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A series of erotic illustrations imagines women subjected to grotesque punishments in an infernal setting, surrounded by demons and skeletons. The scenes draw on hell imagery, physical restraint, and theatrical depictions of suffering.

An illustrated erotic narrative presents women restrained and displayed before groups of male spectators in a dark, theatrical setting. The scenes include bondage to poles, forced poses or dancing, and an explicitly depicted enema procedure.

A photographic portfolio presenting staged scenes of modern American sadism, including women subjected to suspension, gagging, restraint devices, and other bondage positions. The feature emphasizes the visual display of sadistic practices and specialized appar...

A multi-page photographic collection depicting French women in lesbian erotic encounters, including intimate embraces, seduction, undressing, and physically dominant or submissive poses. Accompanying captions frame the images as scenes of same-sex desire and r...

An illustrated feature presenting eight punishment scenarios using mechanical or structural devices, including rotating boards, stretching equipment, suspension arrangements, and other bondage apparatus. The captions frame these as staged erotic punishment tab...

An illustrated historical erotic narrative in which Ten’ichibō and other characters are captured, restrained, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate punishments and humiliations. The story combines period adventure, captivity, rope bondage, and scenes of sex...

This installment of a serialized SM novel follows a series of coercive encounters involving students, artists, and acquaintances who manipulate, restrain, gag, blindfold, and punish one another in domestic and bathhouse settings. The narrative emphasizes escal...

Kurata Tetsurō offers a reflective analysis of masochistic desire through several forms of erotic play, including bondage, direct physical pain, disciplinary scenes, and worship of an idealized woman. The accompanying illustrations depict male submission, rest...

A multi-page roundtable brings together filmmaker Yoshino Jirō, writer Itō Seiu, photographer Yamashita Kyujiro, and writer Matsui Yoriko to discuss bondage, punishment, rope tying, women’s roles, erotic imagery, and their experiences in film and photography....

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains excerpts from the 1901 German illustrated work Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and literary scenes of women exercising cruel authority over men and enslaved people. The discussion is accompanied by illustrations d...

A dramatic first-person narrative about the narrator’s obsessive relationship with Takeno Kiyoshi, whose vulnerable, transformed body becomes the focus of desire, restraint, fear, and emotional control. The story moves through domestic and childhood memories,...

An erotic first-person narrative follows the narrator’s fascination with a beautiful woman named Junko, whose encounters develop into intense games of seduction, jealousy, domination, submission, and physical restraint. The story treats “perversion” as a sourc...

An extended essay examines socially stigmatized sexual desires and the boundary between sexual “abnormality,” immorality, and criminal conduct. It argues for psychological and social understanding rather than reflexive condemnation, discussing masochism, sadis...

An erotic narrative about a narrator’s encounters with a mysterious woman and her associate, unfolding through conversations, invitations, and increasingly elaborate scenes of female domination. The accompanying illustrations depict women being stripped, tied,...

An autobiographical account by a long-serving anatomy-laboratory assistant describing the dissection of female cadavers, including procedures, instruments, bodily observations, and the practical routines of postmortem examination. The narrator also reflects on...

Itō Seiu presents an erotic-psychological narrative centered on Tōzaburō, his wife Yukie, and an aggressive encounter with a woman on a train. The later sections explore shame, sadistic impulses, bodily sensation and odor, bathing, pregnancy, breastfeeding, an...

A historical erotic narrative set in a Meiji-era licensed quarter, following Toyokichi and other characters through brothel entertainments, sexual intrigue, coercion, and violent punishment involving the titular sisters. The story is accompanied by dramatic il...

A serialized erotic captivity narrative in which the narrator becomes entangled with Mitsue and her sister, whose aggressive games of pursuit, restraint, humiliation, gagging, and bondage increasingly place him under their control. The story combines staged sc...

A serialized historical erotic narrative recounting the fall of Takato Castle during the Takeda–Oda conflicts. The story depicts the capture, restraint, humiliation, torture, sexual abuse, and killing of women amid wartime violence, accompanied by explicit ero...

