Article Translations

An essay on sexual psychology and S/M orientation examines the contrast between dominant and submissive tendencies, their effects on marriage and domestic life, and the ways readers describe or negotiate such desires through letters and personal anecdotes.

A cultural and erotic essay links the navel with disembowelment and seppuku, discussing bodily symbolism, historical execution imagery, cross-cultural accounts of surgery and childbirth, and the visual fascination of exposed abdominal anatomy.

A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts a coercive encounter in which a woman is bound, humiliated, beaten, and subjected to escalating domination by a male narrator, with recurring motifs of restraint, fear, sexualized cruelty, and conflicted desire.

A reader-experience SM novel follows a female student mobilized to work in a wartime aircraft factory, where coercion, rivalry, and workplace control lead to elaborate captivity, binding, enemas, and humiliating punishment. The narrative frames her suffering a...

This essay considers the aesthetics of masochistic art through representations of gendered costume, cross-dressing, role reversal, and combat in films, fiction, photography, and popular imagery. It discusses female riders, pirates, swordswomen, and male figure...

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō describes the planning and execution of bondage photography, recounting shoots involving models, outdoor and temple settings, posing, restraint arrangements, lighting, camera work, and correspondence with readers seeking guidance. The article...

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters about personal SM and fetish experiences, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographs, requests for advice or contact, and announcements for reader-submitted material, clubs, products, and forthcoming...

An illustrated fetish feature evaluates dancers’ navels and abdominal forms through descriptive commentary, photographs, and model imagery, treating the navel as an object of erotic comparison and appreciation.

This long-form SM war fantasy follows aerial-combat pilots and military personnel whose capture leads to elaborate bondage, interrogation, humiliation, sadistic punishment, medical procedures, and death in a fantastical military setting.

A sensational erotic reportage surveys gay bars, same-sex desire, gender presentation, and sexual subcultures, interweaving encounters with commentary on homosexuality, femininity, marriage, and pregnancy. The piece presents these scenes as contemporary postwa...

A serialized SM fiction follows Reiko as she is abducted and subjected to elaborate confinement, restraint, humiliation, branding, whipping, and other forms of sadistic punishment in a secluded stone building. Illustrated episodes emphasize captivity, ritualiz...

An interview and reminiscence about a female sumo wrestler recounts her training, matches, physical strength, and the narrator’s fascinated observations of women’s sumo culture.

The author explains how he obtained and prepared photographs of pregnant women, discussing the rarity of such images, reader demand, editorial selection, and the visual appeal of the pregnant body.

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters, personal experiences, requests, feedback, and discussions of bondage, sexual interests, photographs, and magazine participation, alongside editorial replies and publishing notices.

An opening gravure photograph presents a model secured in an inverted rope pose, emphasizing the visual drama of restricted posture and suspension-like positioning.

A sequence of gravure photographs shows a model held by the wrists overhead against a beam, documenting variations in an elevated arm-restraint position.

A photographic feature depicts compact floor-bound rope positions, including close views of seated and curled body configurations secured with multiple rope wraps.

A photographic portfolio presents a long-haired model in rope restraints, shown in several seated and reclining bondage poses on a bed.

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound outdoors with rope and gagged, posed against a leafy natural background.

An illustrated scene titled “Dancing in a Cangue” shows a woman restrained beneath a wooden bar or cangue, with her ankles chained and a child nearby.

An erotic illustration depicts a bound woman being subjected to wire restraint or torture while another figure attends to the scene.

An erotic illustration presents a restrained nude figure as an avant-garde artwork while a seated observer studies the display, emphasizing the relationship between bondage and artistic spectatorship.

An erotic illustration depicts two women bound and exposed to bees as a staged scene of torment and punishment.

An erotic illustration by Claude Koga depicts a gagged woman held in a specialized restraint apparatus while a standing figure prepares to whip her.

Shima Takashi presents a historical erotic illustration of the final moments of a female castle lord, shown armed with swords amid a violent martial setting.

Taki Reiko depicts a dark erotic fantasy of a kneeling woman gripping a knife at her abdomen as though preparing to cut herself.

A photographic feature depicting a woman subjected to cigarette torture, with cigarettes used as instruments of eroticized pain and control.

A photographic rope-bondage feature showing a woman tightly tied into compact, restrictive positions.

A photographic feature depicting a woman restrained with chains around her body, wrists, and ankles in staged scenes of immobilization and control.

A photographic sequence stages an apparent abdominal-cutting scene, using a blade and bodily reactions to create a theatrical sadistic tableau.

A photographic bondage scene depicts a person folded and restrained on the floor in an intensely compressed posture.

A photographic feature depicts female physical domination, with a woman controlling and overpowering a prone subject in a staged scene.

A photographic feature showing a woman kneeling in rope restraint with a gag, emphasizing bound posture and immobilization.

Hayashi Yumio examines religious hallucination and masochism, linking fervent belief, sacrifice, martyrdom, self-denial, and pathological religious experience across Christian and Japanese contexts.

A serialized SM fiction narrative in which the married Machiko encounters coercive male domination that escalates through exposure, bodily humiliation, fetishized observation, and physical restraint, accompanied by an erotic illustration.

A first-person account of a troubled wartime generation recounts a criminal investigation in which the narrator and companions are arrested, interrogated, and subjected to severe police abuse, leaving lasting psychological scars.

This first-person erotic narrative follows Mita’s encounter with a women-oriented fetish club, where female authority, bondage, humiliation, enemas, and other forms of coercive sexual play are presented as a “prison” of exquisite sensation.

An autobiographical confession describes the narrator’s prolonged hospitalization and repeated enemas, focusing on the shame, dependence, sensory details, and eroticized authority of the nurses who administer the procedures.

A historical erotic narrative follows Margarita, a woman accused of witchcraft, through inquisitorial interrogation, religiously framed punishment, captivity, and execution, with sadistic scenes accompanied by illustrations.