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An essay examines the film adaptation and erotic imagery of Flower and Snake, discussing its staging, atmosphere, bodily display, and psychological implications before turning to a first-person account of attending an SM research meeting and reflecting on cont...

A first-person account of a rainy-night encounter describes a woman’s bondage, sensory restriction, embarrassment, and psychological response, accompanied by photographs and related reflections on masochistic experience.

The author reflects on his admiration for a woman associated with SM publishing and imagery, combining personal confession with discussion of her character, sexuality, illness, and the emotional meaning of their relationship.

An erotic narrative follows a married couple and a female partner through an elaborate rope-bound photographic session, emphasizing marital intimacy, negotiated submission, and the aesthetic staging of bondage.

Ogura Yūki presents pregnancy photographs and commentary framing the exposed, bound, and visibly pregnant female body as an object of fascination, shame, and humiliation within fetish publishing.

A fictional bondage narrative follows a captive woman subjected to elaborate palm-fiber rope restraints, interrogation, corporal punishment, and escalating sadistic control.

Arao Keiko’s confessional account describes widowhood, sexual vulnerability, and coercive encounters involving shaving, bondage, photographic display, and humiliating control by men outside her marriage.

This illustrated essay traces the author’s fascination with images of women being restrained, punished, tortured, or humiliated, combining autobiographical memories and sexual-psychological reflection with discussions of historical Chinese and Japanese punishm...

A photographic and illustrated gallery presenting staged scenes of Japanese rope bondage, including seated, floor-based, gagged, blindfolded, and suspended compositions, with several models and varied lighting, costumes, and settings. Captions identify rope re...

A male reader responds to a woman’s earlier memoir about wanting to become a love-slave wife, expressing sympathy for her devotion to caring for her ill father while acknowledging that her published photographs of her bound nude body intensified his sadistic i...

An extensively illustrated erotic reportage follows an SM study-group encounter in which a woman undergoes elaborate rope bondage, gagging, positional restraint, and humiliation, with accompanying discussion of bondage methods, photographs, correspondence, and...

A sensational reportage article surveys torture and violent initiation practices associated with delinquent female-student groups, recounting incidents involving high-school girls in Osaka and Tokyo and explaining the groups’ specialized terminology and abusiv...

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Aiko, an office worker, as she is repeatedly subjected to coercive bondage, humiliation, sexualized commands, and photographic or voyeuristic display by A and others, moving between indoor scenes and secluded outdoor sett...

A serialized erotic narrative follows porn actress Ginko as she is drawn into increasingly coercive and abusive filmed performances involving domination, bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexual exploitation. The story also reflects on the power dynamics o...

A first-person narrative revisits a nighttime festival sideshow filled with uncanny exhibits, grotesque figures, and staged erotic spectacles, blending childhood memory with voyeuristic fascination and disturbing fantasies of captivity, death, and bodily displ...

A serialized erotic adventure follows a submarine expedition that encounters an Amazon society, where the protagonists become entangled in royal intrigue, captivity, sexual coercion, and elaborate restraint rituals. The narrative combines speculative travel, f...

A serialized captivity narrative depicts female prisoners subjected to harsh surveillance, confinement, physical punishment, restraint devices, humiliation, and forced labor within a prison-like setting. Its recurring scenes emphasize coercive authority, bodil...

An essay examines sadistic fantasies and sexual aggression as expressed through graffiti in public toilets and other everyday spaces, interpreting the recurring imagery and language as evidence of displaced resentment, voyeurism, and eroticized violence.

A first-person account describes a husband and wife’s increasingly intense marital S/M relationship, including Junko’s bondage, humiliation, exhibition, and staged scenes documented through photographs and shared with an S/M readership.

An extended erotic narrative follows the conduct and training of the love slave Pero through episodes of female control, bondage, corporal punishment, oral and anal play, enema-related fetishism, and ritualized group discipline.

