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A multi-part erotic narrative set in Osaka’s Tobita pleasure district, following a male visitor’s encounters and conversations with prostitutes and other women. Across successive episodes, the story explores commercial sex, marital tensions, sexual bargaining,...

A historical illustrated comparison of Eastern and Western torture, focusing on four interrogation punishments used under the Edo shogunate: beating, stone-holding, water torture, and suspension. The text describes the procedures, equipment, bodily effects, an...

An extended essay examining sadism as a psychological and erotic disposition, contrasting bodily pain, humiliation, fear, and domination with masochistic pleasure. It discusses marital and domestic scenarios, restraint devices, whipping, blindfolding, and othe...

The third installment of Kito Koichiro’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly obsessive relationship with Harumi, a married woman whose confidence and sexual authority reshape his domestic life. Their affair develops through jealousy...

Kosaka Tamie’s extended account of life inside a women’s prison describes inmate hierarchies, surveillance, routines, and disciplinary practices. It focuses especially on corporal punishment, forced undressing and exposure, humiliation, sexualized abuse, and t...

A historical survey of Japanese seppuku, explaining its ritual forms, techniques, and changing social meaning through anecdotes from the samurai era. The article recounts cases involving battlefield defeat, loyalty, punishment, family duty, and demonstrations...

A historical and sexological survey of male same-sex desire, tracing terminology, changing social attitudes, literary and medical discussions, and examples from Japan and other cultures. The article also considers related concepts such as boy-love, pederasty,...

A reader-correspondence feature presenting erotic letters and requests concerning imagined encounters, erotic illustrations, and bondage scenarios. The exchange demonstrates the magazine’s participatory community function and readers’ use of correspondence to...

An essay tracing sadistic impulses through Western and Japanese literature, theater, legend, and history. It discusses figures and episodes including Salome, Judith, Japanese ghost and demon tales, violent historical rulers, executions, cruelty, and the relati...

An extended essay examines the psychological and physiological relationship between pain and pleasure, contrasting sadistic and masochistic responses and discussing how stimulation, restraint, punishment, religious ritual, hypnosis, and social conditioning can...

A reader-style appreciation of selected works from recent Kitan Club issues reflects on erotic images, films, illustrations, and imagined scenes involving female power, bodily display, punishment, and fetishistic suggestion. The writer discusses how unusual vi...

Kuroi Chinpei replies to Itō Seiu in a debate over erotic art, beauty, and the representation of the nude. He defends the artistic and emotional value of frank depictions of the body while criticizing moralistic objections and reflecting on sexuality, beauty,...

Morihara Taichi recounts memories of his military-service years, including barracks life, fellow soldiers, discipline, training, wartime routines, and postwar recollections. The memoir combines humorous anecdotes with reflections on military masculinity, hards...

An essay on grotesque erotic experience, illustrated through a disturbing first-person account of workplace relations, sexual manipulation, and a woman’s control over men. The narrative emphasizes fetishistic attention to the female body, especially the feet,...

A concluding reflection on the destructive value and consequences of erotic curiosity, in which the narrator recognizes that his desires led him to exploit and harm a woman. The piece links sexual obsession with guilt, self-reproach, and the breakdown of ordin...

The supplied pages present an illustrated-text feature on actresses portrayed bound in Japanese films and stage productions. It surveys named performers and describes scenes involving rope restraint, suspension, gagging, and other forms of staged captivity.

The continuation catalogs additional actresses and dramatic scenarios involving capture, tying, punishment, and forced posing, emphasizing the visual and theatrical conventions of bound-woman scenes. The feature concludes with further examples drawn from perio...

A diary-style erotic narrative recounting an encounter that develops into forced undressing, immobilization, pain, and humiliation between partners. The first-person account emphasizes conflicted desire, vulnerability, and the psychological tension of restrain...

An illustrated physiognomic essay claiming that the shape, color, position, and movement of the eyes and eyebrows reveal sexual temperament, emotional character, and relationship tendencies. It presents eye diagrams and categories as a form of popular sexual p...

An essay reflecting on double suicide through romantic relationships, omens, bodily signs, and the social pressures surrounding illicit or desperate love. It combines observations on sexual psychology with commentary on changing modern attitudes toward passion...

A historical supernatural erotic tale set amid warfare and rural religious life, in which a woman associated with theft and sexual transgression is captured, bound, abused, and ultimately subjected to grotesque postmortem transformations. The accompanying illu...

A first-person account follows a rural woman working in Tokyo who is drawn into a lodging house and subjected to escalating coercion by a man and woman. Her ordeal includes rope binding, gagging, immobilization, humiliation, and psychological distress, present...

A tragic literary narrative about Shinkichi, an older man who finds intense companionship and erotic attachment with the younger Matsuo, then suffers anxiety and heartbreak when their relationship is threatened by separation and social constraints. The story e...

A dialogue presents the aftermath of a married woman’s earlier confession of infidelity. The speakers discuss her unhappy marriage, emotional and sexual attachment to another person, possible divorce, and the guilt, secrecy, and uncertainty surrounding their r...

A historical-sexological essay on the sexual customs of Romani communities, discussing courtship, marriage, gender roles, sexual behavior, clothing, adornment, color symbolism, erotic beliefs, and magical practices. The account reflects the period’s comparativ...

An illustrated comic dialogue depicting an escalating domestic quarrel involving accusations, deception, money, and strained marital or household relationships. Its eroticized humor is built around sexual jealousy, social embarrassment, and the breakdown of tr...

The third installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple whose encounter with an intimidating man develops into an elaborate scenario of restraint, humiliation, jealousy, and coercive sexual fantasy. The narrative shifts betwee...

A publisher’s notices page solicits unpublished writing, illustrations, photographs, cartoons, fiction, and other contributions, while outlining editorial guidelines and payment practices. It also announces back issues, subscriptions, direct reader orders, pub...

A married male reader discusses multi-person SM, participation with other enthusiasts, and his belief that group play represents an intensified form of SM experience.

A single-page illustration emphasizes the connection between exposure, shame, restraint, and masochistic pleasure.

An illustration imagines a bound woman displayed within a private SM-party environment.

An essay examines several couples and considers what the slave-wife role means emotionally and practically within marriage, including obedience, punishment, devotion, and negotiated household authority.

Setouchi Isamu recalls an early encounter involving the bondage of the pregnant Kodama Masako, illustrated with photographs of the session.

A dominant woman presides over a submissive male figure in an image centered on ritualized service, offering, and humiliation.

A restrained woman is depicted in a deliberately precarious and humiliating posture, emphasizing suspense and vulnerability.

A long captivity narrative develops through dialogue, coercive control, confinement, and the psychological relationship between captor and female prisoner.

A continuing comic-erotic adventure set partly in London combines travel observations, sexual farce, bondage motifs, and the exaggerated tone of a long-running serial.

A woman's autobiographical reflection recounts the development of bodily and sexual awareness and her growing involvement with SM experience.

An illustration of a domestic bondage encounter evokes remembered intimate life within the accompanying prose.

A surreal erotic illustration pairs a reclining woman with a black cat, adding an ominous symbolic element to the surrounding narrative.