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A serialized erotic narrative set around the Kiso region follows violent encounters, captivity, and coercive punishment involving masters, servants, travelers, and bound women.

An extended critical essay examines masochistic imagery and gendered power in modern films, discussing imported cinema, staged scenes, costumes, spectatorship, and the psychological effects of visualizing female and male submission.

Yamaguchi Kōichi provides aesthetic and interpretive commentary on several erotic illustrations, explaining their composition, bodily poses, medicalized and disciplinary scenarios, and the visual techniques used to intensify masochistic feeling.

A serialized erotic fantasy follows the brutal domination of male servants and schoolboys by powerful women, combining elaborate household scenarios, forced service, humiliation, corporal punishment, and recurring milk-bath imagery.

A reportage profile of a professional bondage model follows her rope-bound photo sessions, including staged restraint, gagging, and other demanding poses, while discussing her appearance, working relationships, and experiences with photographers.

A first-person feature examines a man’s intense interest in photographing women’s underwear, describing covert and staged photography, the pursuit of subjects, equipment, image collecting, and the fetishistic appeal of garments and glimpsed bodies.

A dark erotic narrative follows a woman subjected to escalating training, coercion, bondage, humiliation, and sadistic control, presented through scenes of restraint, discipline, and psychological submission.

This prize-winning crime narrative investigates the death of a young woman whose body bears signs of elaborate restraint and sexual abuse, gradually exposing voyeuristic, cross-dressing, and psychologically disturbed behavior surrounding the case.

A serialized mystery-erotic novel follows detective Kenjiro as he investigates a suspicious island incident involving a missing or abducted woman, police inquiries, secret identities, and scenes of captivity, binding, and coercion.

A memoir-like retrospective traces the author’s decades-long engagement with “abnormal” sexuality, combining reflections on masochistic and fetishistic desires with anecdotes and historical-cultural examples involving female warriors, domination, and erotic im...

An illustrated erotic fantasy presents a woman in a flight suit undergoing a ritualized belly-cutting or seppuku scene, with swords, restraint, and coercive imagery framing the episode as an idealized form of female submission.

A broad departmental section combining current-topic commentary, film and image-set discussion, reader letters, fetish- and practice-focused communications, club and publication notices, and previews of forthcoming issue content. It documents the magazine’s ed...

Azuma Shin surveys Meiji-period newspaper reports and related popular imagery, reproducing sensational stories involving marriage, domestic conflict, women’s sexuality, prostitution, crime, punishment, bodily exposure, and sexual scandal while commenting on th...

An erotic narrative explores a married couple’s experimentation with plaster casts, corsets, and other restrictive medicalized garments, blending bodily control with marital sadomasochistic desire.

This episodic erotic narrative centers on summer yukata, hot-spring and lodging-house encounters, voyeuristic observation, and scenes of women being restrained or humiliated indoors and outdoors.

A coercive fantasy recounts an adopted girl’s mistreatment after her father remarries, depicting a cruel stepmother’s domestic confinement, forced exposure, binding, and corporal punishment.

An eroticized first-person account of female seppuku imagery and abdominal cutting, emphasizing blood, pain, self-inflicted injury, and the narrator’s fascination with the scene.

A first-person memoir of ten months in prison describing institutional routines, exercise and sports, films, fellow prisoners, correspondence, sexual frustration, and reflections on relationships with women after confinement.

The fourth installment of a serialized illustrated work that combines historical discussion of Japanese women’s hairstyles with erotic scenes of hair, rope restraint, abduction, and punishment.

A research-style presentation of nose torture describes experiments and techniques involving nose rings, cords, pulling, and restraint, accompanied by an instructional illustration.

A serialized account of amateur erotic photography explains how to stage and photograph bondage scenes, covering models, tying methods, cameras, lighting, film, costs, and practical mishaps.

A translated selection from Johannes R. Birlinger’s 1901 Das Grausame Weib surveys historical and sensational cases of women inflicting corporal punishment, abuse, and humiliation on men, children, and other women.

An illustrated instructional feature presents ten forms of moxibustion applied to women, framing heat, pain, bodily exposure, and restraint as eroticized disciplinary practices.

A notebook-style account examines masochistic fantasies and experiences involving bondage, humiliation, animalization, forced service, and imagined or enacted physical discipline, accompanied by illustrative scenes and references to related erotic literature.

A sexological survey analyzes the regional distribution of male homosexuality in Japan using comparative data, maps, and discussion of urbanization, occupation, culture, climate, and social environment.

An erotic narrative depicts a series of staged punishment encounters involving rope bondage, gags, enforced poses, verbal commands, and escalating struggles between the participants.

Presented as a first-person confession, this feature traces a man’s exhibitionist desires from childhood through adulthood, including fantasies and experiences of appearing nude before others and wanting to become a model.

A first-person confessional narrative explores a woman’s divided identity, profound loneliness, and masochistic desire through elaborate rope-bondage fantasies and scenes involving her husband and other imagined observers.

This erotic fiction follows a boy named Taichi through increasingly charged encounters involving kelp, nudity, restraint, and adult-directed fantasy, using the kelp as a distinctive fetishistic and bondage motif.

This erotic fiction follows Shizuko’s obsessive suspicion that her brother’s crutch carries a lewd aura, leading her to investigate his concealed sexual life and to confuse fetishistic fantasy, secrecy, and reality. The accompanying illustration depicts a man...

A sadomasochistic erotic narrative in which Shizuko is drawn into a series of coercive games involving captivity, restraint, humiliation, and violent punishment.

An illustrated sadomasochistic narrative depicting women subjected to institutional discipline, restraint, corporal punishment, forced exposure, and humiliating treatment in prison- and workplace-like settings.

An illustrated practical feature describes the construction and use of a restrictive “punishment garment,” presenting staged scenarios involving clothing, ropes, chains, exposure, and controlled positioning.

A retrospective essay on punishment-themed pictures discusses the creation and recollection of erotic illustrations depicting restraint, immersion, suspension, electric shock, and other sensationalized scenes.

An illustrated feature titled “African Curiosities” presents a series of African-themed erotic tableaux involving unusual bodily positions, restraint, and scenes of physical domination.

Itō Seiu’s “Finger Puppets,” part of a series on unusual spectacles, depicts a crowded, dramatically arranged scene in which human bodies are presented as objects of manipulation and visual curiosity.

“Complex Love” presents a portrait of a gagged and apparently restrained woman whose expressive eyes suggest an unheard message addressed directly to the viewer.

An erotic illustration depicts a frightened, nude woman kneeling in a cold stone cell with her wrists tightly bound overhead against the wall.

An erotic illustration shows a woman bound with rope to a pillar, her arms raised above her head and her body arranged in a helpless suspended posture.

This erotic illustration presents a modern fantasy inspired by the traditional Hitotsuya motif, depicting a woman restrained across a household-like setting surrounded by domestic and theatrical objects.