Article Translations

A scrapbook-based survey of striking manga and magazine clippings, discussing bizarre and erotic imagery, changing publishing practices, and the appeal of sensational illustrations to readers.

A serialized erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows an escaped prisoner through pursuit, recapture, interrogation, confinement, and humiliating punishment by female authorities and their associates.

An illustrated first-person account of enema examinations and treatments emphasizes medicalized bodily exposure, embarrassment, coercive examination, and the narrator’s fascination with the procedure and its apparatus.

An essay examines the merits, faults, and erotic associations of the navel through humorous senryū, drawing on examples that connect bodily appearance, pregnancy, beauty, and intimate observation.

A case-style psychological account explores compulsive undressing, describing public and private episodes of male and female nudity while considering exhibitionistic impulses, social inhibition, and possible clinical causes.

An illustrated essay surveys female seppuku as a historical and imaginative motif, combining literary scenarios, visual depictions, wartime and peacetime comparisons, case statistics, and discussion of motives, gender, and eroticized violence.

An erotic serialized story follows a company group and married couple on a hot-spring excursion, where social encounters, bathing arrangements, disguise, and a missing stocking generate embarrassment and suggestive complications.

A prose-and-illustration feature surveys sadistic fantasies focused on cutting, piercing, binding, and otherwise tormenting the abdomen, presenting elaborate scenarios of bodily injury and distress.

A historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to crucifixion, restraint, interrogation, and execution amid Edo-period violence, concluding with extended fantasies of female abdominal cutting and ritualized death. Its illustrations emphasize staged scen...

An art-critical essay examines contemporary masochism through opera, cinema, music, painting, and literary representation, arguing that masochistic aesthetics emerge through psychologically charged images of suffering, restraint, and eroticized power. It discu...

A serialized erotic narrative follows a married couple whose relationship develops through coercive encounters, binding, confinement, humiliation, and escalating struggles over authority, desire, and secrecy. The story repeatedly links domestic intimacy with p...

A literary account of Lesbos explores female same-sex desire through references to Sappho and tribadism, combining reflections on sexual psychology with scenes of attraction, jealousy, secrecy, and intimate correspondence. Its episodes trace how forbidden desi...

The eleventh installment of a transgressive erotic narrative presents theatrical scenes of sexual display, coercion, nudity, and voyeuristic spectatorship among performers and audiences.

An illustrated study of female wrestling examines wrestling holds, bodily strength, movement, and the eroticized visual appeal of wrestlers’ bodies, especially the breasts, hips, legs, and buttocks.

A first-person account of ten months in confinement describes prison cells, surveillance, inspections, labor, meals, daily schedules, interpersonal tensions, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

Hamura Kyōko presents a practical account of enema play, describing equipment, insertion methods, body positions, quantities, and precautions, accompanied by instructional illustrations of restrained participants.

Hosaka Shin recounts a moxibustion fixation involving repeated therapeutic and eroticized applications of heat, bodily exposure, restraint, and the intense sensations associated with treatment.

Suzuki Jūzō describes a cross-dressing photography enthusiast who collects women’s clothing, transforms his appearance, poses for photographs, and pursues increasingly elaborate staged images and private fantasies.

A serialized autobiographical erotic narrative follows Rakukichi from school and adolescence into adult life, emphasizing his repeated encounters with physically and psychologically dominant women, humiliation, punishment, and male submission. The illustrated...

Presented as a teacher’s first-person confession, this episode describes the sexualized disciplining, coercion, and humiliation of younger male subordinates, framed through workplace hierarchy and the narrator’s sadistic control.

Kitajima Kazutoshi reflects on extreme and contradictory forms of sexual desire through autobiographical encounters, discussing fetishistic attraction, voyeuristic observation, pursuit of women, and fantasies of domination, bodily transformation, and humiliati...

A personal miscellany reflecting on the contents and presentation of a recent erotic magazine issue, including its visual material, readers’ reactions, and the author’s preferences for future publishing.

A sensational fictional narrative in which Aiko is confined in a psychiatric hospital, subjected to coercive medicalized abuse and restraint, and drawn into a violent escape and revenge plot involving her father and the hospital director.

A multi-part sensational feature combining purported case accounts, personal testimonies, and editorial commentary about unusual sexual behavior, coercion, medical treatment, humiliation, and the psychology of masochistic desire.

This essay challenges prevailing interpretations of “perversion” in group psychology, arguing that social and political pressures can produce or magnify supposedly deviant behavior and that such cases should be examined with greater psychological nuance.

Kawai Itsuko examines depictions of female seppuku in early Japanese kusazōshi and related printed narratives, discussing recurring scenes of women’s self-disembowelment, loyalty, sacrifice, and dramatic eroticized violence.

An illustrated gallery presents numerous variations on restraint, including rope bondage, suspension, immobilizing devices, and restrictive positions, with Japanese labels identifying the techniques or apparatus.

Itō Seiu illustrates an alleged post-wedding custom in a Nagano village in which young men publicly strip and humiliate newlyweds at the village shrine, prompting the couple to vow mutual fidelity; the accompanying note acknowledges that the scene has been exa...

A continuation of the magazine’s “What Shall I Do?” feature depicts four elaborate punitive bondage scenes using frames, furniture, chains, poles, and suspended containers, while inviting readers to submit further ideas for unusual restraint devices and settin...

A photograph from Bizarre depicts a blindfolded woman seated with her arms restrained behind her and a rope wrapped around her ankles, accompanied by commentary on the unusual tying arrangement and the visual effect of her extended legs.

A photographic feature presents a woman whose wrists and arms are bound while chains linking her shoes restrict her stride, with the accompanying text emphasizing the contrast between Japanese-style restraint and the resulting masochistic shuffling movement.

An illustrated erotic narrative, “Night Visitor,” portrays a mysterious nighttime scene in which a man discovers a woman bound to a tree in a forest and watches as an ominous male figure approaches, blurring dream, voyeurism, and suspense.

An erotic illustration presents a sad clown-like figure and a woman in a surreal theatrical world of whips, balloons, and fantastical forms, framing the male performer as a subordinate figure whose suffering supports the spectacle.

A staged photographic sequence follows a masked and gloved woman overpowering another model, forcing her into submission and progressively restraining her with bindings.

This outdoor photographic sequence depicts a costumed woman attacking, dragging, tying, and disciplining a male captive among trees and tall grass, with captions organizing the episode as a progressive assault and restraint scenario.

A sequential illustrated campsite narrative follows Riko and Masao as their hiking trip turns into a series of playful but coercive erotic reversals involving outdoor restraint, disrobing, feeding, and punishment.

This photographic feature presents staged scenes of a woman performing or being associated with abdominal-cutting imagery, framed by reader correspondence from a self-described female abdominal-cutting enthusiast and editorial notes about submitted photographs...

A composed erotic photograph depicts a woman in high heels pressing her foot onto a prone man, emphasizing female control and the spectacle of male submission.

A staged erotic photograph depicts a man reduced to a “human horse,” carrying or serving a dominant woman and being made to run for her.

A photographic feature presents a kneeling male slave in a posture described as easy to strike, framed by a woman’s command to assume the position.