- Jamie Lynn
Jamie Lynn (born February 25, 1981) is an American pornographic actress.
- Tiffany Teen
"Tiffany Teen" was the star of a non-nude (and not quite softcore) yet distinctly erotic pay website, http://www.tiffanyteen.com/, launched March 12 2003 and kept active for almost two years until its cancellation by Tiffany herself in early 2005. Over the course of its two-year life, Tiffany’s website featured about a hundred short and low-quality videos and over ten thousand high-quality photographs depicting her posing in various sexy outfits, …
- Ron Harris
Ron Harris (born 1940) is an American erotic photographer and television director. In 1982 Harris created and directed "Aerobicise" and ":20 Minute Workout", both aerobics-based television programs. His nudes are photographed in a rather classical, glamorous style. Hugh Hefner called him "The King of Erotica" and "Playboy Magazine" called his "The Granddaddy of Soft-core".
- Sylvia Day
Sylvia Day is an author born in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her bestselling erotic romantic fiction.
- Lana Sands
Lana Sands (born July 14, 1971 in Virginia) was an American porn actress. She has also worked under the names Alina, Lana Starr, Lana Stone, Leisha Chang Mai, Makaya Leigh, Makayla, Makayla Leigh and Makayluh Leigh. Ethniticity has been questioned and has varied from source to source.
- Linn Thomas
Linn Thomas (also known as Lynn Thomas) (born as Donna Lynn Evans on January 21, 1976 in Newport News, Virginia, USA) is an American erotic model. She appeared first as the "Playboy" Playmate in May 1997. In October 2000, she became a "Penthouse" Pet and the first pin-up model in history to have appeared in both "Playboy" and "Penthouse" as a centerfold model.
- Yulia Nova
Yulia Nova (Russian: "Юлия Нова", b. November 26, 1982 in Moscow, Russia), is a Russian erotic model. Among fans, Nova is known for her unusually large, natural "G"-cup breasts juxtaposed with her slim figure. Nova attributes the size of her breasts to heredity. Nova is a university law student who entered a Russian beauty contest sponsored by photographer Satoshi Kizu, in the summer of 2000. Nova was chosen over one hundred other applicants.
- Karin Schubert
Karin Schubert (born November 26, 1944 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German actress. She appeared in film roles in the 1970s before becoming a pornographic actress in the 1980s. In 1972, she appeared in the films "Bluebeard", directed by Edward Dmytryk, and Yves Boisset's "L'Attentat" (The Assassination). The same year, she appeared along with Edwige Fenech in the sex comedy "Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda" (Ubalda, …
- Denise Masino
Denise Masino (born May 1, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York) is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States
- Shiloh Walker
Shiloh Walker is an author of contemporary and erotic romance novels and novellas. She writes in many romance subgenres, including paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and romantic suspense. Most of Shiloh's earlier stories started out as ebooks
- Dave Naz
Dave Naz was born in 1969 in Los Angeles, Ca. He worked as a musician touring and putting out records in the 80's and early 90's. In '95 he picked up the camera and started photographing people. DaveIs erotic images of women in various states of dress have been brought to the publicIs attention by two monograph books, Panties and Lust Circus. His work has also been featured in numerous magazines including and art exhibits around the world. He has no formal training.
- Laura Gemser
Laura Gemser (born October 5 1950, Java, Indonesia) is an actress of Indo descent and is generally accepted as one of the 1970s most famous erotic icons. She is sometimes credited as Moira Chen, Laura M. Gemser or Laurette Marcia Gemser. After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films.
- Milo Manara
Milo Manara, byname of Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945 in Luson, South Tyrol) is an Italian comic book creator (writer and artist), best known for his erotic approach to the medium.
- Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction, nonfiction essays, and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman
- Lilly Ann
Lilly Ann is an American erotic nude model and pornographic actress. Lilly Ann was born on August 15, 1983 in Miami, Florida, USA. She attended Cooper City High School from 1997 to 2001. She appeared in her first nude photo shoot in 2001, 3 days after she turned 18. Ann has appeared in pornographic magazines and videos, and on pornographic websites. Early in her pornographic career, Lilly Ann performed in hardcore pornography.
