April 1960: Special Issue on the Psychology and Reality of Whipping

The April 1960 issue of Fūzoku Kitan is organized as a broad “pleasure in cruelty” special issue, with a particularly sustained thematic concentration on whipping, corporal punishment, bondage, and the psychological relationship between pain and erotic desire. Its opening sequence combines reproductions of historical Japanese and Western punishment imagery, a color illustration titled “Five-Colored Satan,” an illustrated portfolio by Oda Toshimi, and extensive photographic bondage layouts. These opening pages establish the magazine’s characteristic mixture of historical curiosity, visual sensationalism, quasi-ethnographic commentary, and staged erotic tableaux. The principal editorial feature, “The Psychology and Reality of Whipping,” begins with Uemura Kyūzō’s discussion of whipping as sexual expression, exhibitionism, domination, and fetishistic fixation. It is followed by Yamashita Seiichi’s historical survey, which ranges across religious penitence, ritual punishment, fertility customs, judicial discipline, and European flagellant traditions. Nishitō Isuke’s “The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil” and Masaki Shin’ichi’s reader-selected confession “Love Born from Whipping” move from analytical treatment into fictionalized or testimonial narratives in which punishment becomes a mechanism for erotic awakening and emotional attachment. Negishi Kō’s “The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker” extends the special issue into a grim historical case study of pain, masochism, mutilation, and fatal obsession. The middle portion broadens into supernatural, historical, and sensational fiction. It includes “Night Succubus,” an illustrated gallery of erotic art, “The Woman of the Burning Stake,” “Intercourse Between Human and Snake,” “The Hellish Nunnery,” and accounts involving pistols, aristocratic women, restrained women, and the figure of Fanny Hill. These pieces alternate between narrative fiction, translated or adapted material, historical anecdote, and interpretive commentary. Recurring subjects include convent fantasy, occult seduction, punishment chambers, coercion, female dominance, clandestine couples, and the transformation of fear or shame into erotic excitement. The later issue contains shorter essays and confession-like features on body hair, sexual superstitions, Meiji-period curiosities, unusual methods of arousal, leather-strap pain, women treating men as servants, mass captivity, female wrestling, jeweled hair ornaments, fantasies of savagery, and necrophilic fixation. The closing pages continue the magazine’s mixture of pseudo-scientific speculation, historical miscellany, fiction, reader-oriented discussion, and promotional matter. Taken as a whole, the issue presents sadomasochism not as a single practice but as a cultural system linking ritual, punishment, visual art, confession, folklore, history, fantasy, and modern sexual identity.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Five-Colored Satan	Uncredited	color frontispiece	6
A Mirror of Whipping	Uncredited	—	3 –5
Oda Toshimi Illustration Collection	Oda Toshimi	—	8 –11
Bound Beauty	Uncredited	—	12 –21
Leather Belts, Rope, and Monkey Whips	Uncredited	—	22
Punishment for the Buttocks	Uncredited	—	23 –24
The White Fish	Uncredited	—	25 –27
The Psychology of Whipping	Uemura Kyūzō	32–35	29 –32
History of Whipping	Yamashita Seiichi	36–39	33 –36
The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil	Nishitō Isuke	40–42	37 –39
Love Born from Whipping	Masaki Shin’ichi	43–47	40 –44
The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker	Negishi Kō	48–54	45 –51
Night Succubus	Toyoshima Susumu	55–57	52 –54
Gallery of Famous Erotic and Bizarre Paintings	Uncredited	58–63	55 –60
The Woman of the Burning Stake	Kageura Keita	64–71	61 –68
Intercourse Between Human and Snake	Sengoku Sentarō	72–78	69 –75
The Sadomasochistic Couple in the Room of Passion	Takeuchi Ryūgo	79–81	76 –78
The Hellish Nunnery	Kitahara Shigeki	82–89	79 –86
The Sadist with a Pistol	Kanda Kimio	90–96	87 –93
The Blood-Bath of the Countess	Kawamura Sadao	97	94
The Loveliness of a Bound Woman	Katsurao Takao	98–100	95 –97
The Story of the Sacred Prostitute Fanny Hill	Iriya Daisuke	101–108	98 –105
Four Mysteries Concerning Body Hair	Tamamaru Kiyohiko	109–113	106 –110
Curious Sexual History of the Meiji Era, Part 3	Uncredited	114	111
Double Suicide of the Separate Princesses	Uncredited	115	112
Games of Perverse Pleasure	Uncredited	116–121	113 –118
Confession of a Woman: I Cannot Be Satisfied Without Unusual Methods	Taniatsu Chūji	122–124	119 –121
Intoxication Born from the Pain of a Leather Strap	Nakada Kimiyo	125–126	122 –123
The Pleasure of Treating a Man Like a Servant	Ōtaki Sayoko	127–129	124 –126
The 168 Women Who Became My Prey	Asada Harukichi	130–134	127 –131
Beginning of Female Sumo	Toyoshima Susumu	135	132
The Jade Hairpin	Yatsu Chūji	136–141	133 –138
Am I a Savage?	Matsui Hiroshi	142–145	139 –142
The Man Possessed by a Woman’s Corpse	Otoha Kiyoji	146–158	143 –155

The scan contains 155 PDF viewer pages. The formal contents appears on PDF page 4. Printed pagination begins after the illustrated and photographic front matter, with printed page 32 corresponding to PDF page 29; later entries generally follow a three-page offset. Several names and short front-matter titles are printed very small or are affected by wear, staining, and spine loss. The reading of the title rendered here as “The Jade Hairpin,” and several personal-name romanizations, should receive human review against the original Japanese typography. The final article continues through the publication-information page.