Article Translations

A reflective essay considers the writer’s experiences of SM, the changing representation of bondage and sexual desire in specialist magazines, and the psychological differences between ordinary sexual relationships and SM encounters.

A photographic feature depicts a woman subjected to body painting, rope bondage, exposure, and humiliation in a staged SM scenario.

A photographic and narrative feature presents the staged training of a young wife as an M-oriented submissive through marital bondage, discipline, exposure, and ritualized restraint.

A photographic feature depicting a male model, initially in sailor-style clothing and later undressed, subjected to elaborate rope restraint and posed submission.

The first part of N.’s photographic sequence presents a bound subject in staged domestic and bedroom settings, emphasizing rope restraint, exposure, and eroticized vulnerability.

The continuation of N.’s sequence shows further intimate bondage tableaux in which the subject is restrained and posed across a bed and against patterned furnishings.

A photographic and instructional feature presents a pregnant woman bound in varied rope configurations, including seated, reclining, standing, and restrained postures, with discussion of technique and bodily positioning.

This second installment explores voyeuristic pleasure through erotic anecdotes, commentary, and staged photographs of women subjected to blindfolding, gagging, rope bondage, and other intimate scenes.

An erotic narrative follows an older man’s recollection of pursuing and restraining a female student with a distinctive bondage belt, rope, blindfolds, and other restraints, accompanied by staged images of the episodes.

An illustrated practical feature presents bamboo-based bondage devices and configurations, explaining their construction and use for immobilization, positional restraint, suspension, sensory restriction, and corporal punishment.

A mixed photographic and narrative feature describes the production of SM films and staged erotic scenes, including the recruitment and direction of performers, photography, secrecy, and the author’s encounter with a woman involved in the scene.

Yoshiko’s first-person account traces her development from an ordinary married life into a female-slave identity shaped by a dominant partner, bondage, discipline, sexual submission, and changing domestic relationships, accompanied by documentary-style photogr...

A staged erotic reportage follows the successive rope-binding sessions used to train a young wife into an “M-woman,” combining editorial narration, dialogue, and photographic demonstrations of varied restrained positions and sensory restriction.

A photographic portfolio documents a bound woman being maneuvered through dramatic inverted suspension and other rope-restraint positions, emphasizing the spectacle of the staged scene.

A sequence of staged erotic photographs depicts a woman restrained in domestic and bedroom settings, including sensory restriction and tightly bound poses presented as scenes of erotic pleasure.

The inaugural editorial introduces Sun & Moon as a specialist magazine devoted to unconventional sexuality, erotic imagination, SM culture, and perspectives excluded from mainstream society, while inviting readers and contributors to help develop its ongoing p...

A roundtable of experienced SM practitioners discusses their lifestyles, relationships, experimentation, and practical techniques, including bondage, needle play, photography, and the role of specialist magazines. The participants also reflect on marriage, sec...

An autobiographical confession by Kasai Rokurō describing his strong interest in whipping and other forms of corporal punishment, including encounters involving restraint, role-play, and the direction of a female partner, accompanied by staged erotic photograp...

Ōno Seiya recounts two years of SM involvement with his sister-in-law, presenting a secret and emotionally complicated relationship centered on erotic experimentation, restraint, and changing sexual roles.

A photo-reportage follows an editor’s staged bondage sessions with a married couple, combining interviews, role-play dialogue, and extensive images of rope restraint, humiliation, and changing SM dynamics.

This feature reviews and introduces the 8mm erotic home movie The Barbarian Girls, presenting its fetishized bondage, punishment, and sensational imagery as an imported film attraction.

A practical lesson demonstrates the “behind-the-back A-form” tie, explaining rope placement and tension while illustrating the completed restraint on a model.

A confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s wife’s past in the nightlife business and his subsequent use of rope bondage, punishment, and staged photographs in their relationship, ending with a return to their present domestic life.

The first installment presents overseas SM photographs, chiefly depicting Black women in fetish clothing and staged scenes of bondage, domination, and sadistic display.

The second installment continues the overseas SM photo feature with additional images from a specialist Bizarre magazine, emphasizing Black female subjects in posed bondage and sadomasochistic scenes.

A camera-report feature follows a staged bondage photography session involving a pregnant model, including editorial dialogue, specialized restraints, posing, and the production of images for an SM publication.

A photographic portfolio presents a pregnant model in a series of rope-bound, blindfolded, seated, standing, and floor-based poses, emphasizing the visual display of pregnancy through staged restraint.

This photographic feature portrays a woman as a female slave through a sequence of staged rope-bondage scenes, including restrained floor and seated positions overseen by a male participant.

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman restrained in a succession of seated, standing, and floor positions, emphasizing her anticipation of torment, physical helplessness, and shame.

A staged photographic sequence presents the discipline and transformation of a young wife into an M-woman through elaborate rope restraint and controlled submissive poses.

This photographic portfolio shows a rope-bound woman posed like a doll, including tightly wrapped torso and limb configurations, blindfolding, and other forms of immobilization.

A photographic feature presents a woman in a series of tightly rope-bound poses, documenting Japanese kinbaku techniques and the visual aesthetics of immobilized bodies.

In a first-person erotic reportage, a woman recounts how encounters with older authority figures and later partners deepened her masochistic desires, submissive role, and interest in bondage and discipline.

This special illustrated portfolio presents ten staged erotic scenes involving bondage, restraints, suspension, coercion, and sexualized punishment.

An illustrated feature presents bamboo-based restraint devices and positions, combining practical explanations with staged photographs of their use in bondage scenes.

A confessional narrative by a married woman describes incorporating a structural pillar and household settings into the couple’s consensual bondage and marital SM practices.

Kawamoto Ryūji’s New Year editorial reflects on the difficulty of obtaining fresh, compelling material, discusses changing SM readership and publishing conditions, and calls for more distinctive contributions and participation.

An extended personal and instructional feature on domestic and marital SM presents bondage scenarios, handmade restraint equipment, role-play, and staged photographic scenes as ways for couples to explore erotic fantasy and everyday sexual life.

The magazine’s correspondence and community pages combine editorial notices, reader and contributor communications, group introductions, submission requests, publication information, and previews of forthcoming material.

An erotic reportage by Nakamiya Sakae describes a married couple’s escalating bondage photography centered on the wife’s pregnancy, including rope restraint, blindfolding, gagging, and staged domestic scenes. The accompanying photographs document varied kinbak...