Article Translations

An illustrated essay reflects on historical torture and punishment scenes, discussing how violent restraint, captivity, and suffering were transformed into eroticized imagery in modern specialist publishing. It examines six accompanying illustrations of women...

A first-person monologue follows a boy’s adolescent sexual awakening, centered on his fascination with the bodies of older rugby players and his secret voyeuristic fantasies, same-sex desire, and conflicted feelings of shame and longing.

A historical crime narrative set in the Edo period recounts the brutal investigation, torture, confession, execution, and aftermath of a couple accused of murdering an infant, emphasizing sensational punishment practices and public spectacle.

A purported masochist’s notebook presents episodes of coercive marital sexuality, humiliation, fetishistic bodily practices, and sadomasochistic fantasy, followed by commentary and bibliographic notices on related erotic literature and imagery.

An open letter by a self-described masochist seeks the elusive “B,” presenting detailed physical and psychological portraits of the correspondents and their desired sadomasochistic relationship. The piece blends personal disclosure, erotic fantasy, and a publi...

This extended historical essay portrays Oda Nobunaga as an “inverted hero,” examining his political and military career through claims about cruelty, sadism, religious hostility, strategic deception, and exceptional psychological temperament. Historical anecdo...

An essay-review considers modern masochism as an artistic and cultural form, examining how masochistic desire and imagery are represented and interpreted.

This serialized fiction follows Aware Seiichirō and his wife Myōko through a volatile marriage in which drinking, jealousy, domestic conflict, and escalating bondage reshape their relationship and power dynamics.

A reportage and photographic feature profiles bound models including Murata Namiko and Sakaguchi Rieko, describing staged rope-restraint sessions, outdoor and water-related settings, photographic direction, and the models’ responses to the work.

An editorial open letter presents the magazine as a refuge and meeting place for readers drawn to unconventional literature, arguing for experimental, erotic, detective, and otherwise “heretical” writing while inviting readers to contribute.

This illustrated discussion examines bondage drawings and the expressive possibilities of rope, cords, and varied restraint positions, linking technical ingenuity with erotic atmosphere and visual composition.

A reader-correspondence section gathers letters about erotic illustrations, bondage imagery, sexual preferences, and readers’ responses to the magazine, emphasizing ongoing participation and exchange within its readership.

An essay considers the role of “abnormal” literature in representing socially forbidden desire, psychological conflict, bodily cruelty, and the tensions between idealism and erotic longing.

A discussion of tight binding examines rope restraint as an erotic practice, including binding positions, bodily presentation, technical arrangement, and the visual appeal of bound bodies in photographs.

A multi-page reader-correspondence section gathers letters on masochism, fetishism, sodomy, enema practices, erotic photography, bondage, and readers’ reactions and submissions to the magazine. It documents the participatory exchange linking personal experienc...

A masochist correspondence section discusses abdominal-cutting and seppuku fantasies, pain, blood, restraint, and related erotic imaginings, alongside notices for bondage-themed films and agency materials.

Readers exchange accounts and fantasies concerning fetish interests, including abdominal cutting, women’s feet and white socks, bodily appearance, erotic imagery, and related sexual preferences, with editorial replies and publication notes.

The editors solicit manuscripts, illustrations, photographs, letters, and ideas on fetish and SM subjects while announcing publication and subscription information for the magazine.

An erotic illustration feature depicting Reiko in a series of unusual nude poses and stylized bodily positions.

A staged outdoor bondage photograph shows Nanako Murata wrapped in a cape and rope-bound in a forest, with her hands tied behind her back.

A photographic pose collection presents model Chieko Hagi in multiple tightly bound and gagged positions, including seated, kneeling, and floor-bound arrangements.

A photographic feature presents women bound with rope in a series of posed scenes emphasizing elaborate restraint, bodily immobilization, and erotic fantasy.

A staged photographic feature depicts women controlling and restraining men in seated and kneeling positions, foregrounding female authority and positional bondage.

An outdoor photographic sequence titled “Horse Riding” portrays women using ropes and body positioning to restrain men in grassland settings, including horse-like and mounted tableaux.

A staged photographic scene presents simulated seppuku with a genuinely sharp short blade, emphasizing the appearance of danger while explaining that the flexible skin is not pierced when the knife is lightly pressed against it.

Photographs depict a dominant woman using a kneeling nude man as a human support and directing his behavior, including having him remain still and putting socks on him.

This photographic feature presents nude and partially dressed figures in posed scenes, including undressing and an erotic tableau involving two bodies.

A photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of cruel female authority, including a mistress controlling, humiliating, and punishing submissive male slaves with poses, whips, and enforced kneeling.

A staged erotic photograph depicts a nearly nude woman secured in a heavy wooden restraint structure with chained wrists and ankles, evoking captivity and bondage apparatus.

An erotic illustration portrays a chained female slave receiving an order to return to work under threat of renewed whipping, combining captivity, racialized servitude, and corporal punishment.

An erotic illustration depicts a lover confronting and threatening a woman who has betrayed him, with the accompanying dialogue demanding money for his silence.

An erotic illustration titled “Dalma and the Fashion Model” humorously contrasts a fashion model with a rounded, doll-like male figure in an intimate embrace.

A series of eroticized illustrations presents four interrogation-torture scenarios attributed to special police questioning a suspected thought criminal, including suspension, forced drinking, finger compression, and burning with newspaper.

An erotic illustration set in a mountain villa depicts a kimono-clad woman dominating and threatening a man with a sword while he lies restrained on the floor.

A samurai-era erotic illustration portrays a woman in a state of undress being confronted and controlled by an armed man, evoking punishment and sexual coercion.

This illustrated water-torture scene presents a captive woman subjected to drowning or submersion threats in a secret room, alongside text describing kidnapped women being traded by slave merchants.

A staged photographic scene presents a frightened woman restrained on the floor, evoking vulnerability, fear, and sadistic domination.

A staged photographic sequence depicts a nude woman enacting the solemn and violent drama of seppuku, emphasizing theatrical fear, bloodshed, and sacrifice.

A photographic feature shows a nude woman wrapped in a thin cord before a lattice screen, highlighting intricate rope patterns, bodily pressure, and the marks of restraint.

A photographic feature presents a woman bound with rope and posed as a decorative human ornament in a series of staged kinbaku scenes.