- Catalog
- Design
- AI
EthnicErotic began as a hand-built atlas of the world's peoples: one page per people, organized by continent and region, first coded in 2021. By December 30, 2025 the whole atlas had been rebuilt on a modern web stack, reading the same catalog the original had grown since 2021.
The world atlas, the region pages, the world map and search were rebuilt together, along with member accounts and message boards. The Body Atlas came with them: a set of trait pages that compare head and body hair, eyes and eye color, lips, hands, feet, height and weight across groups.
The rebuild also wrote AI portrait creation into the structure of the site. A step-by-step wizard starts from a people in the catalog, and every ethnicity page links into it, so each one is an entry point for a portrait.
Under the hood
- One route per entity: a world page, 23 region pages, a page for every people and a page for every Body Atlas category, all rendered from the live catalog.
- Typed data models describe groups, regions and accounts, so every page reads directly from one shared catalog.
- The Body Atlas is category-driven: each trait category resolves to its own page of sub-categories, each with a name, a description and a reference image.
- The portrait wizard runs in six steps, from choosing a people through body type, clothing, pose and style. Step one is a searchable picker over the whole catalog; arriving from a group page preselects that people and opens at step two.
- region pages
- 23
- steps in the portrait wizard
- 6
- year the original atlas was coded
- 2021
See it on the site
Related build notes
- Mar 29, 2026The Body Part Atlas becomes the Phenotype AtlasOn March 29 the atlas took a scientific name and its own landing page, every group page became a phenotype profile, and the site centered on AI creators.
- Aug 28, 2026Trait pages measure hair, eyes, skin and face from real portraits"Egyptian eyes" draws about 9,900 US searches a month. Trait pages answer questions like it with distributions measured from real portraits.
- Sep 6, 2026The authoring engine: 10,837 entities, one rubric, 253 new pagesA Wikidata harvest, a written rubric and a four-step pipeline published 253 new peoples pages in one day, from the Mosuo to the Hidatsa to the Tzotzil.