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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...

A long first-person confession in which Yūko Furukawa recounts a troubled marriage, sexual masochism, bondage and punishment fantasies, and the psychological conflicts surrounding desire, shame, guilt, and self-knowledge. Illustrated episodes and dramatic mono...

Azuma Shin’s first installment of “Notes on Overseas Sadism” compares Japanese and Western approaches to sadistic practices, focusing especially on gags and other restraint devices. It surveys historical and theatrical examples—including elaborate masks, punit...

Part four of Matsui Kanoko’s autobiographical erotic narrative follows her shifting infatuations and encounters with several men, including a clothing-shop clerk and university students. The account culminates in a seaside episode involving swimsuits, mutual t...

Nishi Sadao nostalgically recalls the long tobacco pipe as an eroticized object, connecting childhood memories, domestic scenes, and illustrated or cinematic images with later adult fascination. The essay also reflects on shared smoking rituals and the pipe’s...

Taya Keisei surveys and reflects on representations of female seppuku, discussing historical examples, medical plausibility, sensational imagery, and the cultural fascination surrounding women’s self-disembowelment. The essay considers how erotic illustrations...

An autobiographical confession by a man describing same-sex attraction and intimate relationships with male comrades during military service, followed by marriage to a woman and the persistence of forbidden same-sex desire in his domestic life. The account emp...

Two illustrated episodes from a masochist’s notebook present eroticized historical bathing fantasies centered on powerful women, servants, and subordination. The scenes draw on figures such as Anne Boleyn and Poppaea and combine luxurious baths with enslavemen...

A fictional first-person account follows a woman through an unsettling erotic underworld of captivity, surveillance, and coercive encounters. As she enters the titular “room of evil,” power shifts between men and women through bondage, sadistic threats, voyeur...

Murata Namiko recounts her first experience as a bound model during an outdoor photography session. She describes being tied to a tree and later restrained in staged scenes, moving from apprehension and discomfort toward familiarity with rope bondage and the p...

A first-person account by Kishida Eiko describing an imagined and eventually enacted episode of abdominal self-cutting with a razor during a bathing trip. The narrative emphasizes the writer’s fascination with pain, blood, bodily sensation, fear, and the confl...

The second part of Oniyama Kōsaku’s theoretical essay classifies diverse forms of “perversion,” including sadism, masochism, fetishism, scopophilia, exhibitionism, necrophilia, zoophilia, and same-sex desire. It considers their psychological mechanisms, social...

A first-person memoir-style erotic narrative attributed to Dr. Yamikumo, recounting increasingly extreme encounters involving coercion, bondage, humiliation, sadistic violence, and medicalized sexual experimentation. The episodes move between fetishistic fanta...

The third installment of Itō Seiu’s essay examines sexual fluids, nude modeling, and the relationship between eroticized bodies and modern visual culture. It discusses artists, models, photography, painting, exploitation, and changing sexual attitudes while re...

The concluding installment of Hida Ryōji’s serialized SM fiction follows a woman who is abducted, restrained, humiliated, and prepared for staged photographic display. The narrative combines captivity, elaborate rope and apparatus bondage, sensory restriction,...

Moriki Aizō’s translated continuation of Das Grausame Weib presents historical and anecdotal accounts of women who exercise violent authority over enslaved or subordinated people, including whipping and other forms of corporal punishment. The piece frames fema...

A fictional first-person account of a young man who becomes a female employer’s servant and sexual subordinate. The Madam and her assistant enforce his obedience through stripping, verbal humiliation, corporal punishment with a riding crop, and other disciplin...

An erotic illustration feature depicting women subjected to circus-like rope-binding positions, including inverted suspension, pole bindings, and other elaborate restraints. Captions identify the various bondage arrangements.

An illustrated historical account of public exposure and punishment in the Yoshiwara pleasure district, describing the former inspection site and the punishment reportedly imposed there on an arrested flower seller. The accompanying scene portrays a public spe...

A visual feature presents women as eroticized “ponies” being displayed and auctioned, including scenes of staged presentation, pony-style costume, and submission. The photographs emphasize spectacle, labeling, and the transformation of women into fetishized pr...

A short visual feature titled “Flagellation” depicts women using whips and a restrained woman equipped for punishment. The images focus on eroticized whipping, bodily control, and bondage.

A staged photograph shows a woman seated on the waist of a prone, apparently restrained figure, emphasizing a physically dominant female pose.

A photographic feature presenting foreign bondage imagery includes a prone person bound with rope in a posed restraint scene, with an accompanying note drawing attention to the method of tying the knot.

A photographic instructional feature presenting the takate kote, or upper-body arm-and-chest tie, through staged bondage poses. The images emphasize the rope arrangement, immobilized posture, and visual presentation of the bound model.

A visual portfolio titled “Capture-Play Stage Photographs,” showing staged scenes of women being captured, restrained, and displayed in outdoor and theatrical settings. The photographs draw on period capture imagery and dramatic bondage tableaux.

A sequential erotic illustrated narrative follows two young women through bicycle and railway-track accidents, scenes of danger, bodily vulnerability, and apparent rescue or aftermath. The feature presents railway violence as a sensational, staged spectacle ra...