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This multi-page biographical feature recounts episodes of courageous contemporary women, including a woman doctor who uses judo and physical force to confront and subdue male criminals and attackers.

A personal reminiscence of youthful fascination with onnagata performance, describing the author’s early encounters with female-role acting, theatrical makeup, feminine beauty, and the experience of performing women’s parts on stage.

An erotic fantasy narrated through a washerman’s fixation on women’s underwear, dirty garments, laundering, and the illicit pleasure associated with handling and imagining the wearer’s clothing.

A first-person account of discovering that a loved woman had previously appeared as a bondage model, prompting an obsessive search through old erotic magazines and feelings of jealousy, shock, and forbidden fascination.

The author responds enthusiastically to a reader interested in intense suspension scenes, discussing suspension arrangements and proposing ideas for staged hanging and restraint presentations.

A comic erotic dialogue depicts a female secretary reversing the office hierarchy by overpowering, humiliating, and demanding obedience from her company president.

This critical essay examines the erotic and grotesque imagery of a seppuku-centered illustrated narrative in which a young man and woman express love through ritualized abdominal cutting and mutual death. It considers the work’s historical-literary sources, vi...

An autobiographical hospital diary recounts the author’s prolonged treatment for kidney disease, including edema, strict salt restriction, injections, dietary routines, relapses, and eventual improvement, while emphasizing the emotional support exchanged with...

This feature presents short illustrated erotic narratives modeled on sensational newspaper reports, depicting nurses, girls, and other figures subjected to elaborate tying, gagging, forced postures, and staged scenes of restraint or captivity. Its visual and t...

A fictional account set in an underground special interrogation room depicts a woman subjected to coercive questioning, humiliation, forced undressing, binding, gagging, and prolonged positional restraint by male interrogators. The accompanying illustrations i...

An illustrated instructional feature on photographing kinbaku scenes, covering model direction, pose selection, camera and lighting choices, seasonal and outdoor conditions, and the practical challenges of producing convincing bondage images. The accompanying...

A wide-ranging reader-communications section presents letters about readers’ erotic and SM experiences, responses to magazine content, requests for advice and photographs, and exchanges among readers, alongside editorial replies, club notices, and publication...

A first-person account follows a woman born to a poor unmarried mother, adopted into a harsh household, and subjected to exploitation, humiliation, and punitive abuse that shape her later life.

A woman describes being introduced to a rubber-fetish club, where initiation, club rules, rubber garments and masks, staged demonstrations, and degrading bodily practices define the group’s erotic culture.

An illustrated fetish narrative celebrates rubber clothing and equipment through scenes of a woman wearing a complete waterproof outfit, mask, gloves, and belt while moving through heavy rain and savoring the sensations of enclosure and exposure.

A serialized SM narrative follows a woman’s arrest and imprisonment as she is interrogated, restrained, transported, subjected to corporal punishment and forced labor, and repeatedly humiliated by guards and fellow prisoners.

A fictional girls’ dormitory initiation game develops into a series of wrestling matches in which the defeated participants are forced into humiliating “surrender” play, accompanied by illustrations of female restraint and physical domination.

An essay invites renewed interest in suspension bondage, discussing the visual and emotional appeal of hanging restraint and presenting suspension as a dramatic form of SM performance and erotic imagery.

A serialized crime-and-captivity fantasy follows a narrator drawn into a night of theft, abduction, and sadistic bondage involving a deceased man’s household and a young woman, blending grotesque suspense with erotic coercion.

A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts women being held in an underground setting and subjected to bondage, invasive medical procedures, drugs, and bodily punishment, presented through sensational dialogue and illustrations.

A fictional account follows a woman who asks an older man to become her tyrant, leading to scenes of domestic restraint, discipline, and willing submission illustrated as an erotic power exchange.

A sensational fictionalized narrative centers on a Japanese military officer’s seppuku or harakiri, detailing ritual preparation, abdominal cutting, bloodshed, and the observers’ reactions.

A travelogue describing the author’s journey through Sardinia, where encounters with an affluent household and bathhouse culture lead to elaborate scenes of female servitude, restraint, punishment, and captivity.

A first-person essay exploring an intense erotic fascination with obese bodies through personal memories, imagined encounters, dreams, and scenes of sensual submission and bodily admiration.

A short review of recent Japanese films featuring bondage, abduction, punishment, and tied female characters, with commentary on their staging and sensational appeal.

Fukuda Chitoki recalls developing an erotic fascination with the texture, color, smell, and intimate associations of women’s flannel waistcloths, tracing the fetish from childhood memories through later attempts to acquire and wear them.

Yamada Natsuko presents a confessional account of moving from an earlier sadistic orientation toward masochistic self-conception, describing desires for restraint, humiliation, male control, and eventual submission.

Kimura Sadakichi’s confession explores an erotic fixation on diarrhea, defecation, toilets, and the loss of bodily control, recounting laxative use, enemas, accidents, shame, and the tension between private gratification and ordinary social life.

A biographical feature on physically formidable contemporary women, especially female martial-arts practitioners, presenting their training, competitive achievements, and ability to challenge conventional assumptions about women’s strength.

An account of a school drama classroom in which a teacher guides children through rehearsals, role-playing, costumes, and performances while reflecting on student creativity and changing educational culture.

An erotic narrative about women subjected to elaborate rope-tying and punitive training, with extended scenes of restraint, physical vulnerability, humiliation, and endurance illustrated through staged drawings.

A photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate rope bondage in forest and indoor settings, including tree bondage, tied limbs, blindfolding, gagging, and varied restrained positions.

An erotic illustration centers on a restrained woman and leather-associated imagery, emphasizing the sensory and fetishistic appeal of leather within a staged bondage scene.

An illustrated installment in the Kurokawa Fujio series depicts a woman bound and gagged in a confined room, combining captivity imagery with erotic restraint.

An erotic illustration titled “The Circus Girl,” credited to Kurokawa Fujio, depicts a circus performer in an intimate and physically constrained encounter with a male figure.

An erotic period-drama illustration shows a partially undressed woman seated with a sword across her lap, evoking a violent struggle involving a lady attendant.

An erotic historical illustration depicts a bare-breasted woman on a rooftop or balcony holding a sword, suggesting pursuit and devotion to a feudal lord.

An erotic illustration portrays a woman physically dominating a prone husband, who lies beneath her in a posture of submission.

An illustrated scene depicts the training of a human “horse,” with a woman seated astride and controlling a man on all fours while another woman participates with a brush.