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Specialty S&M

October 1980

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Cover of Specialty S&M, October 1980

Issue Details

Volume
6
Issue
6
PDF pages
223

Summary

This October 1980 special temporary extra issue of Specialty S&M is an overwhelmingly photographic publication organized around staged bondage, restraint, corporal torment, humiliation, and eroticized endurance. The cover identifies it as Special Temporary Extra Issue No. 6, while the interior also labels it the third 1980 collection. A formal contents spread near the front divides the publication into an opening illustrated feature, a long color-photo sequence, a later monochrome photo gallery, a reader-submitted secret-photo section, and an overseas S&M report.

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The issue begins with Yamaguchi Tsubaki’s illustrated Secret Diagrams of Sensual Pleasure and Shame, a sequence of line drawings concentrating on stylized bondage positions. This is followed by Kurosaki Sensui’s Reflections on Female Seppuku, a short photographic and textual feature using ritualized abdominal cutting as its central fantasy. The large color section then develops a succession of staged scenarios: a married woman named Kue subjected to bondage and breast torment; candle and suspension scenes; inverted suspension; enema imagery; forced postures; outdoor bondage; and photographed sessions featuring Akiko Honma and Shizue Takada. The color work emphasizes domestic interiors, tatami rooms, rustic buildings, and outdoor locations, frequently presenting the sequence as a progression of poses and techniques rather than as narrative fiction.

The later black-and-white gallery broadens this documentary-performance style. Honeyed Banquet, Michiko’s Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse, Secret Record of a Young Wife’s Training, a women’s sumo sequence, Long-Cherished Wish for Tight Binding, and Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women move between rope bondage, sexualized wrestling, restraint apparatus, marking, gagging, and posed humiliation. Subsequent features such as Portraits of Beautiful Women in Loving Abuse, Crotch Torment, Elegy, and Sweet Play Tied to Trees continue the emphasis on bodies arranged for photographic scrutiny, with settings ranging from bedrooms and tiled interiors to wooded outdoor sites.

The closing portion is particularly important for the magazine’s community identity. A Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special presents amateur or privately supplied photographs credited to multiple contributors, including Akiko Honma, Misako Sano, and Eiji Hosokawa, among others. These pages shift the visual texture away from the more controlled editorial shoots toward personal collections and reader-produced material. The final Overseas S&M Play Information: America installment introduces foreign bondage imagery and commentary before an editorial afterword on the last page. As a whole, the issue functions less as a conventional article magazine than as an extended photographic catalog of contemporary S&M practices, fantasies, models, and amateur participation, demonstrating the central role of visual documentation and reader exchange in Specialty S&M’s editorial identity.

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Table of Contents 26 items
  1. Secret Diagrams of Sensual Pleasure and Shame by Yamaguchi Tsubaki
    6–13
  2. Reflections on Female Seppuku by Kurosaki Sensui
    14–18
  3. Color Photo Record: Kue, the Married Woman Who Longs for Abuse
    17
  4. Agony of Breast Crushing
    21–24
  5. Suspended by All Four Limbs and Scorched by Candle
    25–27
  6. Prelude to a Young Wife's Lustful Indulgence
    28–31
  7. Candle Stand of Inverted Suspension with Legs Spread
    32–37
  8. After a 2,000 cc Enema by Irrigator
    38–39
  9. Agony of a Forced Bent Posture
    40–45
  10. Invitation to a Trance-like Dream Realm
    46–51
  11. Outdoor Training
    52–59
  12. Return Feast of Masochistic Pleasure with Mrs. Akiko Honma
    60–61
  13. First Technique Session with Mrs. Shizue Takada
    62–66
  14. Bondage Passion Photo Gallery: Honeyed Banquet
    65
  15. Michiko's Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse
    86–93
  16. Secret Record of a Young Wife's Training
    94–100
  17. Woman Tomi: Women's Sumo
    101–102
  18. Long-Cherished Wish for Tight Binding
    103–106
  19. Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women
    107–138
  20. Portraits of Beautiful Women in Loving Abuse
    139–144
  21. Crotch Torment
    145–154
  22. Elegy
    155–160
  23. Shame and Punishment Photo Feature
    161–167
  24. Sweet Play Tied to Trees
    168–174
  25. Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special
    175–212
  26. Overseas Correspondent Report: S&M Play Information, America Part 5
    213–223

Highlights

  • The opening illustrated feature by Yamaguchi Tsubaki presents a sustained series of stylized female bondage poses, establishing the issue's visual emphasis before the photographic sections begin. (PDF pp. 6–13).
  • Kurosaki Sensui's Reflections on Female Seppuku combines text and staged photography around a ritualized cutting fantasy, standing apart from the rope-centered material that dominates most of the issue. (PDF pp. 14–18).
  • The principal color-photo section unfolds as a long sequence of distinct S&M scenarios involving restraint, suspension, candle torment, forced posture, enemas, outdoor bondage, and photographed sessions with named participants. (PDF pp. 19–66).
  • The black-and-white feature Michiko's Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse presents a sustained photographic scenario of bondage, writing on the body, and domination rather than isolated glamour photographs. (PDF pp. 86–93).
  • Secret Record of a Young Wife's Training develops a staged domestic training scenario using blindfolding, binding, restraint, and bodily positioning. (PDF pp. 94–100).
  • Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women expands the issue's photographic format to multiple subjects and varied indoor and outdoor restraint situations. (PDF pp. 107–138).
  • The Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special occupies a substantial late section and foregrounds privately produced and amateur S&M photography, making reader participation part of the issue's editorial structure. (PDF pp. 175–212).
  • The concluding Overseas S&M Play Information: America installment introduces foreign bondage photographs and commentary, extending the magazine's visual field beyond Japanese contributors and settings. (PDF pp. 213–223).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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