Article Translations

Hamura Kyōko’s open letter to Dr. Azuma is a personal confession about her masochistic and bondage-related desires, marital and domestic circumstances, and uncertainty about how to understand or manage her sexual inclinations.

A translated and explanatory account drawn from a 1901 German work describes violent domination, whipping, captivity, and racialized colonial encounters involving women and African servants. The piece frames these episodes as sensational historical testimony w...

This kōdan-style historical erotic narrative follows a woman subjected to escalating coercion, restraint, whipping, tattooing, humiliation, and bodily violence amid a theatrical world of criminals, servants, and domineering figures. Its accompanying illustrati...

A kōdan-style masochistic fantasy imagines a powerful woman binding, restraining, humiliating, and physically punishing a male submissive through elaborate postures and repeated discipline. The piece presents these scenarios as an imaginative design for male m...

An illustrated discussion of binding women in traditional Japanese dress and binding cross-dressed subjects, combining commentary on rope arrangements with photographic examples.

A fictional account of a physical-education teacher who subjects a male student to coercive examinations, forced undressing, physical control, and humiliating restraint.

An erotic serial narrative about a woman taking a part-time job that draws her into increasingly coercive encounters involving customer observation, costume changes, exposure, and restraint.

A diary-style fictional confession follows a woman’s secret relationships, jealousy, emotional instability, and self-destructive responses as she struggles between illicit desire, social expectations, and marriage.

A captivity narrative recounts the abduction and confinement of a woman amid erotic coercion, physical restraint, humiliation, and escalating sadistic control, illustrated by staged scenes of bondage.

This illustrated sensational account presents and interprets “Dizism” as a supposed form of sadism among Chinese women, combining eroticized cross-cultural description with visual depictions of sexualized dominance and violence.

A sensationalized cross-cultural essay presents alleged examples of sadistic behavior among Chinese women, including female control, physical punishment, and sexualized domination of men, while comparing these practices with Japanese sexual attitudes.

Masago Jūroku examines the aesthetic and erotic significance attributed to women’s noses, discussing facial proportions, individual beauty, cultural standards, and the ways photographs and visual media shape judgments of feminine attractiveness.

Fujiki Senji surveys bondage scenes involving women in period films, discussing rope restraint, theatrical staging, actresses’ performances, audience response, and recurring images of captives, punishments, and eroticized historical violence in Japanese cinema...

This essay presents acupuncture as a historically rooted form of painful discipline and examines its continued therapeutic and psychological appeal through case examples involving pain, nerves, and masochistic sensation.

A first-person account of enema practices describes bodily sensations, erotic pleasure, and their incorporation into married sexual life, accompanied by discussion of equipment and methods.

This autobiographical fetish narrative recounts erotic experiences centered on ear cleaning and the use of a glass rod, combining intimate confession with illustrated scenes of sensory stimulation.

A serialized first-person erotic narrative follows a troubled marriage and its entanglement with jealousy, coercion, bondage, bodily punishment, and eventual police intervention. The story presents abusive marital and interpersonal power relations as dramatic...

This illustrated cultural-historical essay examines depictions of female abdominal cutting and seppuku in kusazōshi, combining literary anecdotes, family and revenge narratives, and commentary on the sexualized presentation of punishment and bodily violence.

An illustrated essay reflects on contemporary ideals of female beauty by comparing breasts, hips, genital appearance, pubic hair, skin coloration, and body proportions, relating physical features to erotic attraction and changing cultural standards.

A nightmare-like erotic fantasy follows a man’s pursuit and capture of a woman, escalating through coercion, physical restraint, captivity, and sexual violence in a heavily illustrated narrative.

A first-person account traces Yūko’s troubled and obsessive relationship with T through travel, domestic encounters, bondage, sexual coercion, masochistic submission, and reflections on desire, marriage, and loss.

A sensationalized account of Marie Madeleine, presented as a notorious female poisoner whose crimes and eroticized personality are situated within women’s criminal history.

A compassionate but melodramatic narrative follows an abused boy through institutional confinement, exploitation, and encounters with adults, emphasizing the emotional consequences of violence and neglect.

A first-person series of masochistic recollections describes fantasies and experiences involving punishment, restraint, humiliation, and bodily control, accompanied by erotic illustrations and a reader-submission notice.

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows Ayukawa Osen and related figures through betrayal, sword violence, captivity, and ultimately female seppuku, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of the confrontations and ritual death.

A serialized erotic narrative follows encounters involving desire, deception, captivity, police pursuit, imprisonment, and changing power relations between men and women, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

An advice column answers readers’ questions about sexual desire, marriage, gendered behavior, bodily appearance, fetishistic interests, and anxieties about relationships through a sexological and psychological lens.

An illustrated feature introduces and explains terminology for women’s sumo wrestling, using diagrams of grips, throws, holds, and winning or losing positions.

A contents-and-notices section lists articles, illustrations, photographs, and other features from the issue, alongside subscription, ordering, and publication information for readers.

A visual feature presents women placed in improvised restraint positions using chairs, frames, poles, carts, and other household or outdoor structures, with brief Japanese labels identifying the setups.

A sequence of erotic illustrations dramatizes a husband’s jealousy and desire for revenge after his wife elopes, presenting scenes of marital betrayal, punishment, and exposure.

An erotic illustration from “The White Queen of the Ruined City” depicts a dominant woman physically controlling and restraining a submissive man in a stylized fantasy scene.

This photographic feature presents staged American bondage scenes in which a woman is chained or strapped to beds, tables, and chairs in varied restrained positions.

An illustration and accompanying note depict the martyrdom of Saint Concordia, emphasizing her public stripping, whipping, killing, and sacred suffering.

An illustrated account of Saint Agnes recounts her refusal of a Roman prefect’s marriage proposal, her threatened sexual violence and execution, and her miraculous survival at the stake before being killed by the sword.

This erotic illustration titled “Flower and Flower” portrays two nude women in an intimate reclining embrace.

A historical illustrated feature surveys scenes of captivity, confinement, torture, and punishment, drawing on religious, classical, and legendary sources and emphasizing the spectacle of restrained bodies.

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows the courtesan Sayoye and the men around her through episodes of seduction, jealousy, coercion, bondage, punishment, and sexualized power struggles in an early-modern pleasure-quarter setting.

A serialized erotic narrative follows Chikako and other characters through jealousy, coercion, captivity, and escalating bondage and punishment, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and dialogue.

This erotic narrative depicts a summer encounter that develops into coercive sexual domination, confinement, physical punishment, and fetishistic attention to the bound body, with accompanying illustrated scenes.