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Naruse Ryō surveys new directions for research into sexual inversion, challenging rigid distinctions between normality and abnormality and emphasizing the psychological, social, historical, and environmental contexts of sexual behavior. Using homosexuality, fe...

The artist recounts his long-standing fascination with drawing women bound with rope, tracing the development of his bondage imagery from youthful experiments through postwar erotic magazines and more deliberate use of models, photographs, and artistic study....

A serialized erotic mystery follows a journalist’s encounter with a troubled couple on an isolated island, gradually revealing coercion, captivity, violent confrontation, and a woman subjected to elaborate restraint. Illustrated scenes reinforce the narrative’...

This historical account follows one of the rickshaw pullers celebrated for helping subdue the attacker in the Ōtsu Incident, tracing how imperial honors, public acclaim, and sudden wealth gave way to indulgence, obsessive jealousy, and ruin in Kyoto’s geisha-w...

In this autobiographical serialized account, Mine Kōji recalls escalating boyhood abuse, humiliation, and corporal punishment by older youths and coworkers, presenting these experiences as formative in the emergence of his masochistic desires.

A first-person erotic narrative explores a husband’s intense fetish for rubber and waterproof clothing through marital scenarios involving encasement, restraint, sensory restriction, sweating, and his wife’s participation and resistance. The piece combines fet...

A sensational erotic narrative follows two women whose intense same-sex relationship culminates in a mutual suicide at a hot-spring inn, with the story framed as based on a newspaper account and accompanied by erotic illustrations.

A first-person erotic narrative describes punishing women accused of infidelity, combining confrontational dialogue with elaborate rope restraints, forced exposure, and escalating disciplinary scenes. The article also explains several binding positions and tec...

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Tōe, a vulnerable woman drawn into coercion, captivity, medicalized abuse, and escalating sadistic domination by men and women. Its episodes combine psychological terror, bondage, humiliation, and illustrated sensati...

This translated historical account, based on a 1901 German source, surveys allegedly cruel women—especially female teachers and guardians—who inflict corporal punishment and derive authority from the suffering and humiliation of those under their control, acco...

A first-person diary-style confession recounts Emiko’s obsessive pursuit of enemas, including repeated procedures, physical discomfort, humiliation, and the psychological gratification she derives from them. The feature is accompanied by staged and “secret” ph...

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a kimono-clad entertainer and her male companion on a moonlit journey through the Itako waterways, where he binds and transports her by boat amid increasingly coercive scenes of restraint and immersion. The text combines...

A surreal first-person fantasy set in a hospital operating room depicts M子 being pursued, restrained, anesthetized, and subjected to invasive surgery amid recurring memories and dream imagery involving the narrator’s wife and other women. The accompanying ima...

An illustrated essay by Itō Seiu explores Japanese women’s hair as an erotic fetish, discussing its sensory, psychological, literary, and historical associations from the Edo period through modern times. The accompanying erotic illustrations depict women subje...

A prison memoir recounting ten months of confinement, focusing on the routines and relationships of inmates, illicit smoking, surveillance, interrogation, and the threat or use of severe punishment. Its accompanying illustration emphasizes the coercive, humili...

A multi-panel illustrated feature presenting ten humorous and erotic tableaux, including couples engaged in restraint, punishment, submission, and fetishistic play.

Itō Seiu’s “Fire Wheel” is a dramatic erotic illustration of a bound figure secured to a large wheel-like apparatus, presenting a spectacular punishment and restraint tableau.

A visual introduction to foreign fetish literature presents images associated with the American magazine Bizarre, including glove-related restraint, veiling or facial covering, and staged scenes of women restraining men.

An illustrated feature presents a theatrical “girl sumo” spectacle in which women wrestle in staged bouts, with several scenes incorporating rope restraint, costumes, and sumo-related props and commentary.

Two erotic illustrations depict women subjected to elaborate restraints: one is nearly suspended by a rope attached to her hair and made to move with it, while the other is forced into a protruding posture by a spiked collar, leather boots, and straps before c...

A two-page photographic feature depicts staged sadomasochistic scenes in which women dominate submissive men through foot-licking and whipping or striking with an implement, accompanied by brief provocative captions and model credits.

A photographic album presenting women posed in elaborate rope bondage, including seated and prone restraints, bound limbs, veiling, and other staged kinbaku compositions.

A staged outdoor photographic sequence shows a woman progressively rope-bound beside a rustic bench and in surrounding vegetation, including restrained and incapacitated poses. The captions emphasize the binding process and the subject’s inability to move.

A staged photographic feature presents two women in a sadomasochistic role-play scenario, with one woman dominating, restraining, and punishing the other through bindings and forced positions. The images emphasize female authority, immobilization, and theatric...

Tsuzuki Mineko’s illustration “A Cute Customer” depicts a woman seated in a domestic swing or chair, partially wrapped and entangled in fabric and rope in a stylized bondage tableau.

A full-page erotic illustration presents a reclining woman amid patterned garments and bedding, visualizing a fetishistic dream through an intimate, voyeuristic composition.

A photographic fetish feature depicts a male model subjected to nose clipping and pinching, rope binding that raises his lower body, and being knocked down.

An illustrated album attributed to Rudolf Hegemann presents scenes of women exercising cruel or dominant power through restraint, punishment, humiliation, and captivity, with German captions identifying the imported artworks.

This illustrated feature depicts a white female slave displayed on an auction platform, chained and whipped for failing to comply while slave merchants inspect her body and watch her distress before choosing a purchaser.

A staged photographic feature depicts women administering an enema, pinning and pulling one another by the hair, and conducting a restrained nude scene on a rooftop using torn bedding and red vinyl cord.

A photographic feature from the French magazine Pigalle presents staged scenes of women wrestling, including holds and bodily restraint.

A humorous American magazine feature depicts a wife dominating and physically controlling her husband in a domestic setting, presenting the home as a site of female authority and male submission.

Sugihara Kōji’s illustrated domestic vignettes show a wife restrained and humiliated during her husband’s morning departure and after-dinner routine, emphasizing coercive marital discipline and his sadistic gaze.

A crime-and-captivity story follows Hasegawa as he abducts and restrains Akiko, while Kyōji’s intervention exposes betrayal, jealousy, and violent erotic obsession.

This theoretical essay surveys changing definitions of perversion, distinguishing normality, abnormality, sexual deviation, and same-sex desire while arguing that sexual behavior must be understood through psychology, biology, social norms, and historical cont...

An illustrated first-person account explains how the artist designs bondage pictures, discusses models, poses, ropes, clothing, composition, and expressive detail, and reflects on the relationship between erotic imagery and artistic practice.

This installment of a serialized erotic thriller follows journalist Kenzaburō and others on Sado Island as an investigation into a suspicious marriage and a woman’s disappearance develops into coercion, captivity, escape attempts, and violent confrontation. Dr...

This sensational historical narrative revisits the Ōtsu Incident and its aftermath, tracing the erosion of public glory and moral standing around the celebrated rescuers while connecting their later lives to obsession, sexual misconduct, criminality, and punis...

In this autobiographical confession, the narrator recounts formative boyhood experiences of humiliation, beatings, forced exposure, restraint, and submission, explaining how repeated punishment and fear gradually became intertwined with masochistic pleasure.

A first-person erotic confession explores the writer’s intense fascination with his wife’s sweat, bodily scent, rubber garments, and sweat-producing situations within marriage and staged fantasy.