Article Translations

An essay examines bondage scenes in Western paintings and related films, comparing how tied, restrained, and imperiled bodies are staged through composition, props, lighting, and dramatic action. It treats these images as part of a broader history of erotic vi...

This erotic fiction follows Tanida’s increasingly controlling encounter with Tsubomi, a woman he meets while traveling, as flirtation develops into prolonged bondage, humiliation, and coerced sexual play in domestic and public settings. The narrative emphasize...

In a personal response about achieving a forty-five-centimeter “wasp waist,” the writer describes corset wearing, tightlacing routines, bodily discomfort, and the emotional appeal of reshaping the torso through sustained discipline. The account presents waist...

A historical essay on Oda Nobunaga examines his authoritarian samurai ethos, reputation for cruelty, executions, military campaigns, and ambition to conquer China, presenting his violence and downfall through a psychologically and sexually charged portrait.

An illustrated erotic narrative centers on a woman’s exposed buttocks, voyeuristic observation, bodily humiliation, and the violent cutting of an X-shaped mark, blending sensational storytelling with fetish imagery.

A humorous illustrated essay debates women’s abdominal shape, fatness, pregnancy, clothing, and bodily exposure while discussing changing beauty standards and presenting stylized visual examples of female bodies.

A two-panel erotic adaptation of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels shows a nude giant woman restrained and surrounded by Lilliputian people, with the miniature society examining her body.

An illustrated erotic fantasy depicts a female missionary or trainer captured and restrained in a fantastical Lilliput-like setting, combining narrative captions with staged bondage imagery.

This extended fictional work follows Yūko through troubled romantic and sexual relationships, confessional exchanges, fantasies of isolation, and episodes of coercion, restraint, humiliation, and domination. The narrative repeatedly examines the psychological...

Satō Masuo offers a literary-critical theory of the “abnormal novel,” classifying its treatments of sadism, masochism, fetishism, and erotic transformation while discussing the genre’s narrative techniques, psychological appeal, and social significance.

A first-person captivity memoir recounts ten months spent in a prison environment, focusing on the medical department, inmates, guards, institutional routines, illness, food, and the narrator’s shifting relationships with staff and fellow prisoners.

An illustrated practical feature presents a woman’s methods of punishing and disciplining a male partner through commands, bondage, restraint, corporal punishment, teasing, humiliation, and staged erotic role-play.

A sexological advice article examines a woman’s same-sex desire and relationship with a female partner, particularly the erotic and relational significance of enemas, while considering how the situation affects her marriage and future choices.

A short erotic narrative depicts a woman in training clothes undergoing belly-cutting as a stylized act of violent punishment and sexualized submission.

This serialized erotic story follows Sumie and Nobuo through a volatile relationship involving marital conflict, coercive sexual games, bondage, humiliation, and escalating danger, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

A first-person notebook-style account describes a masochist’s fantasies, desires, sexual experiences, and reflections on fetishistic relationships, punishment, social stigma, and the search for sympathetic companionship.

A first-person erotic narrative follows an artist’s increasingly sadistic experiments with a female model, who endures elaborate restraints and torture while laughing, accompanied by an erotic illustration of a woman bound to a guillotine-like apparatus.

A dark erotic narrative depicts a boy or young man subjected to authoritarian captivity, interrogation, forced exposure, physical punishment, and humiliating restraint in a prison- or institutional setting.

This autobiographical fetish account traces the author’s long-standing erotic fascination with women’s loincloths and moxa treatment, recalling domestic and school-age encounters in which clothing, bodily inspection, and therapeutic pain become sexualized.

An extended first-person erotic essay describes the author’s fixation on tying women, recounting fantasies and experiences involving rope wrapping, waist binding, concealment, and the visual appeal of restrained female bodies.

A personal erotic confession and reader-style exchange centers on the desire to obtain, wear, and imagine women’s underwear, discussing cross-dressing, intimate clothing, secrecy, and fetishistic fascination.

This essay praises the erotic and aesthetic qualities of the traditional Japanese fundoshi, describing its fit, tying, bodily contours, and heightened sensual effect in everyday and bathing contexts.

A conversational erotic anecdote set around a rural social gathering describes flirtation, drinking, sexual pursuit, and the manipulation of appearances and reputation, accompanied by a staged image of a woman in traditional dress.

This fictional account follows a hostess whose relationships with male customers become entangled with money, sexual access, jealousy, secrecy, and competing expectations of affection and marriage.

A translated case-based essay examines allegedly cruel women through historical and contemporary examples of female violence, domestic abuse, punishment, sadism, and social responses to women who inflict suffering.

A first-person sadomasochistic narrative traces a woman’s experiences of abuse, coercion, and punishment as she moves from the position of victim toward sadistic control, accompanied by illustrations of violent restraint and corporal domination.

This historical column surveys sensational Meiji-era newspaper reports involving domestic conflict, sexual scandal, violence, female resistance, and unusual crimes, presenting them as evidence of changing social and sexual attitudes.

Framed as the confession of a male sodomist, this erotic narrative recounts a night at a Japanese hot-spring city involving the pursuit of male companionship, clandestine desire, and sexual encounters in public and private spaces.

A first-person erotic narrative portrays a young man’s intense submission to his father’s harsh discipline, especially through scenes involving horse riding, clothing, and corporal punishment.

An autobiographical confession traces the narrator’s developing attraction to men from childhood through military service, describing same-sex longing, fantasy, and emotionally charged encounters with male comrades.

This short illustrated essay explores the narrator’s fascination with sadism, presenting sadistic desire as a psychologically compelling erotic impulse.

An editorial miscellany on fetishism surveys unusual fixations involving body parts—especially ears and earwax—and also presents imaginative erotic anecdotes and reader-contributed fantasies.

This essay examines actresses’ bare feet in detail, discussing their shapes, toes, size, and the erotic fascination they can provoke in spectators and photographers.

Yuriko recounts her life and sexual exploitation in a first-person record, moving from her upbringing into nude photographic modeling, nude performance, and other forms of commercialized erotic display and service.

A love-letter-style piece addressed to model Nagase Akiko, reflecting on her published image, physical presence, posing, and the charged relationship between model and male observer.

An illustrated survey of bondage scenes in films, magazines, and theater, discussing how restraint, danger, eroticism, and dramatic staging are represented across popular media.

A long experience-based narrative set around a hospital ward, portraying impoverished and institutionalized patients, harsh treatment, sexual tensions, and the patients’ collective efforts to demand humane reforms. It culminates in formal demands and an agreem...

An observational essay on a Chinese acrobat troupe and circus performers, focusing on their extraordinary feats, bodily discipline, costumes, and the spectators’ fascinated response to their bodies in performance.

A continuation of the author’s survey of films that portray faint or muted forms of masochism, discussing female characters, eroticized vulnerability, humiliation, and the suggestive emotional power of cinematic scenes.

A proposal soliciting reader ideas for the magazine’s third album, listing possible photographed bondage compositions and inviting contributions to shape the next collection.