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A photographic feature on rough-rope binding that depicts a woman restrained outdoors in several positions, emphasizing the coarse rope’s routing around the neck, limbs, and body.

A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman gagged and secured in a forced split-leg position using ropes and a bench-like apparatus.

A staged scene presents a restrained woman being tormented through the application of moxibustion and heat-based pain.

A five-part series of erotic bondage illustrations by Ito Seiu depicts rope restraint and punitive torment, including human-bow binding, constriction, burning, and leech application.

A photographic portfolio by Ito Seiu depicts women in elaborate rope restraints, bamboo implements, gagging, and staged scenes of torment, accompanied by poetic captions emphasizing pain, vulnerability, and visual spectacle.

This illustrated historical erotic narrative follows a female ninja captured by Tokugawa retainers and subjected to successive scenes of binding, suspension, gagging, beating, and other ritualized punishments before her eventual submission.

The Readers’ Forum presents correspondence about the magazine’s erotic photographs, illustrations, themes, and production, including reader requests, evaluations, submissions, and discussion of future editorial directions.

A visual feature presenting newly released bondage photographs and restraint illustrations, including chained or otherwise restrained women, gagging, partnered bondage, and various elaborate restraint poses.

A seven-scene photographic feature depicting women subjected to staged torment through binding, suspension, whipping, fire-related punishment, and other coercive restraint scenarios.

A photographic feature depicts a woman held in the contorted ebi-zeme position, emphasizing her endurance of pain and eroticized restraint.

A photographic feature shows a woman rope-bound upright against a wooden fence in a forest setting, presenting outdoor restraint as a staged erotic scene.

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope among bamboo stalks, combining an outdoor kinbaku setting with exposed, immobilized posing.

A photographic feature presenting a woman posed in an old-fashioned rope-binding arrangement, emphasizing the visual mood and ritualized appearance of traditional restraint.

A photographic sequence shows a woman progressively or variously enveloped in thick rope aboard a boat and against maritime surroundings, framing rope restraint as an outdoor erotic spectacle.

A photographic portfolio depicts a woman restrained with leather straps in cross-like and other positional arrangements, accompanied by captions describing immobilization and the sensations of being bound.

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman restrained with rope to shelving boards in several reclining and folded positions, presenting the shelf as a bondage apparatus.

A photographic feature presents a woman in a white kimono seated and bound with rope in a traditional interior, emphasizing her composed posture, pale skin, and decorative surroundings.

A staged photographic scene shows a woman restrained on the floor beside a traditional paper lantern, with the fading lamplight and quiet room creating an atmosphere of secrecy and submission.

A two-page photographic feature depicts elaborately rope-bound women in stylized kneeling and seated positions, highlighting decorative rope patterns, patterned garments, and carefully composed restraint tableaux.

An erotic illustration presents two nude women intertwined in a visually puzzling configuration, evoking the title’s “ring” motif and the question of how their bodies are entangled.

A photographic feature depicts a woman in white subjected to rope bondage in a staged sequence, including seated and reclining positions, blindfolding, and progressively constrained poses.

This photographic feature stages a bound woman on a stone-patterned floor, showing varied reclining and contorted positions as the visual narrative develops around her restraint and vulnerability.

A photographic feature presents a woman reclining and posing in various suggestive postures on a couch, accompanied by brief Japanese commentary.

Photographs depict a woman in a disheveled yukata undergoing rope restraint, with the garment repeatedly opened or displaced to emphasize the staged bondage scene.

A photographic sequence depicts a nude woman tightly bound in an elaborate tortoiseshell-pattern rope configuration, emphasizing intricate body restraint and immobilized poses.

A photographic feature depicts a woman tied by the wrists to a transom, presenting several overhead suspension positions and close views of the rope work.

A multi-page photographic portfolio presents stylized bondage tableaux involving women and a man, including figures dressed in long robes or lingerie, seated or reclining in rope restraints, and scenes incorporating gagging and positional control.

A sensational visual feature presenting staged photographs, imported magazine imagery, and illustrations of bizarre giants, crushing scenes, captivity, and other extreme thrill-oriented fantasies.

Nishio Toshimaru discusses attempts to measure and classify sexual desire and behavior through bodily indicators and psychological observation, including the distinction between ordinary and excessive sexuality.

A sensational account of cruel sadists describing violent sexual impulses, murder, torture, and related cases through historical and contemporary examples, photographs, and illustrations.

Hongō Torao presents a first-person confession of his life as a sadistic yakuza, recounting violent, coercive, and sexually charged encounters shaped by criminal underworld experience.

Arakawa Tarō’s dark narrative follows a necrophilic man whose obsession with a dead woman develops into murder, corpse abuse, concealment, and eventual police investigation.

Satō Shigeo recounts his experiences tying and restraining a woman named Kinuko, describing their escalating bondage sessions, rope practices, bodily positioning, and the intimate dynamics surrounding them.

A criminological-style survey of sadism through reported crimes, recounting violent sexual assaults, mutilation, stabbing, and murder cases to discuss sadistic behavior and its motives.

A long-form serialized erotic fiction narrative in which a vengeful male figure subjects women to captivity, binding, beatings, humiliation, and other sadistic torments, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

A historical survey of Meiji-era sexual curiosities drawn from sensational newspaper-like crime accounts, including sexual violence, sadistic assaults, murder, and unusual erotic behavior.

A serialized exchange of letters between male and female participants recounts masochistic fantasies and encounters involving humiliation, restraint, bodily ordeals, and shifting sexual authority.

This illustrated account profiles a man tattooed across his entire body, describing his tattooing history, the social and erotic meanings of extensive Japanese tattooing, and related traditions and anecdotes.

A sensational historical survey describes unusual punishments and mutilations inflicted on male genitals, drawing on Chinese and Japanese examples, wartime stories, and accounts of castration and other bodily injuries.

A serialized erotic captivity narrative in which a woman is confined in a basement and subjected to hanging restraint, humiliation, and escalating punishment amid themes of revenge, secrecy, and psychological torment.