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An essay investigates the historical meaning of “objects for personal use,” tracing the term through literary references and advertisements for intimate articles. It discusses artificial sexual implements, their shapes and materials, and their use among women...

A brief humorous dialogue presents a child’s puzzlement about family relationships and household arrangements, ending with a teasing parental response.

A pseudo-scientific and ethnographic essay speculates about the flavor and tenderness of human flesh, comparing it with animal meats and referring to reports of cannibalism and travelers’ accounts.

A series of anecdotal sketches set in the city’s hidden quarters, depicting encounters involving drinking, women, deception, and the precarious social world around illicit entertainment. The piece presents the urban back alleys as a space of sexual commerce, u...

A discussion-format feature from the magazine’s “Y-section,” combining an anecdote about nightlife and sexual behavior with broader reflections and opinion prompts concerning intimate conduct, social attitudes, and sexual knowledge. Its participatory, conversa...

A sensational erotic-crime episode recounts a woman’s encounter with a threatening man, culminating in an attempted act of resistance with an improvised weapon. The narrative combines sexual menace, suspense, and physical struggle.

Gotō Fumio examines changing attitudes toward female sexuality by comparing modern girls with representations of women in erotic books from earlier periods. The essay discusses precocious sexual awareness, the weakening of traditional restraints, and the effec...

A color frontispiece for “The Naked Witch” depicts a nude woman in an intimate interior, accompanied by erotic prose invoking mirrored rooms, duplicated bodies, and a fantastical “naked witch.”

A full-page color illustration shows an intimate encounter between a reclining traditionally dressed woman and a man in Japanese clothing, with a sheathed sword visible beside him.

A color erotic frontispiece depicts two women in a traditional Japanese interior, posed intimately beside a low table laden with food. The vertical caption presents the scene as the arrival of a “peach-colored inspector.”

A color dramatic illustration shows two partially undressed women in a room divided by a sliding screen, with one woman watching or confronting the other. The surrounding Japanese text frames the scene as an emotionally charged story of desire, jealousy, and r...

A photographic feature presenting nude female performers in a sequence of posed and dance-like studio images. Japanese captions emphasize movement, bodily form, and the visual appeal of the performers, with several portraits and group compositions.

A humorous miscellany presented as a circular-board column, combining satirical topical notes, comic reports, school and workplace anecdotes, domestic jokes, and reader-style question-and-answer exchanges. Its humor frequently turns on everyday social tensions...

A sensational illustrated feature about a man absorbed in collecting nude photographs and discussing the women, settings, and circumstances represented in his collection. The narrative explores erotic image-making, voyeuristic desire, photographic fantasy, and...

An erotic comic fiction follows a young physician and the women connected with a psychiatric and venereal-disease hospital, mixing medical examinations, ward life, flirtation, jealousy, and sexual intrigue. The episodic narrative satirizes doctors, nurses, pat...

A humorous “fake news” feature presents a series of invented reports and comic anecdotes involving public figures, officials, social scandals, and absurd incidents. Its mock-news format uses gossip, parody, and exaggeration for satirical entertainment.

An Edo-period historical fiction follows the arrival of a secret bakufu inspector in the Yamato Koriyama domain, throwing the lord’s officials into fear and suspicion. They attempt to discover the inspector’s identity and undermine the investigation through su...

A fictionalized dialogue and romantic episode considers whether engaged couples should permit sexual intimacy before marriage. The narrative explores desire, restraint, emotional uncertainty, and competing expectations surrounding premarital physical relations...

A sequence of sensational urban erotic vignettes portraying clandestine affairs, prostitution, sexual bargaining, and comic or tragic encounters among city dwellers. The episodes emphasize the anonymity, commercial pressures, and emotional disquiet of modern m...

An erotic narrative set against a Siberian frontier of military work camps and remote settlements, where labor, money, and institutional power shape access to women and sexual relationships. The story follows Okyanska and several men through seduction, jealous...

A first-person nocturnal vignette about wandering through postwar Tokyo, combining nightlife, encounters with women, sexual fantasy, and reflections prompted by popular films and urban entertainment. The piece presents the city as a setting of transient pleasu...

