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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...

An essay categorizes different kinds of women-haters, attributing them variously to sexual indifference, excessive sexual preoccupation, personal circumstances, intellectual theories, self-conceit, and related psychological or social causes. It supports the cl...

A melodramatic narrative set around the Coral bar follows Okinawan-born women, their romantic entanglements, jealousy, violence, and eventual personal reckonings. Alongside the fiction, it presents detailed descriptions of Ryukyuan women’s beauty, clothing, so...

Matoba Michi’s essay considers male and female beauty through the relationship between natural bodily form, physical maturation, heredity, health, and cultural ideals. It contrasts bodily and spiritual beauty, discusses historical and social variation in gende...

The second installment of Matsui Kōko’s erotic fiction follows Sayuri, a married woman whose recollections of childhood sexual games and bondage merge with her troubled adult desires. Encounters involving her husband, male acquaintances, and other household fi...

A humorous fictional tale follows Nakai, an enthusiastic radio-quiz participant whose prize from an Oriental Spinning quiz leads to a chain of awkward romantic misunderstandings with Michiko. The melodramatic confusion eventually resolves in domestic happiness...

An erotic literary narrative centered on Eikai, an older, cultured man, and his encounters with younger men in cafés, homes, and urban nightlife. Through shifting conversations and relationships, the story explores same-sex desire, social status, physical beau...

A multi-page illustrated social satire follows a husband and wife in an increasingly crowded household, depicting marital intimacy, repeated childbearing, infant care, and the exhaustion of supporting a large family. The sequence uses humorous exaggeration and...

A sensational illustrated sexological narrative about a woman who experiences pleasure through humiliation, physical punishment, and other forms of erotic cruelty. Combining fictionalized scenes, dialogue, and explanatory commentary, it follows her relationshi...

A serialized, illustrated popular-psychology feature examines the desires and frustrations of married women through sensationalized fictionalized case histories. Its vignettes portray extramarital attraction, sexual dissatisfaction, seduction, jealousy, and th...

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative about a married woman whose dissatisfaction and emotional restlessness lead to clandestine encounters with other men. Through dialogue, seduction, jealousy, and domestic deception, the story presents adultery as a for...

A sensational confession-style crime narrative in which a male offender recounts repeated sexual assaults against women, describing coercion, pursuit, concealment, and attempts to evade detection. Illustrated scenes and police-investigation passages frame the...

A sensational illustrated crime report reconstructing the assault of Japanese women by a razor-wielding foreign soldier and the ensuing efforts to identify, condemn, and apprehend him. Combining dramatized scenes, dialogue, and reportage, it emphasizes victims...

An illustrated historical-sexual feature examines the secluded women’s quarters of Edo Castle, portraying the strict prohibition on male contact and the resulting frustration, clandestine relationships, same-sex encounters, and use of sexual substitutes among...

A sensational pseudo-scientific feature presents a supposed machine for detecting women’s erogenous zones, using fictional demonstrations, measurements, electrical instruments, and dialogue between male investigators and female subjects. The accompanying claim...

An illustrated popular-sexology feature about a man who claims to distinguish women by their bodily scents. Through anecdotes, staged demonstrations, dialogue, and comic scenes, it discusses body odor, menstrual and other bodily smells, perfumes, sexual attrac...

A sensationalized question-and-answer study of contemporary sexual behavior examining rape, sexual sadism, and rape-murder through fictionalized or reported case scenarios. It discusses perpetrators’ motives and behavioral patterns alongside forensic examinati...

An illustrated sexological essay examines female masochism, arguing that some women may experience sexual arousal amid pain, humiliation, domination, or coercive-looking situations. It discusses psychological and physiological explanations, contrasts women’s a...

An illustrated erotic fiction serial about an adulterous relationship involving Shimazu, Yamasaki, and Shigeko. The story moves through seduction, secret sexual encounters, jealousy, deception, and a final confrontation as the affair destabilizes the character...

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative portraying household maids in flirtatious, adulterous, and coercive sexual encounters with employers and other men. Through melodramatic dialogue, comic panels, and recurring scenes of domestic service, the feature ex...

A humorous, episodic account of film-location work follows actors, actresses, directors, assistants, and local crews through chaotic shoots in rural and resort settings. The piece satirizes production logistics, mismatched expectations, romantic entanglements,...

A humorous illustrated glossary of erotic and vulgar slang used in Japan’s motion-picture industry, explaining terms, their meanings, usage, and supposed origins. The article presents backstage anecdotes and conversations involving actors, actresses, studio wo...