A first-person erotic confession recounts the narrator’s increasingly elaborate anal and enema experiments with his partner T-ko, eventually linking these practices to their married life and continuing intimacy.

A serialized historical erotic novel set in an Edo-period pleasure house follows courtesans, patrons, and elaborate staged encounters involving bodily display, humiliation, enemas, fetishistic props, and theatrical sexual performance, accompanied by erotic ill...

A critical essay on staged bondage photography examines rope restraint, gags, blindfolding, bodily poses, facial expression, and the photographic aesthetics of SM scenes, discussing works and models featured in contemporary specialist publications.

A historical and folkloric study traces women’s sumo from early records through Edo-period and modern examples, considering regional customs, rainmaking rituals, entertainment, and changing interpretations of women’s participation.

Satō Matsuo documents a first-person SM experiment using Nelaton catheters for prolonged nasal insertion, progressively larger tubes, and the introduction of water or air, describing resistance, pain, gagging, tears, nasal discharge, gastric discomfort, and ev...

A photographic portfolio presents staged erotic scenes of nude models subjected to elaborate Japanese rope bondage, including blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, suspension, and humiliating “white pig” imagery, photographed in domestic and theatrical...

A photographic feature shows model Keiko Nakagawa tightly restrained and gagged, with Ikeda Masaru’s commentary emphasizing her self-described masochistic identity and the psychological experience of bondage beyond merely displaying the body.

An extended erotic reportage follows Yamaguchi Eiko, a woman fascinated by SM, through interviews and successive staged bondage sessions in which she is tied, blindfolded, gagged, humiliated, and posed as an animal-like captive, accompanied by detailed photogr...

Kitagawa Mariko responds to reader-supplied requests and images by Suzaki Akira, discussing staged scenes of rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, punishment, and related erotic fantasies. The article emphasizes the collaborative, commissioned nature of the il...

This erotic fiction follows Machiko through coercive encounters involving captivity, forced nudity, physical restraint, and humiliating treatment, presented as a literary pastiche with grotesque and sensational imagery.

Part 72 of the serialized erotic narrative depicts an imprisoned woman subjected to escalating coercion, bondage, physical punishment, sexual humiliation, and domination by men in an extravagant foreign setting.

The tenth installment of a serialized captivity fantasy follows imprisoned women subjected to punitive control, medicalized examinations, forced bathing, restraints, and escalating humiliation by guards and officials.

An illustrated feature discusses the aesthetic and practical appeal of binding a bride in a furisode kimono, emphasizing elaborate rope arrangements, restrictive garments, posture, weight, and staged photographic presentation.

The second installment examines the sarugutsuwa gag, combining literary and historical discussion with illustrated examples of different mouth-restraint designs and their sensory and disciplinary effects.

A newlywed husband recounts escalating erotic experiments with his wife, including elaborate restraint, humiliation, nose-focused fetish play, and staged hotel encounters. The diary blends marital intimacy with sadomasochistic performance and repeated use of s...

This installment of a serialized period SM novel follows Mizuno and other characters through elaborate scenes of capture, forced display, restraint, suspension, and sexualized punishment. Illustrated set pieces emphasize theatrical bondage tableaux, historical...

An illustrated practical essay examines the aesthetics and mechanics of Japanese rope bondage, discussing frog, crab, large-character, and other positions, along with rope placement, suspension, props, photography, and the visual presentation of restrained bod...

A long dramatic account follows the making of a masochistic film, depicting performers, director, supervisor, and crew negotiating staged punishment, bodily endurance, artistic performance, money, and labor during an increasingly intense production.

A critical survey of the American pornographic film Deep Throat examines its commercial impact, theatrical circulation, advertising, performers, and reception, contrasting American and Japanese sexual cultures and censorship practices. It also discusses the fi...

This cultural-historical essay investigates the regional distribution and possible origins of women’s sumo in Japan, drawing on folklore reports, local customs, occupational groups, and historical changes from the Edo period through the modern era. The accompa...