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A staged photographic demonstration of a woman blindfolded and secured in a seated or kneeling position against a pillar. The image emphasizes immobilization through rope binding and the use of a fixed household support.

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating hands-and-feet suspension and a single-rope binding method. The images show rope arrangements that restrict the limbs and suspend or secure the subject in a floor-based pose.

A sequence of erotic illustrations set around a storehouse depicts women in vulnerable, physically constrained positions, including figures bound near or against wooden structures. The scenes emphasize staged restraint and helplessness rather than explanatory...

An illustrated dramatic sequence titled “The Drunken Demon” portrays a predatory man and several women in an outdoor setting, with scenes of sexual menace, vulnerability, restraint, and flight. The visual narrative uses coercive erotic fantasy and the presence...

A first-person record of life in a juvenile prison, recounting the narrator’s arrest, confinement, harsh institutional discipline, forced labor, surveillance, beatings, and humiliating treatment by guards and fellow inmates. The illustrated narrative emphasize...

A serialized erotic fantasy set around a sinister “room of evil,” where characters manipulate, threaten, bind, and attempt to subjugate one another. The narrative emphasizes coercive encounters, captivity, rope restraint, humiliation, and shifting struggles fo...

A woman recounts a marriage marked by coercive sexual demands, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and her husband’s sadistic violence. Framed as a psychological and social discussion, the confession and accompanying illustrations consider consent, women’s autonom...

A masochistic notebook combining historical anecdotes, imagined scenes, and reflections on eroticized domination, restraint, humiliation, and female authority. The text ranges across Chinese and European historical settings while treating bondage devices and c...

A historical account of slavery and cruelty, focusing on the capture, transport, forced labor, punishment, sexual violence, and resistance of enslaved people, particularly in the Americas. Illustrated scenes emphasize the brutality of slaveholders and the suff...

A first-person account by a Japanese man describing the development of his same-sex desire, relationships with younger men, emotional attachments, and the social pressures surrounding secrecy, work, and domestic life. The confession presents homosexual experie...

A polemical essay that praises sexual “perversion” as a condition exceeding ordinary sexuality and interprets it as a sign of psychological, cultural, and even philosophical development. Across several chapters, the author contrasts conventional and unconventi...

A serialized erotic narrative follows a shop owner’s increasingly intimate encounters with Kazuko and a married couple, moving from flirtation and employment into elaborate scenes of rope binding, restraint, commands, and domestic sexual power. The story empha...

The second installment of Azuma Shin’s “Overseas Sadism Notes” examines gagging in Western and Japanese sadistic imagery. It compares gag types and their visual effects, discusses rope and cloth restraints, and considers examples from imported comics, films, a...

A long first-person erotic reportage attributed to Madame Diana, describing her intense involvement with horseback riding, riding instruction, and equestrian circles. The account links riding technique, bodily exertion, gendered power, and sexual sensation, in...

A first-person continuation about a man’s longstanding desire to wear women’s clothing and his wife’s involvement in helping him dress, apply makeup, and assemble an elaborate feminine appearance. The account culminates in staged posing and photography, presen...

The fifth installment of Matsui Raikō’s first-person serialized narrative follows the narrator’s shifting romantic and erotic fascinations through encounters at cinemas, cafés, theatrical companies, and performance events. Her attraction to performers and arti...

The fourth installment of a research talk examines Japanese seppuku and related forms of female self-disembowelment through historical cases, literary sources, medical observations, and period illustrations. It discusses ritual procedure, wounds and bodily eff...

A first-person account of an M/S relationship between a medical student and a sadistic woman, developing through correspondence, meetings, and increasingly elaborate scenes of rope bondage, gagging, blindfolding, suspension, and domestic restraint. The narrati...

A historical erotic narrative that returns to Meiji-era theater and popular entertainment, portraying onnagata performance, provincial social life, erotic intrigue, arranged marriage, and coercive relationships. The text is accompanied by dramatic erotic illus...

