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Okumura Sekio’s essay argues that sadistic impulses are concealed within punishment and examines how cruelty is legitimized through law, religion, social morality, and the maintenance of order.

An illustrated historical survey of cruel punishments and executions worldwide, describing methods such as mutilation, impalement, burning, dismemberment, confinement, and other forms of bodily torture across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

A richly illustrated comparative account of punishments and interrogation practices, ranging from European and Japanese historical penalties to religious persecution, torture devices, execution methods, and mass beheading.

A dramatized historical prison diary recounts Hanai Oume’s confinement after a murder conviction, describing women’s prison administration, forced labor, solitary confinement, deprivation, beatings, and other severe disciplinary punishments in the Meiji era.

This illustrated historical survey examines punishment in Edo feudal society, presenting public and private executions and corporal penalties such as crucifixion, burning, hanging, stone-holding, branding, and other forms of judicial and military discipline.

A serialized wartime cruelty narrative follows military intelligence operations involving captured enemy agents, interrogation, disguise, confinement, and the punishment of a female spy, combining sensational espionage with eroticized coercion and captivity.

Abe Kidayoshi presents an eroticized historical narrative of Magdalena’s religious martyrdom, depicting her persecution, torture, and execution amid themes of faith, sin, and repentance.

An illustrated historical survey depicts various punishments and torture practices from earlier eras, emphasizing their severity through scenes of execution, bodily torment, and public cruelty.

Itō Seiu explains and illustrates numerous methods for tying women, covering rope techniques, restrictive positions, implements, and suspension in a detailed practical instructional feature.

An erotic fiction narrative follows Robert, a man drawn into escalating scenes of whipping, restraint, captivity, and domination involving women and institutional authority.

This illustrated erotic narrative depicts girls being captured, confined, disciplined, and subjected to punitive and exploitative treatment in a so-called pleasure district, including scenes framed as criminal punishment and experimentation.

A personal fetish essay explores the writer’s fascination with women’s nostrils, nasal breathing, facial expressions, and the visual angles produced by erotic posing, accompanied by illustrative imagery.

A first-person erotic confession recounts a sadistic encounter with a young maid who is confined, stripped, gagged, bound, and subjected to escalating humiliation and corporal abuse as an alleged “virgin sacrifice.”

This historical erotic fiction depicts the tyrannical Luo Wang and Peng Hou amid palace intrigue, with women and servants subjected to elaborate restraints, punitive torture, sexualized humiliation, and deadly violence.

The reader-salon section presents correspondence and editorial responses alongside reader-submitted erotic photographs, personal reports, publication requests, and notices about forthcoming features and products.

An editorial-office notice reflects on the issue’s cruelty-themed contents and strong reader response, announces expanded and forthcoming special issues, and invites readers to submit manuscripts, photographs, and other material while providing ordering inform...

A staged photographic and illustrated feature presents a red-shoed dominant woman exercising authority over a submissive male subject, emphasizing footwear and ritualized scenes of control.

A photographic vignette presents a woman admiring her unclothed reflection in a mirror, emphasizing self-absorption and sensual self-display.

A staged photographic feature depicts women in partially disarranged clothing and intimate poses, focusing on the sensuality of loosened garments and exposed bodies.

A photographic sequence portrays two women in an intimate bondage scenario, with rope restraint, entwined bodies, and shared erotic pleasure.

A staged erotic photograph presents a woman bound in rope and draped in a loosened red kimono, emphasizing solitary restraint and an atmosphere of quiet torment.

A photographic tableau of two women bound together depicts a coordinated rope-restraint pose framed as a “tight-binding duet.”

A multi-page photographic portfolio shows a sailor-uniformed model in various rope-bound poses, with the disordered uniform and exposed legs forming a central visual motif.

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied with her hands behind her back in domestic interiors, including scenes beside and atop a traditional Japanese nagahibachi brazier. The captions emphasize the discomfort and danger of being restrained on the h...

This photographic feature places a rope-bound nude woman in a grassy outdoor setting, showing her posed among the grass in various restrained positions. The captions stress the cold, exposed sensation of lying naked on the grass.

A staged photographic sequence shows a woman bound and gagged on and around a Western liquor stand, posed like a tropical fish trapped in an aquarium. The images emphasize captivity, immobilization, and the spectacle of the restrained female body in a domestic...

A photographic bondage feature presents a model wrapped and posed in elaborate rope restraints, emphasizing the luminous beauty of the bound body.

A photographic feature stages the model restrained across and around a go board, using the board, stones, and varied postures as elements of a torment-oriented bondage scene.

A photographic bondage feature places the model tied among firewood and in a wooded setting, highlighting the rough, prickling texture of the logs and the vulnerability of outdoor restraint.

A staged photographic feature depicts a woman stripped to a single garment and tightly rope-bound in a series of indoor positions, emphasizing immobilization, exposure, and shame.

Photographs show a model restrained with cords and straps that press into her skin, including tightly bound seated and standing poses against indoor and outdoor fixtures, with accompanying text stressing physical pressure and pain.

An outdoor bondage portfolio presents a woman in minimal clothing tied to trees and amid woodland vegetation or firewood, using kneeling and upright poses to emphasize rustic isolation and enforced exposure.

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied to a stair railing in several seated, kneeling, and reclined positions, emphasizing how the railing structures her restraint.

This staged photographic scene places a bound woman in a traditional alcove, showing varied rope positions against the architectural setting.

A photographic feature shows a woman restrained with straps and rope inside and beside a bathtub, stressing confinement and restricted movement in a cramped bathing setting.

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound in rope in reclining poses associated with intoxication, emphasizing staged bodily posture and sensory surrender.

A photographic demonstration presents several ways of binding a subject whose hands are crossed, showing different seated, standing, and crouched restrained positions.

An illustrated portfolio presents scenes of severe rope restraint and invented torture devices, including suspension, inversion, grinding mechanisms, and other forms of sadistic punishment imposed on a bound woman.

A photographic portfolio presents a woman modeling varied rope-bound and restrained poses, including self-binding, mirror viewing, kneeling positions, and staged domestic scenes.

An illustrated feature surveys unconventional erotic artworks depicting lesbian desire, female intimacy, voyeuristic spectatorship, and scenes of sexualized restraint.