- Olivia de Berardinis
Olivia de Berardinis (b. 1948) is an American painter of pin-up art and erotic art. She attended the New York School of Visual Arts, and became involved in the minimalist art movement while there. She began drawing and painting pin-ups in the mid 1970s, then began painting erotic fantasies for men's magazines. Olivia De Berardinis was born in California in 1948 but spent most of her childhood on the East Coast.
- Shannan Leigh
Shannan Leigh (also known as Alexis Taylor) was born in Manhattan, New York, on February 1, 1972 and has appeared in numerous bondage, fantasy wrestling and direct-to-video erotic thrillers, such as "Virgins of Sherwood Forest" (2000) and "Platinum Blonde" (2001). She has also had memorable appearances in the softcore anthologies "Kama Sutra" and "Lady Chatterly's Stories".
- Allen Jones
Allen Jones is a British pop artist famous for his exhibition of erotic sculptures, like the set "Chair", "Table" and "Hat Stand" (1969), each of which turns a woman into an item of furniture. Much of his work draws on the imagery of rubber fetishism and BDSM. Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art (London); from 1961 to 1963 he taught at Croydon College of Art.
- Colleen Coover
Colleen Coover is a comic book artist, based in Portland, Oregon, best known as creator of the lesbian-themed erotic comic book "Small Favors" from Eros Comix and illustrator of the comic book limited series "Banana Sunday" from Oni Press. She is a member of Mercury Studio and the Comic Art Collective. Coover has contributed comic work to "Out Magazine" and has done illustration and cover design for various publications, including "On Our Backs", …
- Patrick Fillion
Patrick Fillion is a Canadian illustrator and writer of comic books with erotic homosexual characters and themes. Fillion drew comic book art and nudes from an early age, but when he moved to Vancouver in 1991 and discovered the gay community and lifestyle, his work went from mild to more explicit erotica. Over time, his style evolved to include more and more risqué subject matter that he developed into a line of self published comics under the name Class Enterprises.
- Marc Stevens
Marc Stevens (born Marc Kutner, February 9 1943 - August 1989) was an American erotic performer. He is sometimes credited as Mark '10 1/2' Stevens or Mark Stevens. Stevens was a pioneering sex industry figure during the 1970s in New York City. He appeared in over 80 pornographic movies, and also led an erotic dance troupe and performed in live sex shows. While he predominantly appeared in heterosexual films and loops, …
- Irina Ionesco
Irina Ionesco is a French photographer born in Paris, France. She was the daughter of Romanian immigrants. She spent her childhood years in Constanţa, Romania before she moved to Paris. She traveled and painted for several years before discovering photography. Her work is described as erotic. In 1974 she exhibited some of her work at the Nikon Gallery in Paris and attracted lots of attention. She was soon published in numerous magazines, books, …
- Garo Aida
Garo Aida (born November 4, 1949) is a Japanese photographer known widely for his erotic work. He has also worked in advertising, contributing his photographs to various Japanese companies' commercial ads. Aida's nude photographs of adult women were featured in the November 1983 issue of the French photography magazine "Photo Reporter", including on the cover. The June 1986 issue of the French edition of "Photo" magazine, which had a special focus on Japan, …
- Nina Kornikova
Nina Kornikova aka Victoria Bonne is an erotic, nude, glamour model, pornographic film and pornographic actress. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month in May, 2003.
- Tina Anderson
Tina Anderson (born Tina Kolesnik, 7 January 1971) is an American writer. She creates gay erotic manga, known as yaoi. Anderson is known more popularly online under the pen name Gynocrat. She's written stories published by Class Comics, Yaoi Press, Sin Factory, Dramaqueen and Iris Print. Tina is the founder of the doujinshi group "Studio Plug'n Play" (also called "Elegant Madness"), …
- Dominique Dane
"Dominique Dane" is an American erotic, nude, glamour model, pornographic film and pornographic actress. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month in February, 2003.
