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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.

A submerged woman is bound to an anchor and helplessly dragged underwater, presenting water punishment as a fatal scene of captivity and restraint.

An erotic illustration depicts a woman amid leopards, chains, and bones, accompanied by a dramatic caption suggesting captivity and peril.

A staged monochrome photograph presents a kimono-clad woman in a distressed, inwardly folded pose, emphasizing her elaborate disordered hair and costume.

A monochrome photograph features a kimono-clad woman posed low to the ground while displaying the traditional flattened Shimada hairstyle known as tsubushi shimada.

A photographic bondage scene shows model Haruhi Rumi restrained with rope while tormentor Itabuki Makiko counts to one hundred, emphasizing sustained restraint and endurance.

A step-by-step photographic explanation demonstrates how to bind a model’s wrists, arms, torso, and legs with rope, including wrapping the rope across the chest and securing the body in a completed restraint.

A staged photographic scene depicts Haruhi Rumi physically restraining Itabuki Makiko in a wrestling-like hold while the captive protests against excessive pain.

A photo sequence demonstrates a rope-free torment game in which a dominant woman physically restrains and overpowers a pleading male participant through positional control.

A staged portrait presents model Kasuga Rumi in a characteristic pose, holding a long cane while awaiting the appearance of a captive or subjected model.

A tense staged photograph shows Kasuga Rumi poised to swing a whip, emphasizing the anticipation and threat of imminent corporal punishment.

A photographic scene depicts a dominant woman disciplining and humiliating a male “human dog” who has failed to learn his tricks.

A photographic scene shows a woman taunting and triumphing over a bound male submissive while contemplating his further punishment.

An illustrated domestic scene presents a newlywed quarrel in which the wife is tied up and threatened with being made to drink salt water as her husband reacts to her appearance.

An erotic illustration shows a newlywed dressed for housework bound upright while a household cat plays around her feet in the morning light.

A sequence of erotic illustrations presents nude figures tied into varied positions on and around a folding ladder, emphasizing the ladder as a bondage apparatus.