A fictionalized editorial encounter follows a young, sexually inexperienced writer whose sensational manuscript combines murder, striptease, coercion, and imagined sexual violence. The surrounding narrative contrasts literary ambition and editorial judgment wi...

A first-person account of a young factory worker subjected to coercive discipline, humiliation, and violent punishment by a female supervisor and fellow workers. The narrative combines workplace control, bodily punishment, and eroticized submission within a wa...

A former military policeman recounts wartime encounters involving the detention, abuse, sexual violation, and killing of women in occupied territory. The memoir presents military violence and atrocity through sensational testimony, including the treatment of w...

A fictional tale set at a snowbound northern hot-spring inn, where a brutal proprietor exploits and confines women associated with the bathhouse. Attempts at escape lead to pursuit, capture, rope restraint, humiliation, and further abuse amid the isolated wint...

A first-person confession by a man who describes being raised among sisters, developing a strongly feminine identity, and wearing women’s clothing from childhood onward. He recounts cross-dressing, family and social responses, and his later efforts to live ope...

An autobiographical account of the author’s development of sadistic interests, beginning in childhood through exposure to newspaper reports, fiction, illustrations, and imagined scenes of abuse. The narrative also describes later fantasies and experiences invo...

A first-person fetish autobiography about the author’s longstanding fascination with women wearing eye bandages and related forms of visual concealment. He traces the interest from childhood impressions through magazine images, encounters with women in everyda...

A dark erotic narrative framed as a memorial for a dead dog, in which the narrator revisits a psychologically charged relationship with Misao and another woman. The story develops themes of female cruelty, emotional domination, humiliation, and remembered bodi...

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains passages from the 1901 German illustrated book Das Grausame Weib, presenting anecdotes of women exercising violent authority over male servants, prisoners, and dependents. The article emphasizes whipping, riding crops, coe...

A first-person erotic narrative follows Kyōko’s experiments with introducing air into her body to produce an increasingly swollen, “floating” abdomen. The account combines bodily transformation, pressure, discomfort, and fetishistic attention to intestinal and...

A mixed editorial and community section announces prize-winning works, reproduces or discusses reader submissions and correspondence, and provides publication, subscription, and advertising information. It documents the magazine’s contests, editorial operation...

An illustrated erotic fantasy centered on bizarre or cruel hypnosis, with figures placed in scenes of sexual control, restraint, and punishment. The artwork presents domination and bondage as theatrical, imaginative scenarios rather than documentary scenes.

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating how to apply a gag, showing the restrained subject and the placement and securing of the gag.

A photographic demonstration of pillar binding (hashira shibari), showing a seated subject secured with rope in a compact, restrained posture.

An illustrated erotic feature presents painful contortions and one-foot toe suspension as supposed “beauty exercises,” framing female endurance and display through bondage imagery.

An illustrated scenario depicts a woman, still dressed, restrained over a basket filled with eels. The accompanying text invokes instinctive fear of snakes and eels as the basis for an imaginative torment scene.

An illustrated portfolio presenting European and American images of cruel or dominant women, including scenes of whipping, punishment, sexual discipline, and female control. Captions identify works such as Das Grausame Weib and other imported illustrations, wi...

A staged erotic photograph titled “Dragging Around” depicts a partially nude woman bound with ropes and pulled or led through an interior space, emphasizing forced movement and physical restraint.

Kuruki Sakae reflects on the emotional and erotic appeal of tying his wife, combining personal memories of marital bondage with observations on desire, jealousy, freedom, and sexual psychology. The essay discusses rope restraint as an intimate form of marital...

A first-person account of an abused boy’s experiences of arrest, confinement in a juvenile prison, forced undressing, physical punishment, humiliation, and sexualized mistreatment. The narrative emphasizes the fear, degradation, and lasting psychological effec...

A personal erotic letter addressed to Yashima Sawako, in which Eri Mizue reflects on an intense fascination with women’s beauty, same-sex desire, and fantasies of female vulnerability, restraint, and erotic spectacle. The correspondence also discusses how beau...