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A first-person couples memoir recounts a married pair’s gradual awakening to sadomasochistic play and the escalation of their shared experiments. The illustrated narrative includes rope bondage, spanking, blindfolding, forced poses, and negotiated or resisted...

A photographic BDSM travelogue follows Tomoko from Tokyo to Osaka and Kyoto, documenting hotel-room scenes and the equipment, settings, and routines used during her training. The narrative describes escalating bondage, restraint, sensory stimulation, impact pl...

A reader-correspondence section featuring letters from S&M enthusiasts across Japan. Contributors discuss bondage practice and photography, share personal experiences and requests for exchanges or advice, and participate in the magazine’s network of readers an...

A mixed reader-and-community feature presenting personal notices, requests for S&M partners, bondage photographs and illustrations, and reports on specialized rooms and equipment. The section also includes reader commentary and promotional material oriented to...

An editorial apologizes for production and editorial shortcomings in the previous issue, including improperly trimmed pages, and explains the launch of the special S&M issue as part of a broader rethinking of the magazine’s direction. It discusses declining ci...

A richly illustrated survey of erotic and “fūzoku” art, combining historical paintings, prints, and staged photographs with commentary on sexual desire, seduction, exhibitionism, self-love, and changing ideals of male and female sexuality. The feature juxtapos...

An illustrated feature presenting three depictions of women subjected to sexual coercion or torment, including scenes of pursuit, restraint, and assault drawn from historical Japanese-style imagery. Captions and accompanying text emphasize the contrast between...

A historical account of torture and interrogation practices imposed on women imprisoned at Kodenmachō during the Edo period. Drawing on criminal records and related sources, it describes procedures such as restraint, water torture, beatings, and other forms of...

An essay on the appeal of risky amusements and transgressive behavior among modern young women, especially students. It examines thrill-seeking through nightlife, dancing, flirtation, fashion, swimming, and other activities, presenting these behaviors as produ...

An essay on male-love cafés as social spaces for men attracted to men, describing their clientele, coded categories, urban locations, manners, and changing place in postwar Japanese nightlife. It combines sociological commentary with literary and visual refere...

An illustrated essay comparing contemporary and historical forms of sexualized torment, bondage, and punishment. It contrasts modern fetish practices and imagery with older Japanese disciplinary and torture methods, focusing on bodily control, humiliation, and...

A satirical account of young women and men navigating modern Tokyo’s dating and sexual culture. Through encounters involving university students, nightlife, drinking, fashion, and changing courtship expectations, it contrasts contemporary urban behavior with o...

An erotic narrative centered on a couple’s private room, where artistic imagery, bodily display, restraint, and psychological domination become intertwined. The accompanying illustrations and prose explore sadomasochistic desire, fetishism, voyeurism, and uneq...

A social commentary on office girls and other young women whose modern identities are expressed through Western dress, automobiles, cafés, and rendezvous culture. Through anecdotes and satirical observations, it examines consumer aspirations, class display, fl...

A report and interview-style discussion of married women who terminate pregnancies, presenting personal cases and medical perspectives on the reasons, procedures, costs, and consequences of abortion. The article emphasizes poverty, family responsibilities, hea...

A decadent erotic fiction centered on Yukari, a beautiful young wife whose sensual presence fascinates and destabilizes the people around her. Set amid elite domestic and tea-room environments, the narrative develops through marital tension, voyeuristic fascin...

An investigative feature on women and commercial sex in Tokyo’s postwar red-light districts, including the organization of brothels, recruitment and treatment of women, customer behavior, and the economic and social conditions surrounding the trade. Interviews...

A fictionalized first-person wartime confession in which a Japanese military man recounts the capture, interrogation, torture, and sexual abuse of a Chinese woman, alongside the complicity of other soldiers. The narrative emphasizes brutality, coercive militar...

An illustrated literary feature presenting a series of episodes and observations about married women, focusing on their domestic circumstances, appearance, relationships, desire, and encounters with men. The piece blends social commentary with melodramatic and...

A heavily illustrated fantasy scene titled “The Chair of Needles,” depicting a woman bound or restrained on an ornate chair amid needle-like objects. The accompanying prose frames the image as a frightening, surreal, eroticized scenario involving vulnerability...

