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A surreal erotic dream illustration depicts a nude woman amid candle wax, a knife, a snake, and chain-like restraint imagery, creating an atmosphere of danger and fantasy.

A first-person essay reflects on romantic sadism through observations of couples, jealousy, literary and cinematic images, and the author’s own attraction to eroticized domination and suffering.

This historical erotic tale set in the Tokugawa period follows intrigue within a samurai household, forbidden desire, abduction, interrogation, and escalating restraint and corporal punishment culminating in violent sexualized retribution.

An illustrated essay examines blindfolds and masks as devices of sensory restriction and erotic stimulation, discussing their psychological and aesthetic effects through photographic examples and a reader contribution.

A personal confession traces a man's masochistic development from adolescent fantasies through adult relationships, describing his attraction to female control, bondage, humiliation, and sadomasochistic domestic encounters.

An erotic narrative follows a beautiful adolescent whose unusual appearance and vulnerability make him the object of classmates' curiosity, coercive undressing, physical inspection, and voyeuristic fascination.

Presented as an exchange between husband and wife, this erotic correspondence reflects on marital intimacy, mutual bondage, role reversal, and the couple's effort to incorporate restraint into everyday married life.

A first-person confession traces the author’s lifelong fixation on young women’s feet, including collecting, smelling, stealing, and seeking opportunities for intimate contact with footwear and feet.

A woman recounts a marital erotic role-play centered on seppuku, involving ritualized violence, knife play, restraint, and the dangerously blurred boundary between staged fantasy and real injury.

This extended erotic narrative follows Miki’s obsessive relationship with Kiyomi through jealousy, domination, sexual coercion, punishment, restraint, and recurring fascination with her feet and body.

A memoir of the author’s foster mother recalls her devoted care during his childhood, intimate domestic routines, and the lasting grief and gratitude surrounding her death.

A first-person account of an intense fascination with corsets describes corset wearing, tight-lacing, bodily display, and erotic encounters centered on the garment, accompanied by fetish-oriented illustrations.

The sixth installment presents a nonfiction-style erotic account of regional performances and sexual entertainments involving women, ropes, binding, and suspension, while reflecting on their historical precedents and techniques.

A reflective masochist’s notebook that examines masochistic psychology through literary discussion and sensational historical anecdotes involving colonial violence, military discipline, punishment, and fetishistic garments.

A dramatized historical account of Shirakiya Okoma, an Edo-period sexual and criminal scandal involving servants, illicit desire, conspiracy, murder, judicial judgment, and harsh execution.

A reader’s letter responding to Dr. Nakaguma’s discussion of seppuku play, describing an elaborate erotic fantasy of ritualized abdominal cutting, spectatorship, and staged violence.

An autobiographical confession by a male masochist recounts his developing desire for female domination and his elaborate experiences of bondage, restraint, punishment, pain, and humiliation. The narrative presents these practices as both psychologically compe...

A translated and annotated survey of “cruel women” draws on a 1901 German illustrated book to present historical and ethnographic examples of female cruelty, slavery, corporal punishment, sexual domination, and specialized restraint devices. It combines sensat...

An illustrated instructional feature presents women in a series of bound, suspended, inverted, and apparatus-assisted restraint positions, with numbered figures showing varied configurations.

Presented as a man’s secret diary, this illustrated first-person narrative recounts cross-dressing for a stage performance and subsequent humiliating, physically restrained experiences during group activities.

A staged photographic portrait by André De Dienes showing a nude woman reclining beside a large black cat. The composition emphasizes the contrast between the woman’s body and the animal’s watchful presence.

A visual collection of Western pulp-fiction covers and interior-style illustrations featuring imperiled, reclining, or restrained women, masked or armed men, and sensational adventure scenes. The pages prominently identify authors and titles including Leslie C...

An illustrated report on modern execution technology, focusing on the electric chair and execution-chamber procedures. The feature presents the apparatus and stages of a condemned prisoner’s electrocution alongside related execution imagery.

A photographic feature presenting American women performing purported beauty and body-shaping exercises, including partner-assisted poses and strenuous floor exercises. The accompanying text frames these routines as an imported form of indoor recreation and ph...

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows the troubled relationships and violent entanglements of the characters Masajirō and Masakichi, combining jealousy, coercion, captivity, and domestic sexual conflict. The accompanying illustrations dramatize the story...

An illustrated visual sequence titled “Murder in the Night Fog” depicts a nocturnal encounter that develops into violence, pursuit, and apparent murder. Its sequential panels function as a dramatized erotic-crime scene rather than documentary reportage.

A serialized crime-and-erotic suspense story follows a male narrator investigating a mysterious woman linked to gangsters, a murder, and a series of threatening encounters. The illustrated narrative features abduction, physical restraint, pursuit, rescue attem...

An illustrated historical account of American gang culture, tracing the rise of organized crime from nineteenth-century urban gangs through Prohibition-era bootlegging and later gang conflicts. It profiles notorious figures and episodes involving violence, rob...

An illustrated serialized erotic drama set in a Tokyo striptease theater, following backstage encounters among performers, managers, and visitors. The narrative develops through seduction, jealousy, coercive sexual situations, and staged displays of bodily con...

A serialized historical erotic narrative depicting a violent confrontation among rival gangs and swordsmen at Akiba. The story combines combat, murder, abduction, captivity, and coercive sexualized domination, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of the battl...

A first-person male narrator recounts a series of encounters with vulnerable or intoxicated women, escalating into coercion, bodily violence, apparent killings, and attempts to evade discovery. The episodic illustrated narrative combines sexualized domination...

A translated exposé of American police interrogation practices, focusing on the coercive “third degree,” physical abuse, electric shocks, intimidation, and forced confessions. It also recounts case examples involving murder investigations, suspicious deaths, a...

The first installment of a historical erotic crime narrative about the master thief Nippon Saemon and his associates, including Shōbei and Akiko. Set amid Edo-period households and robberies, the story combines theft, seduction, coercion, captivity, and illust...

The first installment of a sensationalized account of American gangster John Dillinger, tracing his troubled youth, turn to robbery, prison escapes, armed bank raids, relationships with women, and escalating confrontations with police and the FBI. Illustrated...

An illustrated serialized SM fiction following Tanaka, the head of a supposedly respectable company, as he recruits attractive young women and manipulates them into increasingly coercive sexual situations. The episode depicts staged seduction, humiliation, dom...

An illustrated sensational crime investigation examines the mysterious death of Kiriko Yamagiri, whose body was found in a wooded area. Through interviews with investigators and forensic discussion of bloodstains, wounds, hair, semen, footprints, blood types,...

A sensational erotic adventure set in French West Africa follows encounters among European traders, a Pygmy woman named Mika, and other figures amid tales of exotic perfumes, aphrodisiacs, jungle travel, and colonial mystery. The narrative develops into coerci...

An illustrated survey of screen villains and gangster-film stars, tracing the development of cinematic criminal archetypes through performers such as Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and others. It discusses how distin...

An illustrated sensational account of boxing match-fixing, describing corrupt promoters, manipulated bouts, gambling interests, and the physical dangers faced by boxers. The article presents boxing as a violent commercial spectacle shaped by deception and expl...

A crime-adventure narrative about an attempt to rob a fortune from a shipboard or seabed vault, involving elaborate planning, diving equipment, technical ingenuity, and dangerous underwater operations. The story follows the scheme’s escalating risks and the ch...