Article Translations

A photographic feature demonstrates a woman secured in a single-leg suspension using rope, highlighting the pose, suspension method, and visual composition of Japanese rope bondage.

An erotic illustration titled “Shackles” depicts a restrained, pearl-adorned woman accompanied by threatening animal imagery, combining bondage motifs with dramatic fantasy illustration.

A serialized erotic narrative follows Shizuko after a chance train encounter draws her into a disturbing domestic world of seduction, coercion, captivity, and escalating bondage involving several women and a man.

An illustrated essay on overseas sadism examines clothing as a vehicle for fetishistic attraction, bodily restriction, discipline, humiliation, theatrical display, and eroticized visual fantasy, with examples from photographs, films, and performance imagery.

Minamikawa responds to former military policeman Hayashida Masaki’s confession, discussing wartime and postwar sexual violence, humiliation, voyeurism, and the disturbing eroticization of personal testimony.

A fictional account of an escaped mistress and her lover being recaptured and subjected to escalating bondage, humiliation, physical punishment, and sadistic sexual control.

An illustrated research essay examining seppuku through samurai history, historical documents, literature, journalism, and artistic representations, tracing changing ideas of honor, execution, gender, and erotic spectacle from the Edo period into modern Japan.

The seventh installment of Itō Seiu’s serialized erotic narrative follows encounters involving a theatrical milieu, sexual violence, murder, and sensational rumor, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

A first-person account describes escalating abdominal self-abuse and self-binding practices, including the psychological experience of seeking pain, restraint, and bodily control.

Murazato Eiichi presents an autobiographical account of same-sex desire and the development of self-binding fantasies and practices, linking them to adolescent experience and fetishistic compulsion.

A fictional account of a teacher’s obsessive fascination with a handsome male student develops into an episode of pursuit, stripping, physical control, and outdoor bondage.

Presented as a fetishist’s appeal to the magazine, this piece discusses foot and body-part fetishism, high-heel imagery, Western fetish publications, and the desire for more specialized reader-submitted material.

An erotic melodrama follows Misako through a troubled relationship and marriage in which jealousy, coercion, humiliation, and escalating rope restraint threaten her emotional and physical autonomy.

A first-person masochistic narrative depicts a servant’s erotic submission to a dominant woman, combining scenes of domestic service, humiliation, and fur-clad mistress imagery with reflections on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs and its Japanese tran...

An essay and illustrated feature examines female armpits, body hair, sweat, and odor as objects of erotic fascination, interweaving sexual-psychological commentary with personal anecdotes and sensational examples.

This first-person erotic reminiscence recalls a rural childhood relationship with an older sister and the narrator’s developing fixation on her armpits, body odor, bathing, and bodily exposure.

An extensively illustrated serialized erotic narrative depicts a young woman and boy enacting ritualized abdominal cutting, bloodletting, suffering, and death in a stylized historical setting.

This personal and reflective essay examines fascination with the navel and abdomen through bodily aesthetics, intimate experience, fetishistic imagery, and references to psychological and sexological interpretation.

A translated and annotated selection from a 1901 German work surveys historical examples and cultural interpretations of cruel women, linking female violence and domination to changing sexual and social attitudes.

A sensational historical account of British colonial rule in Bengal and India, emphasizing famine, mass death, punitive violence, and the humiliation of the colonized population.

An extended essay on the repression and reshaping of women’s sexuality under Japanese patriarchal family and marriage systems, connecting domestic subordination with wartime and postwar experiences and changing ideas of female autonomy.

A serialized erotic fiction featuring a married couple who develop increasingly elaborate nighttime bondage games, with the wife restrained, tied, and displayed in domestic settings amid fetishistic imagery and voyeuristic narration.

An essay on the “mask” of the sadistic woman explores female dominance, sadistic self-presentation, and the erotic significance of facial features—especially the nose—through discussion, staged scenarios, photographs, and illustrations. It presents concealment...

A first-person secret letter from a masochistic man describes his long-standing fantasies of female control, rope restraint, nudity, punishment, and staged bondage, accompanied by editorial commentary and erotic illustrations. The piece frames these desires as...

This correspondence feature presents and answers a reader’s letter concerning erotic photographs, bondage fantasies, discreet meetings, and the emotional complications of exchanging intimate material. The editorial reply treats the exchange as part of the maga...

This serialized erotic narrative follows the married Shōzō and Yuki as literary ambitions, financial pressures, jealousy, and encounters with the enigmatic S lead into increasingly coercive sexual games involving domination, submission, and bondage.

A sensational spy-prison narrative traces the persecution and captivity of women connected with Shanghai and wartime China, depicting interrogation, torture, sexualized humiliation, executions, and the harsh operations of an international espionage organizatio...

A literary-critical essay examines depictions of coercion, domination, violence, and disciplinary sexuality in modern Japanese fiction, connecting these motifs to military experience, gender relations, and readers’ emotional responses.

An extended first-person erotic narrative presents a woman’s fantasies and experiences of sadistic and masochistic sexuality, including bondage, humiliation, marital conflict, punishment, and the tension between sexual desire and social respectability, accompa...

A recurring personal essay or reader contribution reflects on erotic fascination with women’s noses and responds to the magazine’s earlier discussion and imagery of this body-part fetish.

A nose-focused aesthetic and fetishistic essay compares three forms of the female nose, using photographic examples and discussing beauty standards, cosmetic presentation, and attempts to emphasize or alter the nose’s appearance.

A mixed reader-and-editorial section presents correspondence, forthcoming issue announcements, subscription and ordering information, manuscript guidelines, and illustrated instructions for tying or binding garments.

A photographic feature presents beauty and flexibility exercises performed with ropes, showing several posed body positions and movements.

An illustrated historical account recounts the legendary Mitsumata tragedy, in which the courtesan Takao’s loyalty to her lover leads to her brutal execution, while situating the tale within Edo-period pleasure-district culture.

An illustrated fantasy of seaside punishment depicts women subjected to drowning, burial, chaining, and other forms of captivity, combining a fictional beach murder narrative with classical Andromeda-like imagery.

An erotic illustration reimagines the Dōjōji legend of Anchin and the woman who becomes a serpent, emphasizing supernatural transformation, bondage, and fatal passion.

A Western-style erotic illustration portrays a confident dominatrix in corsetry, stockings, high heels, and holding a whip.

A photographic feature presents Miss Beck in fetish attire using a whip while staging a circus-like pet-training performance involving a human figure presented as a cat.

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound spread-eagled to an ornate cross, framing crucifixion as both a brutal historical punishment and a visually seductive spectacle.

An erotic historical-punishment illustration shows a woman bound to a powerful ox in a scene evoking the execution method of ox-splitting, accompanied by a condemnation of wartime brutality.