A fictional account of young men navigating Tokyo’s cinemas, cafés, shops, and nightlife, focusing on their striking appearance, fashionable self-presentation, rivalry, and attraction. The story explores the social performance of masculine beauty and the fasci...

An illustrated historical feature presenting ten forms of punishment used in Edo-period Japan. The sequence depicts bound and publicly exposed figures undergoing harsh corporal and humiliating penalties, emphasizing the spectacle and severity of premodern crim...

A journalist reports on encounters with women seeking spouses through a marriage consultation bureau, describing their personal circumstances, appearance, expectations, and interactions with prospective matches. The piece also examines matchmaking advertisemen...

An erotic suspense narrative set around a mysterious household in which a woman becomes entangled in coercive encounters involving male authority, surveillance, punishment, and sexual domination. Repeated scenes of bondage, whipping, humiliation, fear, and psy...

Nakano Eizō discusses erotic implements through historical anecdotes, changing sexual customs, and contemporary examples, considering their uses, appeal, social context, and potential dangers. The essay also comments on the movement from handmade or traditiona...

A mixed illustrated erotic narrative about the pleasures and anxieties of peeping, told through recollections of voyeuristic encounters in domestic and public settings. Its episodes trace sexual curiosity from childhood into adulthood, emphasizing forbidden ob...

A criminological and social analysis of postwar sex crimes, arguing that social upheaval, weakened moral restraints, and changing youth culture contributed to sexual offenses. It surveys cases involving rape, sexual assault, murder, juvenile offenders, and oth...

A first-person lament by a man describing his attraction to other men, his difficulty finding companionship, and the loneliness and stigma produced by social prejudice. The mixed text and illustrations portray homosexual desire, urban nightlife, attempts to me...

A dramatic account centered on a traditional Japanese dance performance of “Yasuna Kyōran,” describing rehearsal, stage performance, and the complicated relationship between a dance teacher and dancer. The narrative also explores erotic tension, gender-role am...

An erotic melodrama about a troubled marriage in which suspicion, sexual jealousy, infidelity, and emotional instability culminate in the wife’s flight. The story develops through intimate encounters, confrontation, and escalating threats within a precarious u...

A reader-correspondence section addressing women’s same-sex love, with personal accounts and questions about attraction, intimacy, secrecy, and emotional uncertainty. The editors respond in an advisory and supportive tone, inviting readers to submit further ex...

A male same-sex correspondence section presenting autobiographical accounts of attraction, relationships, sexual experiences, and emotional conflict from adolescence through adulthood. Editorial commentary considers the psychology of male homosexuality, social...

A psychological mystery set around an isolated Karuizawa villa, whose history includes the delayed discovery of a German former owner’s suicide. Marital jealousy, eerie apparitions, paintings, and the presence of a dog blur the boundaries between memory, hallu...

An autobiographical recollection tracing the author’s early fascination with cruelty—from tormenting goldfish and other small creatures to increasingly deliberate acts of sadistic violence. The narrative presents these memories through vivid animal and domesti...

A personal record of sadistic experiences and fantasies, including episodes of intimidation, physical punishment, and violent spectacle. The author also reflects on the emergence of his adult sadistic sexuality, attributing its development in part to a former...

A photographic feature presenting staged scenes of women restrained, bound, and subjected to corporal punishment in domestic and theatrical settings. The accompanying presentation treats cruelty and physical vulnerability as fetishized visual spectacle.

A photo-and-illustration feature framed as an account of American female sadism, with scenes involving teachers, students, discipline, buttock beating, and elaborate restraint. Its images and captions emphasize humiliation, exhibition, and the sexualization of...

Nakagawa Ayako’s illustrated and photographic feature depicts women bound, gagged, immobilized, and displayed in scenes of forced submission, distress, and punishment. The recurring motif is the “tears” and facial expression of a restrained subject within stag...

An illustrated erotic feature depicting a woman in elaborate rope bondage and staged restraint scenarios, accompanied by Japanese commentary on the scenes and their performers. The sequence emphasizes theatrical posing, physical display, and sadomasochistic im...

A single erotic illustration by Kitahara Tamaki showing a nude woman accompanied or confronted by snakes and a partially visible male figure. The composition uses the snake as a motif of danger, sensuality, and fantasy.