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The third installment of a practical SM technique series explaining variant suspension methods. It combines instructional text, diagrams, and photographs of rope suspensions involving different body positions, attachment points, and support arrangements, with...

An instructional and anecdotal article on urethral masturbation and the insertion of foreign objects, discussing devices, techniques, bodily sensations, and reported experiences involving both men and women. It also addresses precautions, hygiene, possible com...

The first part of Suzui Koreo’s personal “sex-slave record” combines autobiographical testimony with photographs and diagrams of bondage scenes, restraints, and handmade devices. It describes experiences of submission, sensory restriction, gagging, penetration...

An erotic reportage account follows an M-oriented woman through her first extended bondage session, arranged and photographed by the author. The sequence depicts rope bondage in several positions, escalating restraint and exposure, verbal direction, and an ene...

An extended discussion of breast-focused SM fantasies and practices, drawing on Scandinavian and Japanese erotic magazines, personal reactions, and photographic examples. It considers breast sensitivity, bondage and suspension techniques, clamps, impact, nursi...

An illustrated reader/artist feature centered on a drawing of a bound, heavy-set woman and the artist’s stated preference for depicting fat women. The accompanying text discusses erotic and SM illustration, artistic aims, reader requests, and the possibility o...

A cluster of editorial and publication notices for Kitan Club and KK Tsūshin explains submission guidelines, editorial policies, back-issue availability, subscription and direct-purchase arrangements, and the recruitment of special members and readers. It also...

An illustrated survey examines depictions of women’s punishment and restraint in postwar popular fiction and erotic publishing. It compares scenes by different artists, publications, and narrative settings, presenting them as evidence of changing postwar eroti...

A Japanese translation of Sophie Widemann’s French erotic novel Une Société de Masochistes, introduced by the translator and illustrated with scenes of domestic domination. The narrative follows Sofia as she trains Jan into an obedient household subordinate th...

A practical and psychological discussion of varied punishment scenarios, focusing on rope binding, restrictive positions, sensory discomfort, spanking, and the dynamics of sadistic and masochistic response. Illustrated examples show different ways of tying sub...

An illustrated historical and technical survey of Japanese capture-rope methods, describing rope materials, lengths, knots, and numerous named patterns used to restrain arrested persons. The article connects traditional torinawa techniques with contemporary er...

The final chapter of Kuroi Chinpei’s autobiographical record recounts his longstanding sexual fantasies, fetishistic interests, bondage-related imagination, and conflicted relationships with women and his wife. It also follows his encounters with Christianity,...

The fifth installment of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple whose relationship develops into an elaborate “queen” role-play. The wife assumes increasingly dominant control over her husband through staged commands, humiliation, s...

An erotic dominance fantasy centered on a submissive figure at the feet of a commanding queen, emphasizing hierarchy, surrender, and ceremonial submission.

Naruse Akira examines the recurring cultural image of the Christian martyr and its imitation in sadistic and masochistic imagination. The essay discusses Tokugawa anti-Christian persecution, torture and execution, religious sacrifice, authoritarian violence, a...

A first-person erotic narrative centered on urination, public toilets, and the narrator’s increasingly intense fascination with women’s bodies and bodily functions. The story combines voyeuristic observation, fetishistic imagery, and scenes of private sexual f...

A satirical erotic story presented as a supposedly moralistic tale, following a widow and a younger man through sexual attraction, pursuit, marriage, and domestic life. Its comic dialogue and exaggerated plot use romance, economic calculation, and sexual desir...

A reader writes to Kawabata about the beauty of bound bodies and asks about his personal history with bondage, including when his interest began, memorable experiences, and the circumstances behind his work and photographs for K.K. publications. The piece func...

This historical-sexological essay surveys accounts of seppuku by boys and women, drawing on chronicles, literary works, theater, illustrations, and modern reports. It emphasizes the gendered symbolism, bodily spectacle, emotional drama, and eroticized presenta...

A first-person erotic confession recounts how a man becomes subject to a female physician’s laboratory experiments and increasingly submits to her authority. He is medically examined, injected, stripped, restrained in specialized apparatus, and subjected to hu...