- Franco Saudelli
Franco Saudelli (born August 4, 1952) is an Italian comics artist, mostly known for his erotic stories.
- Wendy Swanscombe
Wendy Swanscombe is an erotic writer from England published by Nexus Books. She writes stories involving both female submission and female dominance and including graphic descriptions of many forms of paraphilia and heavy S&M, including flagellation, spanking, erotic lactation, water-sports, and bondage. One of her most recent books was a pornographic adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". *ISBN 0-352-33848-2 "Vamp" -- an adaptation of "Dracula"
- Robert van Gulik
Robert Hans van Gulik was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin) and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An. Van Gulik was the son of a medical officer in the Dutch army of what was then called the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).
- Christer
Swedish-born photographer Christer, AKA Christer Rosewell, specializes in fine art and erotic images, exploring the human condition through the medium of photography. His images evoke the deep-seated and often hidden fears and fantasies of his subjects, compelling both model and viewer to explore aspects of themselves of which they may have previously been unaware. Christer's work has been influenced by his life experiences.
- Jean-Marie Pallardy
Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director. He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed results. His most ambitious project to date is White Fire (1985), starring Robert Ginty and Fred Williamson, a movie which has proved to be quite popular among camp aficionados.
- Magda Konopka
Magda Konopka (Warsaw, 1943), is a Polish former model and actress, who specialized in sexy and erotic roles in 1970s movies.
- Attila Richard Lukacs
Attila Richard Lukacs is a Canadian artist. In 1985, Lukacs graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. He moved to Berlin the following year, working at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Lukacs moved to New York City in 1996. Lukacs is best known for paintings that depict exaggerated masculine figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets, depicted nude and in homosexually eroticized clothing: uniforms, …
- Jacques Levy
Jacques Levy (29 July 1935 - 30 September 2004) was a Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist. Levy was born in New York City in 1935, later attending its City College. He continued to earn a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University. Levy then returned to New York and became a clinical psychologist. In 1965, he directed Sam Shepard's play "Red Cross".
- Carol Rama
Olga Carol Rama (born 17 April 1918 in Turin, Italy) is a self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompasses an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. The Fondazione Sandretto carries over 150 pieces of Ramas's work. As a young unmarried woman in a fascist Italy, at 21 years of age, …
- Stephen C. Apostolof
Stephen C. Apostolof (born 25 February 1928 in Burgas, Bulgaria, died 14 August 2005, Mesa, Arizona), sometimes credited under aliases A.C. Stephen(s) or Robert Lee, was an Bulgarian-American erotic filmmaker. Born in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Burgas, he claimed asylum the United States in the 1940s. His large body of work was produced mainly between the late 1960s and the late 1970s.
- Evgenia Eremina
Evgenia Eremina (born October 25, 1982) is a Russian nude and glamour model. Eremina was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Eremina (who goes by the nickname Jennie) was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and has become one of the most photographed nude models since starting her career at the age of 18. She got into nude modeling after her photographer/boyfriend began marketing nude photos of her without her knowledge or consent.
- Petra Massey
Petra Massey (born 1966 in England) is a British actress, and a physical theatre performer in stage, film and television. Petra studied a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Trained with Philippe Gaulier and John Wright in London. Petra is best known on British television playing the "enhanced human" Sandstrom in the BBC Sci-Fi comedy series "Hyperdrive".
- Emil Aarestrup
Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup (December 4 1800 - July 21 1856) was a Danish erotic poet. Aarestrup was born in Copenhagen, and died in Odense. He graduated in 1827 majoring in medicine. That same year, he married Caroline Aagard and they settled down in Nysted, on the Danish island of Lolland where he lived for most of his life but from 1849 he was a doctor on Funen. He was a close friend of the poet Christian Winther. Working as a doctor, he wrote poetry in his spare time.
- Aristaenetus
Aristaenetus, Greek epistolographer, flourished in the 5th or 6th century AD. He was formerly identified with Aristaenetus of Nicaea (the friend of Symmachus), who perished in an earthquake at Nicomedia, AD 358, but internal evidence points to a much later date. Under his name two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus, …