May 1961: Special Issue on Men and Women Possessed by the Whip

The May 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around the special feature Men and Women Possessed by the Whip, using whipping as a point of intersection between sadism, masochism, punishment, sexual desire, fantasy, and popular visual culture. The issue opens with historical and humorous images of corporal punishment, followed by an extensive bondage gravure. Its staged photographs move between woodland and rural settings, tatami rooms, and domestic interiors, presenting women bound back-to-back, gagged, restrained in school-style clothing, tied among straw and timber, and posed in increasingly elaborate forms of rope restraint. A subsequent illustrated portfolio, Six Women in Torment, imagines ordeals involving heat, cold water, sharp devices, exposure, whipping, and other forms of punishment. The principal textual feature begins with Ōtatsu Kinji's discussion of the widespread human fascination with whipping and continues with Okumura Sekio's The Fascination of Whipping. Abe Sadayoshi's The Whip Is Alive develops the symbolic and erotic significance of the whip through references to riding, sexuality, punishment, religion, and historical practice. First-person and quasi-confessional pieces then shift the feature toward individual erotic experience: Whip and Leather Strap for a Night, My Whipping Prey, and A Whip for the Buttocks of a Plump Young Woman describe attraction to corporal punishment as desire, ritual, and fetish. The feature also includes fictionalized and illustrated treatments of women trained or disciplined by the whip, as well as reproductions and descriptions of European implements associated with flagellation and sadomasochism. Later material broadens the issue beyond the principal feature. The Nootrix section presents translated or adapted foreign bondage and discipline imagery, including Women's Equestrian Forced-Training School, with drawings of women restrained in apparatus and subjected to riding-themed discipline. The serial Cat-Torment Hell returns to Japanese illustrated erotic fiction. Two substantial closing serials, Aoyama Miekichi's Wandering in Pleasurable Torment: The Abused Woman and Ashidate Eikichi's Flame Emperor Temple: White Tiger Chapter, combine melodrama, cruelty, bondage, and sexualized danger. Reader Salon occupies the closing literary-community portion of the issue, followed by notices about previous issues, books, photographs, agency merchandise, subscriptions, and contributions. The final editorial page solicits fiction, confessions, news, illustrations, photographs, and reader ideas. Taken as a whole, the issue demonstrates Fuzoku Kitan's distinctive combination of documentary rhetoric, erotic photography, translated Western material, sadomasochistic theory, confession, sensational fiction, and active reader participation.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Gravure: Whip Scenes	Uncredited	—	6 –26
Six Women in Torment	Uncredited	35–61	27 –41
The Widespread Fascination with Whipping	Ōtatsu Kinji	62	42
The Fascination of Whipping	Okumura Sekio	63–65	43 –45
The Whip Is Alive	Abe Sadayoshi	66–69	46 –49
Whip and Leather Strap for a Night	Satō Eisaku	70–73	50 –53
My Whipping Prey	Terao Natsuhiko	74–77	54 –57
Whip, Love Me!	Ōōmura Hiroshi	78–83	58 –63
A Whip for the Buttocks of a Plump Young Woman	Tamaru Ryūichi	84–87	64 –67
The Woman Trained by the Whip	Kashiwa Masahiko	99–106	68 –75
Object of Mad Worship	Kabiya Kazuhiko	107	—
Conversation with a Homosexual Masochist	Tani Kanta	128	—
Thousand-Ryō Chest Torment	Uncredited	—	—
Women's Equestrian Forced-Training School	Tani Kanta	139–142	76 –79
Nootrix Gallery	Uncredited	143–146	80 –83
I Became a Woman Even in Body	Hamano Chizuru	147	—
Horse-Riding Maniacs: Nine Women	Kurahito Narito	154	—
Window on Homosexuality	Uncredited	154	—
Room for Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts	Uncredited	155	—
Salon Masochistica	Uncredited	156	—
Cat-Torment Hell	Shinoda Fujimi	162–169	84 –91
Wandering in Pleasurable Torment, Part 1: The Abused Woman	Aoyama Miekichi	170–175	92 –97
Flame Emperor Temple, Part 1: White Tiger Chapter	Ashidate Eikichi	176–181	98 –103
Reader Salon	Uncredited	182–187	104 –109
Agency and Publication Information	Uncredited	188–193	110 –115
From the Editorial Office	Uncredited	194	116

The formal table of contents appears on PDF viewer page 4. The publication's surviving printed pagination is discontinuous: printed page 87 is followed by page 99, page 108 is followed by page 139, and page 146 is followed by page 162. Several departments named on the contents page therefore have no corresponding PDF viewer pages, including Object of Mad Worship, Conversation with a Homosexual Masochist, Thousand-Ryō Chest Torment, I Became a Woman Even in Body, Horse-Riding Maniacs: Nine Women, Window on Homosexuality, Room for Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts, and Salon Masochistica. Some contributor readings in the contents typography are faint, particularly the credit for Whip, Love Me!, and should receive human confirmation.