A serialized first-person SM narrative in which a woman recounts her abduction, confinement, and repeated rope bondage, gagging, and physical punishment by a dominant man. The melodramatic account intertwines captivity, humiliation, emotional dependency, and a...

A first-person diary-style erotic narrative recounts the binding and suspension of a woman, detailing rope placement, posture, physical sensation, and the shifting interaction between the participants. The piece presents suspension as an intense scene of submi...

A photographic feature demonstrates tight binding with coarse hemp rope, showing multiple configurations involving the torso, breasts, arms, legs, and wrists. The accompanying text discusses rope selection, pressure, bodily sensation, and the visual presentati...

Himeumi Shirō recalls his experiences in Shanghai, describing the city’s wartime and postwar transformation through its parks, cinemas, streets, theaters, and entertainment districts. The memoir pays particular attention to prostitution, public erotic performa...

A first-person erotic narrative about a woman treated as a slave and subjected to elaborate bondage, humiliation, corporal punishment, and coercive sexual control. The story emphasizes her enforced submission and the sadistic fantasies of the men who restrain...

A serialized erotic narrative recounting Sachiko’s transformation from a married woman into a bound and controlled wife. Through captivity, rope restraint, forced nudity, domestic discipline, and escalating abuse, the story develops a slave-wife fantasy center...

A first-person erotic narrative recounts a woman’s short, destructive marriage to Onoda, a double-amputee war veteran whose physical dependence becomes the basis for her control and sexual revenge. Their domestic life is marked by humiliation, role reversal, c...

A fictional wartime military anecdote set in the barracks world of the Japanese army, depicting soldiers’ sexual frustrations, intimate entanglements, and the disruptive presence of domestic relationships and desire during the final years of the war.

A first-person diary records a young man’s voyeuristic fascination with male beauty, including his intense response to a nude male photograph and his conflicted reflections on sexuality, desire, and a repressive upbringing.

A sensational historical account of Ivan the Terrible, portraying his reign through stories of political violence, torture, executions, massacres, and arbitrary cruelty toward nobles, servants, and ordinary people. The article emphasizes the tyrant’s sadistic...

The fifth installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic novel follows a married couple whose encounters with artists and other outsiders awaken forbidden desires, jealousy, and shifting sexual roles. The narrative develops through adulterous intrigue, psychol...

A first-person confession by a private tutor describing his voyeuristic observations of an employer’s household and his subsequent sexual involvement with a young woman. The narrative centers on peeping, secrecy, fetishized clothing and bodies, and coercive er...

An essay arguing for a more expansive appreciation of nude bodies in art, contrasting conventional representations of male and female bodies and discussing photography, sculpture, painting, and the aesthetics of bodily form. It also reflects on changing standa...

A first-person erotic confession tracing the author’s childhood attachment to animals, developing sensory and sexual interests, family influences, relationships, and later encounters with erotic desire. The narrative blends autobiographical memory with reflect...

Part four of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized first-person SM fiction follows a husband whose idealized new-marriage fantasies develop into encounters involving female authority, humiliation, punishment, and elaborate restraint. The narrative moves between domestic...

A first-person erotic encounter in and around a public lavatory develops around a woman’s display of herself, colored newspapers or toilet paper, and fantasies of being bound. The narrator describes the woman’s appearance, behavior, and the voyeuristic fascina...

This essay traces images of bound women and related eroticized restraint across hell paintings, Japanese prints, illustrations, photographs, films, and popular magazines. It compares historical and postwar visual culture, discussing changing conventions of kin...

A tragic erotic narrative about the relationship between two men, centered on the beauty, vulnerability, and changing circumstances of a young man named Ryōsuke. Their intimate encounters and conversations about desire, masculinity, and same-sex love culminate...

Takatori Nagaharu compares sexual passion with religious ecstasy, arguing that both involve intense affect, altered consciousness, and devotion to an idealized object. Drawing on psychological theory, Christian and Buddhist traditions, saints’ visions, and oth...

A serialized erotic fiction narrative follows reporter Hirobi as she becomes involved with a secretive camera-lovers’ society. What begins as an investigation develops into a coercive staged photography session involving nudity, rope bondage, restraint, humili...