Highlight 1 Remove Text The opening correspondence section documents readers attempting to organize meetings, exchange photographs and publications, and build personal connections through the magazine’s postal network. PDF pages Category
Highlight 2 Remove Text Gyōda Kazuko’s “Picture of Hell” begins as a sensational first-person story of marriage, betrayal, jealousy, crime, and planned revenge, accompanied by an illustration of a restrained woman. PDF pages Category
Highlight 3 Remove Text The reader-forum essay “Seeing the Belgian Modern Art Exhibition” discusses modern images of distorted, exposed, and suffering bodies, connecting avant-garde art with the magazine’s interest in cruelty and eroticized vulnerability. PDF pages Category
Highlight 4 Remove Text Kita Reiko’s “‘Torment’ and Me” reflects on the psychological and bodily meaning of seme, combining fear, fascination, memory, and artistic imagination in a personal critical voice. PDF pages Category
Highlight 5 Remove Text Advertisements for bondage photographs, manuscript submissions, subscriptions, and direct-purchase membership show the commercial infrastructure supporting the magazine’s reader culture and visual archive. PDF pages Category
Highlight 6 Remove Text Kosugi Eiichi’s “True Affection” uses rapid dialogue among several characters to dramatize secrecy, jealousy, sexual rivalry, and emotional manipulation. PDF pages Category
Highlight 7 Remove Text The closing short-correspondence column and editorial notices return the issue to its central function as a forum linking readers, writers, artists, collectors, and the editorial office. PDF pages Category