A serialized erotic narrative follows Miki as he plots and observes intimate encounters involving his wife and other characters, while suspicion, jealousy, deception, and psychological fixation intensify. The episode uses staged voyeuristic situations, domesti...

A melodramatic erotic narrative about an intense relationship among two women and a man named Akashi, shaped by jealousy, illness, sexual coercion, and emotional dependency. The story culminates in scenes of captivity, bondage, and fatal knife violence.

A first-person retrospective confession about the author’s sexual curiosity and transgressive experiences during boyhood, centered on his attraction to a foreign schoolmate named Mary. The account combines adolescent sexual psychology with recollections of coe...

A narrative centered on high-pressure enemas and invasive intestinal treatment, describing the physical sensations, medical apparatus, and escalating procedure in a fetishistic context. The article combines bodily distress, clinical imagery, and anal experimen...

A first-person confession recounts an exhibitionist’s escalating compulsion to expose his body, beginning with furtive incidents around school toilets and developing into staged encounters with women in public and secluded settings. The narrative focuses on th...

A first-person juvenile-prison memoir describes a boy’s descent into crime, arrest, remand detention, interrogation, confinement, corporal punishment, and eventual court proceedings. Its sensational account emphasizes institutional captivity, prison discipline...

An erotic wartime narrative recounts a Japanese soldier’s capture by Zhu Huilan, an educated Chinese guerrilla commander, and his subjection to her violent authority, restraint, and sexualized humiliation. The captive’s fear gradually becomes entangled with fa...

A first-person life history traces a man’s same-sex desire from childhood and school experiences through later relationships, sexual encounters, secrecy, and emotional attachment. The account presents homosexuality as an enduring personal and psychological his...

Hara Tadamasa’s extended criticism examines masochistic themes in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde alongside films, fiction, and other cultural works. It interprets erotic suffering, gendered power, sexual psychology, and stylized representations of bondage, cruelt...

A composite section of publication information, reader correspondence, editorial notices, subscription and submission guidance, promotional material, and advertisements. It documents the magazine’s participatory reader community and the commercial and publishi...

An illustrated instructional feature presenting five variations of binding, shown through front, back, and side views of the restrained body. Arrows and diagrams clarify the positioning and movement involved in each rope arrangement.

A historical erotic scene attributed to Itō Seiu, depicting a woman restrained within an elaborate Japanese domestic or entertainment setting while other figures observe or participate. The accompanying text frames the tableau through historical anecdotes link...

A staged erotic photograph depicts women in a theatrical outdoor setting, posed with rope and apparent restraint while a male figure participates in the scene. The caption presents the women as running wildly, emphasizing motion, spectacle, and controlled erot...

A theatrical erotic photograph presents two women in revealing costume and harnesses, posed as if under the direction of an experienced trainer or handler. The scene combines performance, display, and themes of erotic discipline and submission.

A photographic feature titled “Flagellation” presents staged images of a woman in fetish attire using leather restraints and elevated or contorted poses associated with whipping and disciplinary scenarios.

An illustrated instructional feature presents six types of gags, showing different cloth, strap, and metal mouth restraints and briefly explaining their construction and use.

An illustrated feature titled “The Tragedy of Defeat” depicts Japanese women being captured, restrained, and abused in the Manchurian wilderness, framing wartime sexual violence through sensational erotic imagery.

A portfolio of punishment illustrations by Minamikawa Kazuko presents staged scenes of women tied or otherwise restrained while subjected to whipping and other forms of eroticized discipline.

A photographic demonstration of inverted suspension and two-handed suspension, showing models restrained with rope and suspended from an overhead beam or support. The captions emphasize the rope arrangements and the suspended posture, including a position in w...

A photographic feature demonstrating shrimp binding, in which the model’s limbs are folded and secured toward the torso with rope, producing tightly compressed, contorted positions. The images present the binding as a kinbaku restraint technique.

A photographic feature presenting rope-binding arrangements centered on crotch and waist binding, with models shown in kneeling and reclined positions. The images emphasize the placement and visual form of the bindings rather than providing extended prose inst...