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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...

A single erotic illustration depicts a nude woman draped over a pine-tree branch amid dense needles, turning a natural setting into an image of torment, exposure, and bodily vulnerability.

A photographic feature depicts a woman restrained in a prone position on a bed, with her limbs secured and her tearful expression evoking an imagined spanking scene. The accompanying text emphasizes the suggestive absence of both an opposing figure and a whip,...

A close-up photograph shows a man’s wrist being firmly stepped on by a woman wearing a black high heel. The caption presents the image as expressing female superiority, male submission, and the contrasting satisfaction of both participants.

A photographic feature depicting a whip-wielding woman dominating a man presented as her human horse. The accompanying images emphasize forceful sadistic performance, submission, and the theatrical staging of corporal punishment.

A sadistic historical fantasy in which the mysterious Mirror Demon and the beautiful Komachi lure victims into an underground chamber and subject them to elaborate bindings, suspension, and torture. The illustrated narrative combines supernatural menace, grote...

An extended erotic essay on fascination with men’s loincloths, following personal encounters, underwear-washing scenes, and the narrator’s escalating interest in male bodies and loincloth display. The piece treats the loincloth as both a clothing fetish and a...

A masochistic erotic fantasy set around young men and their social circle, depicting submission, humiliation, bondage, beatings, gagging, and enforced nudity. The narrative moves through imagined scenes of capture and discipline, emphasizing male submissive de...

An erotic narrative follows Hiroshi, a beautiful young man whose encounters with a dominant woman develop through staged seduction, restraint, humiliation, and sadistic punishment. The illustrated serial emphasizes female control and the protagonist’s conflict...

An illustrated instructional feature surveys interrogation, arrest, and torture methods, including restraint with ropes, gagging, pursuit, and the use of implements. It combines practical descriptions with historical discussion of policing and punishment from...

The editorial department announces the interim results of the 200,000-yen manuscript competition, listing selected submissions and their authors. It explains that the entries have undergone preliminary review and that final judging and publication decisions wi...

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative centered on Miko and encounters with a male dressmaker in and around a tailoring shop. Tailoring, clothing, exposure, teasing, and escalating sexual power and humiliation shape the story’s episodes.

A sensational, semi-documentary account of male same-sex desire, presenting anecdotes about relationships between men of different ages and social positions alongside commentary on sexual psychology. The article is accompanied by eroticized illustrations depic...

An autobiographical confession by Itō Seiu describing his obsessive relationship with his wife, including episodes of illness, domestic restraint, sexual experimentation, and the production of photographs and drawings. The narrative presents bondage and marita...

An essay compares Japanese and Western forms of masochism through anecdotes about erotic performance, spectatorship, gender roles, and imagined or observed encounters. It considers differences in masochistic psychology, behavior, social setting, and cultural e...

A visual gallery presents historical and imported erotic illustrations and related imagery depicting sexualized restraint, domination, fetishistic attention to bodies and clothing, and theatrical erotic scenes. Captions frame the images as examples of changing...