Article Translations

Kitahara Rin’s illustrated feature “Wounded Man” depicts eroticized scenes of a restrained and distressed man, including overhead binding and a dominant female partner. The imagery emphasizes male vulnerability, physical restraint, and staged sadomasochistic d...

A collection of Ayako Nakagawa’s erotic illustrations depicts women bound, threatened, or overwhelmed by fantastical insects and yōkai-like creatures. The accompanying commentary emphasizes the imaginative compositions and the tension between realistic female...

A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women subjected to rope bondage and physical torment, including restraint with rough rope, insect imagery, and other sadistic tableaux. The accompanying text frames these photographs as stylized, contemporary re...

A stylized erotic illustration visualizes an imagined scene of abuse: a woman is shown in a contorted, restrained pose amid looming shadowy hands and figures. The composition emphasizes helplessness, threat, and the fantasy of coercive domination.

A translated erotic story in which Ascott and Chippers turn gambling and wagers into a contest of sexual domination, involving the coercive undressing, binding, humiliation, and abuse of women. The narrative escalates through rivalries, captivity-like confinem...

A serialized erotic narrative about a married couple whose visit to a ranch exposes the wife’s intense fascination with horses. The husband’s curiosity, jealousy, and attempts to understand or direct her desires unfold through increasingly dreamlike encounters...

Yui Keiji’s essay examines an intense erotic fixation on women’s buttocks through personal recollections, observations of clothing and movement, beach encounters, cinema, and imagined scenes. It combines anecdotal testimony with reflections on the psychology,...

A literary discussion of rakugo master San’yūtei Enchō and his grotesque, supernatural narratives, including tales of murder, vengeful spirits, illicit desire, and tragic domestic relationships. The article surveys characteristic plots and figures from Enchō’s...

A serialized erotic essay examining sadism within romantic and sexual relationships through scenes of domination, coercion, bodily control, and punishment. It considers the psychological dynamics of sadistic and submissive partners while presenting dramatized...

A first-person autobiographical account of a male narrator’s wandering life and same-sex relationships in postwar Japan. The narrative recalls encounters with male lovers, work and poverty, gay bars and social marginality, presenting personal desire alongside...

An illustrated essay examining how binding allegedly diminishes a woman’s physical and psychological capacity to resist. It combines sexual-psychological speculation, historical and anecdotal examples, descriptions of restraint methods, and staged bondage scen...

An illustrated survey of implements used in eroticized torture and “torment,” including ropes, gags, straps, and striking tools. The text describes their applications and presumed bodily or sensory effects, while the accompanying drawings depict women subjecte...

A four-part erotic narrative depicts sadistic encounters involving coercion, restraint, humiliation, and the submission of women within domestic and interpersonal settings. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the staged scenes of bondage and abuse.

An essay on sadistic sexual play examines sadist and masochist identities, their psychological motivations, and forms of erotic experimentation, including tattooing and other bodily practices. Anecdotal cases and visual material frame the discussion within pos...

An illustrated erotic narrative from the “Reiko’s Twelve Months” series, depicting Reiko subjected to elaborate rope binding, humiliation, and coercive treatment by male figures. The accompanying prose presents the scene as serialized SM fiction.

A historical essay examining private punishment and torture in the Yoshiwara pleasure district, with emphasis on Edo-period practices used against prostitutes and other women. It surveys restraint, corporal punishment, abuse, and the social and institutional c...

A first-person account of an obsessive fetish for menstrual blood and other bodily traces. The narrator describes secretly observing women, collecting and examining discarded sanitary materials, and incorporating these acts into fantasies involving his wife an...

A correspondence feature presenting letters from women readers about same-sex desire, romantic and sexual relationships, secrecy, marriage, and emotionally difficult personal situations. The editor responds to readers with advice and invitations to continue co...

An illustrated essay examining erotic gags and forms of forced silence, including handkerchiefs, cloth gags, and other restraints. It discusses their visual and imaginative effects, connects them to punitive and captivity scenarios, and reflects on the psychol...

An erotic fiction narrative follows Riko, a young woman in a school and boarding-house environment, whose relationships with a teacher and other women become increasingly coercive, emotionally manipulative, and sexually charged. The story combines jealousy, hu...

