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Setsushun Haruka’s illustrated erotic fiction follows publishers, executives, and their associates through blackmail, sexual coercion, captivity, violence, and elaborate restraint fantasies.

A young female telephone operator recounts discovering her masochistic desires through the magazine and developing an emotionally intense, same-sex relationship with S, including experiments in restraint and submission before their eventual separation.

This fictional narrative follows Maki, a forceful woman moving through postwar Japanese and military-associated settings, whose unusual strength and “iron finger” enable her to dominate, punish, and humiliatingly overcome men and other antagonists.

A film commentary surveys memorable cruel and torturous scenes from Japanese cinema, especially period films, emphasizing the visual staging of suffering, punishment, and sadistic spectacle.

A serialized erotic fiction follows Akemi, a stage performer whose role as a female thief leads to increasingly elaborate bondage, restraint, punishment, and coercive performances before a violent resolution.

This historical erotic tale centers on Edo-period physician Sugita Genpaku and an anatomical dissection, blending medical curiosity, morbid romance, and elaborate scenes of restraint and suffering.

Presented as a wife’s account, this narrative describes married domestic life shaped by a husband’s controlling fetishism, including prescribed kimono and underwear, bondage, humiliation, and eroticized restraint.

A serialized SM story follows enslaved and captive characters subjected to confinement, restraints, coercive discipline, and sadistic domestic control, with recurring tensions between submission, escape, and ownership.

An illustrated essay examines erotic fixation on women’s legs and bodily form in relation to sadistic desire, using photographic examples and speculative psychological classification.

This section presents an impure-sacred-object fantasy built around a women’s toilet and voyeuristic or fetishistic workplace humor, followed by masochistic fantasy involving female authority, enforced service, and horse riding.

A serialized erotic fantasy follows girls drawn into a sinister religious institution, where coercive priests and ritualized worship subject them to captivity, punishment, humiliation, and violent sacrificial scenarios. The illustrated narrative builds a grote...

A monochrome erotic illustration depicts a man restraining and tending to a reclining woman in an enclosed room, under the heading “Neck-Turning Doll.”

A monochrome erotic illustration shows a woman bound amid dense foliage or refuse while a masked, formally dressed man watches from behind a wall, contrasting beauty with a foul environment.

A monochrome erotic illustration depicts a woman bound to the framework of a large revolving wheel while a man observes from below, emphasizing immobilization and perilous positioning.

A full-page erotic illustration presents a reclining woman and kneeling male figure in a staged, sexually charged encounter, captioned as a greeting.

This illustrated wartime tragic narrative portrays the final moments of a young female volunteer corps member in a rocky setting, with a sword beside her.

An erotic illustration depicts a woman tightly bound with rope while subjected to smoke torture, emphasizing punishment and restrained vulnerability.

A staged scene depicts a man confronting a seated, gagged woman in an atmosphere of threatened captivity and control.

A staged erotic tableau shows a man standing beside a woman bound and gagged against a doorway, presenting her as an object under his control.

A photographic portfolio follows a woman in theatrical Japanese dress as she is gagged, stripped of layers, and progressively tied to trees and restrained outdoors in a pantomime-like sequence.

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman immobilized in elaborate rope arrangements and large padded ring-like restraints, emphasizing bodily confinement and breathless theatrical poses.

A staged photographic feature presents models tightly enclosed in rubber coverings and bindings, focusing on the tactile, adhesive, and fetishistic qualities of rubber restraint.

A staged erotic photo sequence presents a woman enacting a fantasy of female seppuku with a sword, candlelit theatrical framing, ritualized kneeling poses, and simulated bodily peril.

A photographic feature depicts a woman directing and physically controlling a bound male partner in a series of staged outdoor scenes, presenting subordination as pleasurable.

Photographs show a restrained woman lying beneath a weighted Go board and its pieces, emphasizing the physical pressure and immobilization produced by the bondage apparatus.

Abe Storie’s fictional narrative follows students and staff at a coercive slave academy where new pupils are ranked, trained, punished, and subjected to an elaborate hierarchy of discipline, favoritism, and domination.

A serialized erotic-fiction installment combines an Edo-period tale of betrayal, captivity, binding, stabbing, and retaliatory punishment with a modern medical narrative about artificial insemination, bodily control, and experimental reproduction. The linked s...

Mōri Ritsuo argues against a child-welfare council’s recommendation targeting the magazine, defending erotic publishing as a form of expression and criticizing censorship based on claims of harm to youth. He discusses editorial responsibility, public morality,...

A first-person confessional essay set around Ginza nightlife recounts conversations and encounters involving a hostess known as Madam, moving between stock-market speculation, fortune-telling, bodily talk, and erotic intimacy. The piece blends urban entertainm...

A first-person confession recounts a woman’s enthusiasm for horseback riding, riding clothes, and the psychological excitement associated with equestrian scenes and encounters at a riding club.

This serialized SM fiction follows a young male captive forced into domestic labor and subjected to restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and domination by women who control his movements and daily life.

A fetish memoir recalls an earlier fascination with an older woman, presented through nostalgic dialogue and an accompanying erotic illustration.

A confessional erotic narrative follows a woman trapped in a degrading marriage and her encounters with bondage, humiliation, and sadomasochistic desire as she seeks a way out of her familiar emotional and sexual hell.

This letter responds to a woman’s account of an attempted ritual disembowelment, reflecting on female seppuku, samurai honor, bodily pain, and the erotic fascination such death imagery held for the writer.

A confessional masochistic narrative traces a man’s fixation on female cruelty from childhood fantasies through humiliating relationships, culminating in scenes of female domination, bondage, and punishment.

A confessional essay recounts the author’s encounters with women who eroticize domestic discipline, humiliation, and physical punishment, including scenes of marital and household abuse framed through sexual psychology.

An illustrated first-person-style feature about a circus troupe’s daughter presents acrobatic performance, bodily display, rigorous training, and eroticized scenes of control, chastisement, and staged submission.

An essay and accompanying male nude image examine the Japanese fundoshi loincloth, its styles and practical use, and its links to masculine bodily display, tradition, and erotic appeal.

A first-person reminiscence describes a women’s sumo troupe and the spectacle of its matches, including the wrestlers’ techniques, physicality, and audience response.

A purported record of a women’s sumo event in Imari recounts the competitors, bouts, techniques, and local exhibition setting in documentary-style detail.