Sorayama is best known for the airbrush paintings and hyperreal illustrations that have made him a pioneer of the sci-fi erotica genre. Over time, his depictions of robotized women in erotic poses have elevated him from cult hero to internationally known artist. Since the beginning, Sorayama’s works explore all the ingredients for taboo in our society, creating images that combine fetishism, bondage, and genetic manipulation, always presented with the intention to provoke. Influenced by American pin-up art from an early age, the majority of his drawings depict an unattainable, idealized woman, or, as he puts it, a “search for the ultimate feminine beauty.” His signature futuristic Sexy Robots series, first created in 1983, were both revered and seen as controversial at the time. His obsession with the female form is not to be taken purely as eroticization. Rather, Sorayama’s women are an idealization of a future where women are free from patriarchy and celebrated as deities or goddesses.