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A captive woman is shown bound with rope and chain beside a whip, compressing several recurring SM implements into a single fantasy image.

A travel and erotic-adventure installment follows the narrator through encounters away from Japan, blending observations of place, sexuality, nightlife, and SM-inflected fantasy.

A wife describes how her marriage moved from conventional domestic life into deliberate SM play and finally into a self-understood slave-wife relationship.

A historical-style erotic illustration uses a dominant woman and restrained man to invert conventional gender authority.

The narrator recalls formative experiences that led to a self-recognition as a masochist, connecting school memories, humiliation, fetishistic fascination, and later adult desire.

A bondage illustration places a restrained woman in a threatening fantasy scene built around exaggerated forms of hostile hospitality.

An elaborate fantasy illustration presents a captive woman restrained in a mechanical torment apparatus.

A pulp erotic-fiction installment involving captivity, electrical torment, international characters, and escalating sadomasochistic danger.

An extensive illustrated report follows a married woman dressed in rubberized clothing through an organized SM session, combining participant commentary with photographs of restraint, sensory restriction, and group play.

A single-page illustration depicting a woman in elaborate fetish restraints and accompanied by a brief narrative fragment.

A short first-person piece centered on a chain fundoshi and changing relations between a dominant husband and submissive wife.

An illustrated bondage fantasy inserted into the surrounding collector narrative.

A collector describes making and preserving impressions of women's breasts and explains the personal fetish, encounters, and collecting practices associated with the archive.

An erotic illustration of a restrained woman posed astride a garden object, accompanied by the surrounding fictional narrative.

Erotic prose fiction exploring a relationship structured around sadistic and masochistic attraction, with psychological tension between familial roles, desire, and domination.

An extended photo-and-text feature centered on Takamura Hiroko, documenting a succession of rope restraints, gags, leg positions, floor bondage, and staged SM play.

A brief illustrated introductory piece reflecting on the aesthetic attraction of cruelty and restraint within the issue's SM framework.

A color portfolio extending the opening visual material through staged rope bondage poses photographed in domestic interiors.

A large monochrome photographic portfolio showing multiple women in rope bondage, gags, pillar restraints, floor positions, and partial suspension in Japanese interior settings.

A staged photographic narrative follows a jealous young man who abducts, gags, and binds a woman believed to be leaving him for another man, subjecting her to violent punishment before wavering between resentment and affection. The woman’s unspoken remorse and...

An erotic psychological tale follows a married woman whose affair with the narrator develops into an obsessive and increasingly violent relationship. Their encounters, her pregnancy and domestic unhappiness, and the narrator’s fantasies of bondage and lethal r...

A distressed reader describes being sexually humiliated and exploited in domestic and medical-service settings, seeking guidance about his troubling desires and circumstances. The editorial response treats the letter as a problem of abnormal sexuality and pers...

An illustrated historical erotic tale follows two beautiful male youths, Ukyo and Uname, whose mutual love develops within a samurai household but is obstructed by family obligations and social expectations. Their attempt to preserve the relationship ends in a...

Part two of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly coercive and humiliating sexual encounters with Harumi and Ōtsuki, including beach sand play, physical domination, and voyeuristic games. The later chapters broaden the...

The third installment of a conversational sexology feature examines changing sexual attitudes through an extended discussion among the participants. It considers erotic performance and popular entertainment, including stage and film depictions, audience reacti...

A historical erotic fiction set around a Buddhist convent near Nara during the Great Buddha’s eye-opening ceremony. The story follows Kiku’s life among nuns, her encounters with men, and her gradual emotional and sexual awakening amid temple ritual, gossip, an...

A psychologically charged modern fiction centered on Yoshiko, a young woman working in an urban entertainment house and exposed to successive male customers, exploitation, illness, and coercive desires. Phosphorescent light and mirror imagery underscore her co...

An erotic psychological fiction follows Yoshiko through coercive bondage, sexual violence, and an unsettling transformation of fear into confused desire. The narrative moves between abusive encounters, dreamlike recollections, and domestic scenes, emphasizing...

Mise Seirō surveys the religious and folkloric veneration of urine, comparing sacred, medicinal, magical, and ritual uses across cultures including India, Egypt, and Japan. The essay relates urine worship to totemism, purification, fertility beliefs, exorcism,...

Itō Seiu responds to Kuroi Chinpei’s criticism of his paintings, defending artistic freedom and arguing that judgments of beauty should not be confined to conventional Japanese styles or contemporary taste. He discusses Japanese hairstyles, historical painting...

Urushijima Michihei surveys the historical relationship between virgin worship, priestesses, sacred sexuality, and religious prostitution across ancient and modern cultures. Using examples associated with Mary, Isis, Vestal Virgins, and other religious traditi...

A first-person prison memoir recounting a woman’s incarceration, forced labor, hunger, illness, bodily punishments, strict surveillance, and degrading living conditions. The account also describes prison routines, fellow inmates, guards, and the psychological...

An essay on sadism that combines personal erotic narrative with reflections on sexual desire, beauty, art, appetite, and cultural life. It presents scenes of consensual erotic domination, restraint, humiliation, and role-play before arguing that sensuality and...

An erotic-grotesque first-person fantasy follows a man whose encounter with a mysterious woman at a railway-station lavatory develops into an obsessive journey through voyeurism, bodily functions, and dreamlike distortions of reality. The recurring glass toile...

A first-person narrative combines postwar rural life and grassroots political organizing with an increasingly explicit account of male sexual submission. The narrator describes ideological disputes, village elections, marriage, and escalating humiliation, bond...

A historical account of Christian persecution, emphasizing the harsh suppression of missionaries and converts through imprisonment, torture, execution, and forced renunciation. The narrative describes major episodes of persecution in Japan, including mass puni...

An essay examining how cinema produces sadistic and erotic fascination through images of female vulnerability, restraint, bodily exposure, and physical punishment. It discusses the visual and dramatic techniques used in films to create sensual tension and refe...

An illustrated historical essay surveys capital punishment in Japan, contrasting Edo-period executions with modern procedures and discussing prison routines, death-row inmates, execution methods, and the legal and social rationale for the death penalty. It als...

A serialized wartime narrative follows Japanese military personnel during an overseas operation, focusing on their movement through a South Pacific setting, military hierarchy, encounters with local women, and the disquieting emotional and erotic tensions of o...

A reflective diary narrative about revisiting and tearing up an old diary, prompted by embarrassment, painful memories, and the wish to distance oneself from an earlier self. Subsequent entries recount ordinary domestic routines, travel, social encounters, and...