An illustrated serialized fiction follows office worker Miyazaki Shōzō and Haruko through an emotionally volatile relationship shaped by attraction, jealousy, social expectations, and questions of marriage. Their exchanges and confrontations explore gendered r...

A humorous illustrated marriage report presented through comic dialogue and mock interviews. It jokes about courtship, newlywed expectations, domestic roles, appearance, drinking, and sexual relationships.

An erotic melodrama follows a young model whose relationship with her teacher and other men becomes entangled in desire, jealousy, possessiveness, and physical coercion. The story treats the female body—especially the breast—as a focus of artistic scrutiny, er...

A melodramatic revenge story centered on marital betrayal, jealousy, and concealed sexual relationships. As suspicion and resentment intensify, the characters manipulate one another through confrontations, letters, and calculated acts of retaliation.

An episodic erotic feature portraying three experienced seducers and their encounters with women in cafés, hotels, baths, and other social settings. Through dialogue and illustrative scenes, it emphasizes flirtation, sexual confidence, romantic maneuvering, an...

A detailed account of Kyoto’s Gion geisha district follows maiko and geisha life around Hanamikoji, including dance training, dress, etiquette, teahouse work, patrons, earnings, and the transition from apprenticeship to professional performance. It presents th...

An illustrated essay responding to readers about “female beauty” examines the relationship between natural and artificial beauty, static bodily form and beauty in movement, and the aesthetic presentation of the nude body. Its discussion ranges from artistic te...

A sensational urban tale follows Sanpei and Namie through Tokyo’s nightlife, illicit encounters, jealousy, deception, and escalating sexual intrigue. The story moves among bars, back streets, rented rooms, and the city’s shadowy entertainment world.

A melodramatic story set in a working-class urban neighborhood centers on Kaneda, Fumihiko, Shimizu, and their associates amid romance, poverty, labor organizing, and tensions between workers and company authority. Illustrated scenes emphasize intimate encount...

A true-crime narrative follows Misako, a young woman from a respectable family, whose petty shoplifting and efforts to conceal it lead to blackmail, sexual exploitation, and a murder case. The account reconstructs the people, hotel encounters, evidence, and po...

A sensational first-person reportage visits postwar urban venues of sexual entertainment, describing performers, customers, backstage arrangements, erotic games, and encounters in hotels and nightlife districts. The illustrated feature combines voyeuristic tra...

An erotic psychological melodrama centered on Shizuko, Sonoko, and their male companions. Romantic longing, secrecy, jealousy, financial vulnerability, and shifting sexual relationships lead to increasingly tense confrontations and emotional disillusionment.

A first-person maritime erotic-horror narrative involving a sailor, a ship’s captain, and the captain’s daughter Yoshiko. Desire, coercion, violence, murder, death, and uncanny imagery unfold aboard and around a vessel, culminating in disturbing reflections on...

A comic erotic domestic tale about a married couple whose intimate life is disrupted when their landlady and others spy on them. Their attempts to find privacy lead to further misunderstandings and embarrassing exposure.

An erotic supernatural tale in which two men encounter a beautiful, mysterious woman—or women—near a river and become ensnared by a flower spirit’s seductive power. Vines, apparitions, dreams, and bodily peril blur the boundary between rural landscape and erot...

An erotic supernatural tale in which Ryoji becomes captivated by the image of Takie appearing in a mirror. Their growing obsession blurs the boundary between reflection, fantasy, and physical encounter, leading to jealousy, forbidden intimacy, and emotional up...

A closing miscellany of reader entertainments, including shogi problems, answer sections, riddles, quizzes, and word or picture puzzles. The page functions as a participatory recreational feature inviting readers to solve problems and compare responses.

An opening color photographic feature depicting an adult female model in staged BDSM scenes involving rope bondage, restraints, blindfolding, gagging, and suspension-style positioning. The imagery emphasizes ritualized humiliation, physical vulnerability, and...

A photographic feature presenting two staged suspension-torment poses of a bound adult female model, using rope restraints and immobilizing body positions as the central visual motif.