Kitan Club, November 1974

The November 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary accounts of organized SM play, fiction, personal testimony, fetish essays, serialized narratives, and studies of specialized erotic practices. Its editorial identity is strongly participatory: models, photographers, practitioners, readers, and writers repeatedly cross the boundary between observation and performance, giving the issue the character of both an erotic magazine and a record of an active SM subculture. The opening section is dominated by photographic kinbaku imagery, including monochrome and color studies of rope bondage, gagging, contorted positions, suspension motifs, rubber garments, and close attention to bodily expression. This leads directly into the major S-Research Society feature, The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く, in which Tsukamoto Tetsuzō recounts a bondage session involving Yajima Yasuko and Kawamoto Kōzō. The article combines photographs with detailed first-person commentary on tying technique, the model's responses, interpersonal trust, spectatorship, and the aesthetics of discomfort and restraint. Its length and documentary tone make it a central feature of the issue. The middle portion broadens into fiction and experiential writing. A student-torture story is followed by Under the Midday Sun, the serialized M-faction profile Porno Actress, the experiential piece One Night in a Freak-Show Hut, the long-running serial novel Great Eruption, and the M-Group work The Female Prisoner. Later essays move toward interpretation and confession: Sadism Seen in Graffiti treats sadistic imagery as a subject of observation, while The Day My Wife Junko and I Burned and The Conduct of Love Slave Pero use personal or quasi-confessional forms. Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget adds another autobiographical fetish narrative before the historical SM serial The Gate of Purple Orchids. The later pages shift toward focused fetish studies. The discussion A Swaying Bridle examines gagging or bit-related restraint, Women's Sumo Notes treats female wrestling as an erotic and observational subject, and My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter gives a lengthy technical and experiential account of medicalized nasal stimulation. Throughout, illustrations and photographs remain integral rather than decorative, reinforcing Kitan Club's characteristic mixture of documentation, fantasy, technique, confession, and community discourse.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Image Gallery	Uncredited	—	3 –26
Toward the Longed-for Love-Slave Wife	Kumiyama Takeshi	29	27
The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	30–63	28 –61
The Female Student Torture Incident	Oda Musaku	64–65	62 –63
Under the Midday Sun	Fumiyama Kiyoshi	66–77	64 –75
Porno Actress	Oniyama Kensaku	78–92	76 –90
One Night in a Freak-Show Hut	Kōe Tatsuo	93–97	91 –95
Great Eruption	Chiba Seiki	98–105	96 –103
The Female Prisoner	Saji Mazō	106–119	104 –117
Sadism Seen in Graffiti	Muranaka Moritarō	120–127	118 –125
The Day My Wife Junko and I Burned	Miura Keiichi	128–131	126 –129
The Conduct of Love Slave Pero	Sha Denzaburō	132–140	130 –138
Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget	Takemichi Seiya	141–143	139 –141
The Gate of Purple Orchids	Fūryū Gokudōken	144–155	142 –153
A Swaying Bridle	Shinkawa Hiroo	156–170	154 –168
Women's Sumo Notes	Omatsu Hirahiko	171–175	169 –173
My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter	Satō Matsuo	176–185	174 –183

The issue identifies itself as Volume 28, Number 11, serial number 321. The formal contents occupy PDF pages 4–5. Main-body printed pagination corresponds to PDF page number plus two beginning with printed page 29 on PDF page 27. The printed contents also list a camera-and-pen SM reportage feature beginning on printed page 186, Kitan Salon beginning on printed page 212, and Reader Correspondence on printed page 260. Those sections are not present in the attached PDF. The final PDF page is printed page 185 and continues My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter without a visible conclusion, so that article is incomplete in the attached issue file.