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We are also fortunate that Sardax has written about how what set him on the path of femdom illustration. In a 2015 blog post he writes:

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.

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. which he made in 1814. The book begins with a picture of a beautiful woman, and each scene thereafter depicts her in various states of passionate arousal with a lover, until the final picture focuses on a close-up of her genitals.While we’re on this subject, I must mention an artist whose work I discovered on honesterotica. His name is Georges Delfau – at least that’s the pseudonym he uses. His real identity remains a mystery. But whoever he was, he was a brilliant artist and his work is utterly alive and immediate. The models are certainly not glamorous – they are people of all shapes and sizes. In fact, some of the women are exceedingly large and fleshy. The unusual thing is that they are all distinctly middle-aged, yet still pulsating with an uncontrollable lust, made all the more preposterous by their resemblance to the respectable old aunties and uncles of our youth! If Bertie Wooster could have known what his Aunt Agatha really got up to …

Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, is given particular attention. Lucrezia is accused of is committing incest with her brother Cesare, and with her father, but it is commonly believed that that was a slander by her first husband, Giovanni Sforza, whom she married in 1493. The marriage was a political one, helping Alexander forge powerful ties with his uncle, the Duke of Milan, and she was just thirteen while Giovanni was twenty-six. Enemies of the influential family lapped up the incest stories, and rumours about Lucrezia’s general sexual behaviour were rife. Maybe a steamy story with minimal touch gets you going. Maybe a lot of touch with minimal reading gets you going. Maybe the amounts are equal. Whatever the historical truths, Katharina Kranichfeld sees many parallels between the experience of Lucrezia Borgia, her own experiences of sexual abuse, and the way that facts and rumours around the misuse of power are still rife today. This powerful series of etchings and paintings, made in 2010–11, is one of her most striking works. We show here the coloured versions, where the pale turquoise of a naked Lucrezia is contrasted with the purples and reds of church and court, the uncoloured etchings, and the paintings from the same series. Portrait of a Courtesan as Flora (assumed to be a portrait of Lucrezia Borgia), Bartolomeo Veneto, c.1520 Because there is so much material that could be included, it’s important to have a clear idea about the criteria for inclusion. In many ways it’s easiest to say what I don’t include – I’m not very interested in unimaginative, repetitive and derivative work, especially if it’s just naked women in stereotyped poses. So no pin-ups or kitsch ‘girlie’ artwork. I don’t include extreme sexual violence, especially involving the degradation and humiliation of women; there’s far too much of that both in real life and in second-rate artwork.Sardax started his illustration career drawing fairly conventional erotica, but by the late 1990s was firmly established as a femdom artist, working for publications including The Governess and the American fetishist magazine Leg Show. Commissions from Japanese magazines also took him down the path of oriental femdom, and one of his inspirations is the Japanese femdom artist Namio Harukawa. Once Monthly, a typical Sardax image from the early 90s 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. When you apply the Quantum Model to your response, the amount of stimulation of the body-mind components can vary. This is the unique and wonderful part of the model. Only you know what amounts you need of what. It’s the MORE factor. Do you need more mind or more body stimulation? It’s your job to communicate, to yourself and/or a partner. 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’ Nauman is also interested in the power and effect of language, and its ability to communicate ideas. He is often playful with words, as can be seen in the text for