A reader-correspondence section focused on men seeking same-sex relationships, presenting personal introductions, physical descriptions, romantic preferences, and requests for suitable partners. The editorial exchanges also discuss loneliness, self-presentatio...

An erotic narrative centered on voyeuristic fascination with women’s urination and defecation, including fantasies of transparent or exposed toilets and encounters shaped by shame, curiosity, and sexual excitement. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the...

A short erotic fantasy about a young man whose nighttime encounter with an alluring woman develops through drinking, seduction, and dreamlike erotic imaginings.

A historical narrative of women subjected to brutal punishment and execution, combining accounts of execution-ground spectacles with scenes of captivity, bodily torment, and sexualized cruelty.

A crime-and-captivity narrative in which a woman is bound with rope, subjected to sadistic control, and ultimately becomes a corpse cast adrift on the water. The story combines eroticized restraint with murder, drowning, and the disposal of the body.

A first-person fetish confession tracing the narrator’s erotic fixation on women’s sputum, saliva, coughing, and related bodily fluids. The account moves from formative memories and voyeuristic observation to the deliberate collection and appreciation of phleg...

A fictional account of a man who becomes the husband and subordinate plaything of wealthy twin sisters. Across the episode, the sisters subject him to humiliating, coercive games involving nudity, restraint, animal imagery, and elaborate displays of female con...

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters, personal disclosures, requests, advice, and introductions among readers interested in erotic and SM culture. The exchange also includes reader-submitted visual material and editorial responses, reinforcing th...

An illustrated historical-erotic narrative recounting the fall of Kita-no-shō Castle during the Sengoku period. It depicts the siege, defeat, deaths, escape attempts, and capture of women inside the castle, with captivity and coercive sexualized encounters for...

An erotic illustration depicts several foreign women undergoing whipping or caning by a male figure, emphasizing spectacle, punishment, and apparent sexualized submission.

Murata Seiichi surveys prewar and postwar Japanese erotic illustrations depicting punishment, bondage, restraint, and sexual coercion. The article compares works by named artists and discusses how historical picture traditions and modern magazine imagery repre...

A serialized erotic-grotesque tale follows the entanglements of circus and sideshow figures, including a snake woman, a monkey boy, and the dwarf performer Gen-san. The narrative combines obsessive desire, bodily difference, violence, humiliation, and theatric...

In this third installment of a personal confession, the narrator recounts the development of his erotic fixation on women’s bodies, bathing and swimwear, voyeuristic observation, and compulsive sexual behavior. The piece reflects on fetishistic desire, secrecy...

An art-historical essay on Itō Seiu’s interest in depictions of bound women, tracing bondage imagery from Edo-period ukiyo-e and popular prints into Meiji-era illustrated media. It discusses representative artists, works, techniques, and the relationship betwe...

An essay that treats the anus as an object of erotic appreciation, combining personal reflection, sexual psychology, aesthetic description, and discussion of anal stimulation. Accompanying imagery and commentary emphasize close visual and sensory attention to...

Part eight of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic novel follows Sayuri as marital betrayal and emotional injury drive her to reverse the power relationship with her husband. The installment depicts revenge through binding, physical discipline, humiliation, and a s...

A social-realist portrait of women employed in a small printing factory, describing poverty, low wages, harsh working conditions, sexual exploitation, and the limited prospects available to working-class women in postwar Japan. The article also follows several...

A first-person fetish autobiography recounting the author’s discovery and practice of masochistic play with a male partner, including negotiated imprisonment fantasies, rope bondage, gagging, whipping, and other forms of physical restraint. The narrative empha...

An erotic horror narrative about Noda Saburō’s obsessive fascination with an agonized nude female figure. His voyeuristic fixation develops into pursuit, restraint, and lethal violence, blending sadistic fantasy with imagery of bodily suffering and death.

A historical and forensic study of women’s ritual suicide by abdominal cutting, examining four cases alongside male seppuku. The article compares wounds, weapons, clothing, body positions, blood loss, and contemporary accounts to assess gendered differences in...