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A roundtable-style discussion brings together several participants to debate male cross-dressing, clothing and makeup, personal identity, social reactions, gender roles, and the pleasures and anxieties surrounding feminine presentation.

A long-form SM story follows Yōko and several coworkers on a mountain trip that turns into a cruel series of wagers, captivity, bindings, punishments, and humiliating sexualized abuse, with the shifting power relations among the participants driving the narrat...

This illustrated commentary reviews a November issue of the film magazine Kindai Eiga, discussing its gravure photographs, film stars, celebrity personalities, and the ways popular media presents their lifestyles and public images.

A first-person erotic memoir recounts how a woman’s fascination with white tabi leads to an intimate relationship with a man who shares and indulges her fetish, culminating in marriage and domestic life shaped by their private desires.

This illustrated senryū commentary traces humorous and erotic references to the navel, abdomen, childbirth, bodily exposure, and related physical imagery across historical and modern verse.

A reader’s extended response to the December issue reflects on its fiction and erotic writing, especially depictions of abnormal desire, beautiful women, fantasy, and the boundary between imaginative literature and lived experience.

A first-person erotic narrative follows a woman’s coercive submission to a female owner, emphasizing enslavement, discipline, restraint, and psychological surrender.

A richly illustrated feature documents staged bondage-photography sessions, describing the models, rope arrangements, physical positions, emotional direction, and practical challenges of producing kinbaku images.

This historical erotic fiction portrays rival female armies battling for control of Kasumigajo, combining armed combat, female command, eroticized violence, and dramatic defeat in a Sengoku-era setting; the installment also includes an accompanying erotic illu...

A bondage enthusiast’s memoir discusses the uses and appeal of bands and rubber restraints before shifting into an illustrated historical erotic narrative of women’s conflict, capture, and violent ordeal at Kasumigaura.

This essay presents an elaborate method for imaginatively reading erotic punishment illustrations, guiding readers through scenes of female restraint, humiliation, bodily exposure, and forced bodily functions; the accompanying pages also advertise and depict s...

A narrative travelogue follows Abe and Reiko through meetings, journeys, and intimate episodes connected with the search for punishment-related materials, combining erotic restraint scenes with an interest in old erotic publications, historical customs, and ar...

A historical erotic legend recounts the violent self-disembowelment of women during a samurai-era conflict and the later origin of a memorial Jizō associated with the event. The narrative combines battlefield violence, female sacrifice, local shrine history, a...

A first-person fetish confession describes an intense fascination with enemas, enema instruments, bodily sensations, and medicalized sexual fantasy.

A long fictional narrative follows an artistically minded man whose attraction to women’s long black hair develops into a consuming romantic and erotic fixation, expressed through hair imagery, jealousy, intimacy, and staged scenes.

A first-person erotic narrative recounts a sadistic schoolgirl’s domination and humiliation of a male servant through verbal abuse, beatings, bondage, and coercive sexualized games.

This experiential novel follows an office romance and affair involving a married woman and male colleagues, escalating through sexual jealousy, emotional manipulation, violence, and marital conflict.

A practical feature documents staged bondage photography, describing how models are posed, tied, struck, restrained, and photographed with ropes, gags, blindfolds, and other props.

A multi-page reader-communications section presents personal letters and experiential accounts, including the fifth installment of Mrs. Sekiya’s bondage diary, alongside reader requests, editorial replies, club notices, publishing information, and advertisemen...

A photographic portfolio documents women bound with rope in varied floor, seated, and suspended positions, emphasizing elaborate knots, bodily restriction, and staged bondage tableaux.

An erotic illustration depicts a restrained woman being compelled to drink salt water, presenting forced ingestion as a scene of coercive punishment.

Illustrations portray women bound and arranged as displayed “merchandise” for customers, using a shop or exhibition metaphor to frame bondage, inspection, and sexual objectification.

An erotic illustration titled “The Prison Bride” depicts a woman reclining in a prison-like setting while bound with rope, presenting captivity as a staged visual fantasy.

An erotic illustration titled “Prison at the Bottom of the Earth” shows a woman restrained by ropes against the walls of an underground cell, emphasizing confinement and helplessness.

An erotic illustration titled “The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop” portrays a female outlaw in a dramatic rooftop scene with a sword and a restrained male figure, combining criminal melodrama, erotic staging, and suicide imagery.

An erotic illustration depicts a female troupe leader performing a staged real-blade disembowelment on a theater set, combining theatrical spectacle with violent fantasy.

An erotic illustration shows a gagged woman restrained on the floor while wild dogs approach, framing captivity and animal threat as a scene of terror.

A photographic gravure portfolio presents staged bondage studies featuring rope restraint, gagging, blindfolding, bound poses, foot-focused imagery, and ritualized dominance.

An essay examines the psychological, ethical, and social meanings of masochism and sadism, contrasting pathological cruelty with the pursuit of pleasure, love, freedom, and self-realization in postwar society.

This serialized SM tale follows a married couple and their associates through escalating episodes of surveillance, coercion, rope restraint, physical punishment, medicalized experimentation, and sadomasochistic role play.

A film correspondence piece discusses the staging and erotic impact of Wakao’s binding, crucifixion, and burning in The First Emperor, treating the scene as a striking depiction of historical punishment and visualized suffering.

A reportage-style account of the founding and first meeting of a women’s sumo association, describing its rules, recruitment, organizers, participants, demonstrations, and bouts in an atmosphere that combines athletic spectacle with eroticized observation.

A first-person confession by a rubber fetishist describing the design and use of a rubber chair, related rubber garments and cushions, and the tactile, sensory, and erotic pleasures associated with the material.

An essay on navel dirt and omphaloliths that combines medical and anatomical explanation with folklore, wordplay, hygiene advice, fetishistic associations, and personal anecdotes about the navel as an eroticized body part.

An autobiographical series of recollections about voyeuristic encounters from childhood through adulthood, including peeping at women bathing, dressing, and undergoing medical examinations, alongside reflections on visual fascination, erotic memory, and postwa...

A historical erotic tale set amid the fall of the shogunate, in which a geisha and a fugitive samurai confront pursuit, loyalty, suicide, and the ritualized cutting of the woman’s abdomen, accompanied by an illustration of the knife-wielding heroine.

A serialized SM novel follows a female narrator and a female slave through escapes, recaptures, prison confinement, interrogation, punishment, and eventual separation, combining melodramatic crime plotting with scenes of bondage and humiliation.

A serialized adventure narrative recounts an expedition into Sardinia, portrayed as a slave state where captured women endure restraint, punishment, medicalized cruelty, and forced labor before the protagonists attempt to escape.

A first-person confession describes the author’s longstanding erotic fascination with women’s buttocks and waists, especially as revealed through clothing, and recounts voyeuristic observation, memories, and personal encounters shaped by that fetish.

This strange medical-gothic tale follows a patient whose intense fear of the privy fly develops into bizarre bodily symptoms, hallucinations, and a mysterious illness that doctors struggle to explain.