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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.

An ongoing erotic novel centered on Chikako and her encounters in an artist’s studio, where modeling, voyeurism, coercion, and progressively severe restraint become intertwined. The installment develops a tense artist–model relationship and ends as a continuin...

An erotic fictional narrative set around a male teacher’s encounters with A-ko, a seventeen-year-old student. Across several chapters, classroom and private-room settings become stages for voyeuristic observation, sexual initiation, and an unequal teacher–stud...

A diary-style erotic story follows a man’s obsessive pursuit and surveillance of women, recording his movements, observations, and increasingly intimate encounters in urban and private settings. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the work’s themes of sta...

A serialized erotic narrative set in a private “voyeur’s room” depicts men observing, exposing, and sexually exploiting women through a series of encounters organized into numbered sections. Its illustrations emphasize nude bodies, forced intimacy, hidden spec...

A sexological and anecdotal account of unusual male same-sex desire and gendered sexual behavior. The discussion combines case-style observations with fictionalized or illustrative scenes involving erotic experimentation, cross-gender presentation, and social...

A first-person erotic confession about a man whose sexual fixation centers on an enema syringe and related medical procedures. The narrative presents fetishistic desire, repeated encounters with medical settings, and the tension between compulsive sexuality an...

A historical adventure narrative depicting the retreat and defeat of Aizu forces during the late-Edo civil wars, including the siege of Aizuwakamatsu Castle. It emphasizes battlefield confusion, samurai loyalty, wartime hardship, and the experiences of women a...

An erotic confessional narrative centered on a man’s fixation with rape fantasies and his encounters with women who become involved in coercive sexual situations. The piece presents sexual violence through the subjective language of fetishistic desire.

An erotic narrative about a woman’s gradual discovery and acceptance of masochistic desire through sexually dominant encounters, including restraint, spanking, and other forms of bodily control. It emphasizes sexual awakening and the changing power dynamics be...

An illustrated discussion of varied hanging punishments and suspension-based torments, combining historical commentary with descriptions and depictions of eroticized bodily restraint. The feature treats hanging, bondage, and staged physical suffering as visual...

An erotic seasonal vignette from the “Reiko’s Twelve Months” series, centered on the pine/New Year motif. The accompanying illustrations and narrative depict a sexual encounter moving between an interior setting and a pine-filled outdoor landscape.

An erotic supernatural story about Takashi and Michiko, whose doctor-patient relationship becomes entangled with hidden identity, psychological desire, and a strange fairy- or monster-like transformation. Dreamlike illustrations reinforce the story’s motifs of...

A sadistic erotic story explicitly framed as a “sadism story,” depicting a man’s coercive encounters with women and the sexualized torment of a virgin. Across its episodes, the narrative emphasizes domination, restraint, humiliation, and violence, accompanied...

A humorous first-person essay about the author’s fascination with toilets, recounting observations and experiences in factory and public lavatories. The piece combines scatological comedy with gendered restroom settings and sexually voyeuristic situations.

A continuation of a guide to male-oriented cafés and meeting places, describing venues, clientele, access routes, local atmospheres, and coded forms of recognition. Maps and hand-sign illustrations document the geography and social practices of Japan’s male ho...

An erotic illustrated narrative centered on coercive sexual domination, bondage, physical restraint, and humiliating treatment. Its prose and images emphasize sadomasochistic power relations and the victim’s ordeal.

An erotic first-person correspondence feature exploring women’s same-sex desire, intimate relationships, jealousy, and sexual experimentation. The prose is accompanied by highly sensual illustrations of nude and embracing women, presenting a stylized “Lesbos”...

A satirical survey imagines the difficulties of being married to a famous actress, emphasizing studio control, intrusive managers, financial dependence, jealousy, gossip, and the pressures of maintaining a star’s public image. Anecdotes about Japanese and fore...

This dark erotic fiction follows a young man whose developing same-sex desires lead him into male prostitution, exploitation, bondage, and increasingly violent sadomasochistic encounters. The narrative presents his sexuality through a sensationalized trajector...

A sensationally illustrated survey of corporal punishment and execution in Japanese history, describing crucifixion, suspension, mutilation, and other methods through anecdotes involving both male and female victims. The article repeatedly frames bondage and b...

An illustrated erotic-grotesque story centered on a man's compulsive pursuit of kissing, which turns encounters in entertainment and nightlife settings into acts of coercion, struggle, and injury. Its exaggerated violence and sexual obsession are treated with...

This erotic fiction follows a man drawn into male same-sex encounters centered on public toilets, domination, beatings, humiliation, and drinking urine. His increasingly extreme submission brings intense pleasure but ultimately ends in physical collapse and de...

An illustrated historical survey examines depictions of unconventional desire in Japanese erotic books and prints, including voyeurism, clandestine sex, grotesque transformations, necrophilia, and erotic dolls. It connects these motifs to Edo-period censorship...

An illustrated sensational miscellany combines grotesque fiction with commentary on sexual fixations, moving through episodes of bodily mutilation and cannibalism, a survey of voyeuristic behavior, graveyard horror, and a violent sadomasochistic encounter. Rec...

An erotic-grotesque tale follows several women whose intimate encounters escalate into ritualized domination involving restraint, burning, wounds, and blood. The narrative also plays with same-sex desire and ambiguity surrounding the characters’ sex and bodies...