Featured cover artist for such European comix as "Eros", "Kiss", and "Penthouse", Carlos Diez puts a massive amount of research into his creations. Those sketches are intricate blueprints that make for a fascinating study of technique and composition. And yes, beautiful semi-naked girls!

Nick Baer continues his portfolio collection of fine art male nude models, with his picks for 2006. Two dozen men, athletes, artists, from various parts of the world: Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, South American, Mid-Eastern. Full frontal male nudity, color, 40 pages. On some websites, Dylan Jordan is known as Jeremy Steele and/or Jordan Banks.

Attention ladies - Zombies are out for more than just your brains! Sure they smell bad and tend to leave bits of rotting flesh around the house, but c'mon - you can say that about all your old boyfriends! Illustrator Rich Larson digs up a whole new gallery of ghoul-on-girl action!

Once again, Alazar, the undisputed king of kink combines his fiendishly clever mind with his bottomless well of deviant talents and produces an all-new gallery of things that make us all go "ooooh"! Carnal cartooning is brought to heights of hotness! Don't forget your "safe word"! OUCH!

Nothing excels like excess, and when you're showcasing a heavyweight illustrator like Claudio Aboy, a second helping of his outstanding work is simply a must-do! His first volume of exceptionally good 'bad girls' proved to be one of the best sellers in the SQP line of art books! Claudio was quite happy to chain himself back to his drawing board and whip up an entirely 'new' collection of drawings that focus on his favourite subject - the female form! Aboy paints, pencils, and inks - he's a triple threat of breath-taking talent. If you like ladies done the Argentine way (trust us - it's a treat!), then this second tome of torrid lovelies is just what you've been looking for! Scorchin' hot!

The trip to Hell is paved with so many delightful distractions! Namely - the smokey-eyed seductresses that lead the way to eternal damnation. Ahh...being bad was never this much fun! Our second descent to the lower circles feature the illustrative talents of Perez, DeSimone, Marachi, Sosa, Pelaez, Arantza, and other lost souls. Sinful cover painting by Arantza.

Text in English & German. As a photographer, the challenge is in capturing the very moment that a fluid substance interacts with the body in a way that will take the viewer on a sensual adventure, inviting not only to their visual sense but also invoking sensations of touch, taste, and imagination. When successful, the result is a unique moment frozen in time, never to be repeated. The result is photographic imagery that is sensual, provocative and erotic. Living close to Washington DC, Jim spent many years photographing landscapes, monuments, masonry and still lifes, and his stunning images have adorned the offices of doctors, lawyers and dentists. It was not until his daughter requested Jim capture a few maternity images for her that he turned his sights to portrait photography. With this new found passion, Jim completely immersed himself in the study of lighting, posing, and the business of photography, and soon found himself perfecting what was quickly becoming his specialised genre, the fine art nude. Always striving to aim higher, to always improve, and, yes, to push the envelope even further. When asked to pick his best image, Jim says "the best is yet to come".

With this, his fourth book, American photographer Richard Murrian smashes through the boundries of fantasy, and together with a new band of celestial beauties, takes us on an electrifyingly erotic visual journey into passion and desire.

Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, com- bining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe's artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric of the 1970s and 80s and, following his death in 1989 from AIDS, informed the political landscape of the 1990s. His photographic works continue to resonate with audiences all over the world. Throughout his career, Mapplethorpe preserved studio files and art from every period and vein of his production, including student work, jewelry, sculptures, and commercial assignments. The resulting archive is fascinating and astonishing. With over four hundred illustrations, this volume surveys a virtually unknown resource that sheds new light on the artist's motivations, connections, business acumen, and tal- ent as a curator and collector.

Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech's definitive "Sex and the Floating World" offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity. Shunga prints are not like any other form of picture for the simple fact that they are overtly about sex. And once we begin to examine them first and foremost as sexual apparatus, then we must be prepared for some surprises. The author opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those that made and made use of shunga.

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense relationship between artist and model. Matisse's joie de vivre, his love of beauty, and his fascination with the human body are fully in evidence in this lovely volume.

Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt's most beautiful erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing them will awaken the senses and afford the reader the guilty pleasure of leafing through an artist's most private visions.

The spry and devilishly creative pin-up elder-statesman Archie Dickens is back with a new compendium of cuties to delight an appreciative public. A contemporary of such artistic greats as Elvgren and Vargas, Mr. Dickens is still kicking, still making naughty portraits of young ladies in various states of undress - all with a sly smile and an innocent demeanor. Each illustration features a delightful damsel doing something perfectly ordinary, but in such an extraordinary way! Whether on the phone, on the beach, or on the prowl, Dickens makes these girls shine!