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Fuzoku Soshi · August 1953

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This installment of Kita Reiko's serialized Room of Pleasurable Cruelty follows the narrator's increasingly intimate sadomasochistic relationship with Taga-chan. The narrator reflects on loneliness, widowhood, female same-sex desire, masochistic compulsion, and her fear of the intensity of her own erotic appetite. Endo, a pawnshop proprietor, offers financial support in exchange for being allowed to bind her, connecting economic dependency with erotic bondage. The central scene reverses the narrator's usual masochistic position as she binds and torments Taga-chan. The encounter abruptly changes when Taga-chan develops severe abdominal pain, later diagnosed as appendicitis. The installment closes with the financially desperate narrator thinking of Endo as a possible means of paying for Taga-chan's hospitalization. Historically, the article is notable for its explicit early-1950s treatment of female-female erotic intimacy, sadomasochistic identity, rope bondage, poverty, and gendered economic dependence.

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