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An illustrated folklore and travel guide surveys Japanese phallic stones, fertility deities, shrine traditions, reproductive beliefs, and folk medicine.

A social-reportage feature describes Shanghai prostitution, nightlife districts, street solicitation, foreign commerce, clothing, performance, poverty, and sexual labor.

A travel essay presents Monaco and Monte Carlo through casinos, tourism, luxury, gambling, seaside spectacle, class, and the international fantasy of freedom.

A short eroticized legend uses birds, secrecy, dreams, captivity, and uncanny transformation to frame inherited sexual folklore.

A sexological essay examines abstinence, cruelty, unconscious masturbation, displaced desire, fetishism, sadism, masochism, and ritualized bodily imagery outside conventional intercourse.

An illustrated cultural history of 張形 treats the phallic substitute as a sexual implement, ritual object, manufactured commodity, and subject of clandestine folklore.

A historical-social essay examines foreign women, treaty ports, sailors, merchants, entertainment houses, mixed-race children, clothing, and intercultural intimacy in Japan.

A serialized urban erotic fiction follows seduction, jealousy, voyeurism, financial dependence, deception, illness, and sexual relationships among characters in hotels, restaurants, and lodging houses.

A period sexological essay discusses pubic and axillary hair, sexual maturation, grooming, bodily variation, racialized comparison, and erotic visual preference.

A letter and editorial response address male same-sex desire, loneliness, social pressure, work, marriage, health, and self-control.

A counterfeit-money investigation combines rural reportage, domestic suspicion, adultery, jealousy, interrogation, concealment, and murder.

An essay reads popular verse as evidence of longing, jealousy, separation, marriage, sexual desire, and changing social feeling.

A first-person memoir links office work, economic dependence, adultery, hotels, consumer culture, secrecy, and the narrator’s changing understanding of desire.

A confessional letter describes compulsive fetishistic and coercive practices, shame, bodily detail, medical authority, punishment, and the possibility of treatment.

A historical and psychological essay treats feet, shoes, stockings, exposure, beauty, and foot fetishism across Japanese and foreign examples.

An illustrated theatrical feature eroticizes a female sword-play performer through backstage scenes, costume, spectatorship, youthful fascination, jealousy, and physical combat.

A popular natural-history essay compares animal mating, attachment, jealousy, breeding, and sexual competition with human love and desire.

A seasonal essay connects heat, clothing, bathing, public exposure, voyeurism, harassment, and sexual crime through moralizing pseudo-medical commentary.

Comic dialogue and erotic anecdotes address bodily marks, marriage, pregnancy, sexual expectations, reputation, and domestic relationships.

A wide-ranging sexological essay links erotic desire to pain, violence, domination, gender hierarchy, historical examples, and supposedly anthropological accounts of cruelty.

Popular history recasts Bakumatsu and early Meiji figures through courtesans, lovers, sexual rivalry, disguise, violence, and erotic scandal.

A confessional student narrative explores illness, education, teacher-student intimacy, bathing, emotional dependence, summer travel, and anxiety about social judgment.

An illustrated exchange of erotic letters discusses nude modeling, bondage, exhibitionism, voyeurism, erotic art, private experience, and the relationship between readers and magazine production.

An illustrated narrative follows an adolescent boy’s curiosity about adult women, bathing, observation, domestic sexuality, and eventual erotic initiation.

An art-history essay surveys religious imagery, nudity, erotic symbolism, torture, martyrdom, execution, and the changing treatment of sexual and violent motifs in Western and Japanese art.

An erotic rural-night narrative uses a farmhouse, bride, bathing, voyeurism, dancing, restraint, and shifting sexual roles as its principal motifs.

A heavily illustrated first-person confession traces adolescent sexual development, voyeurism, bathing, homoerotic and heterosexual desire, shame, bodily self-consciousness, and postwar social experience.

The closing page solicits unusual experiences, confessions, crime stories, fiction, erotic photographs, and illustrations, and provides subscription, ordering, pricing, and office information.

An opening portfolio of erotic drawings and staged photographs depicting nude bodies, bondage, restraint, and power reversal.

A full-page illustrated study of multiple nude female figures in varied poses, emphasizing eroticized bodily display.

A full-page illustrated study of multiple nude female figures in varied poses, emphasizing eroticized bodily display.

An opening portfolio of erotic drawings and staged photographs depicting nude bodies, bondage, restraint, and power reversal.

An opening visual portfolio combining harem imagery, scenes of wartime sexual violence, and photographs of a restrained and tormented woman, establishing the special issue's intersection of war, erotic spectacle, and domination.

A lengthy illustrated feature treating the Balkan Wars as a setting for sexual disorder, coercion, violence, and military occupation, mixing historical framing with sensational erotic anecdote.

A Russia-set narrative that uses Moscow and revolutionary or wartime imagery as the setting for erotic intrigue and sexual danger.

A short sensational essay linking the Salome tradition with corpse violation, sadism, death, and eroticized violence.

A first-person memoir-style narrative describing a Japanese woman's relationship with a Chinese soldier amid the disruptions of wartime and postwar life.

A Siberia-set wartime or captivity vignette focused on a senior engineer and a woman associated with his environment, using the setting to explore improvised sexual relations and desire.

A sensational wartime narrative concerning a military group and the sexual vulnerability of women around it, framing war through violence, chastity, and coercive sexual danger.

A survey-style piece on women encountered in different ports, connecting maritime mobility with prostitution, sexual commerce, and changing local customs.