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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.

A sexological essay examines sexually atypical desire and behavior, distinguishing abnormality from ordinary variation while discussing psychological factors, criminality, treatment, and social judgment.

A sensational account of a female Communist Party member implicated in a brutal murder, tracing the police investigation, her escape and armed resistance, and her eventual capture and punishment.

An autobiographical memoir recounts the author’s decade-long transformation from fearing moxibustion to pursuing its intense heat and pain as erotic pleasure, including repeated treatments, bodily scars, and intimate encounters with a fellow enthusiast.

A sequence of fictionalized episodes presents adulterous and emotionally distorted encounters involving married couples, widows, lovers, jealousy, secrecy, and erotic manipulation, framed through literary storytelling and commentary.

This serialized erotic adventure follows Julia, a female animal trainer caught among criminals and captors, as coercion, confinement, whipping, and forced performances with wild animals shape her ordeal and eventual transformation into a spectacle. The story c...

A twelve-part pseudo-sexological survey of “abnormality” presents case histories, dialogues, historical anecdotes, and illustrations concerning fetishism, sadism, masochism, exhibitionism, gender variance, same-sex desire, sexual violence, and other taboo prac...

A fictionalized historical narrative about Oda Nobunaga’s relationships with male attendants, especially the young Mori Ranmaru, blending battlefield history, courtly intrigue, and eroticized male love.

A serialized sensational erotic mystery about a woman marked by breast tattoos, her sexual allure and unusual bodily practices, and the investigations, relationships, and disturbing incidents surrounding her.

A serialized erotic narrative follows schoolgirls subjected to escalating teacher-imposed discipline, bondage, humiliation, and corporal punishment, framed through the girls’ fear, curiosity, and conflicted responses. The story emphasizes institutional authori...

A serialized narrative set around a women’s bicycle racetrack depicts female racers, spectators, gambling, domestic tensions, and eroticized competition, linking athletic display and public spectatorship with sexual rivalry and personal vulnerability.

A fictional summer narrative presenting two erotic encounters shaped by attraction, infidelity, secrecy, and emotionally charged relations between men and women.

A serialized sadomasochistic thriller follows a young woman through seduction, coercive control, confinement, and a violent nail-bed ordeal involving doctors, professors, and other observers.

Framed as letters from a young obstetrician-gynecologist, this eroticized medical narrative describes intimate examinations, instruments, operations, and the unequal power relations between physicians and female patients.

A fictional first-person account follows a female factory worker who becomes a domestic servant and is subjected by her employer to coercive sexual exploitation, humiliation, and bondage. Illustrated episodes emphasize her enforced submission and loss of auton...

The fourth installment of a serialized erotic novel, “Rainbow of the Enchantress,” depicts an artistically framed encounter with a mysterious, sexually charged woman through scenes of modeling, spectatorship, fetishized bodies, and erotic domination.