four decades, the London-based artist Sardax has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the world’s best-known contemporary illustrators of what has become known as femdom, short for female dominance. Though the term was only first recorded in 1986, the concept and practice are as old as human imagination, where mistresses, madams and dominatrixes are a constant theme in erotic literature and illustration.directed by Dalí
and the Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel. In one scene, a hole appears in a man’s hand—the instrument of masturbation—after he fights with a woman. Ants swarm into and out of the hole, symbolizing the danger of a Perhaps I had been inclined to suppress my feelings in the pursuit of adventure. The other day I came across an old interview I did in the eighties. The young me said, ‘I was consciously trying to discover what sex was when it is completely separated from love’. How odd that sounds! No doubt it was a rebellion against the prevailing view that no decent woman could possibly enter into a sexual liaison unless she was deeply in love. This didn’t mean I wasn’t looking for love – everybody needs love – but I wanted to learn to make the distinction in my relationships between lust and love. ‘Floating Lovers’