Strange Mandala

Kuriyama Sakugo, credit uncertain

A grotesque supernatural crime narrative about an occult “Mandala” cult, its charismatic teacher, and the violent fate of investigators and followers. The story features murdered and mutilated women, captivity, ritualistic menace, and the eventual…

A Record of Perverse Sexuality

An encyclopedic survey of “perverse” sexual behaviors, presenting historical anecdotes, literary references, clinical descriptions, and illustrated examples of voyeurism, exhibitionism, sadism, masochism, fetishism, and related practices. The article treats these behaviors as psychological and…

Two Tales of Perverse Rape

Takahashi Tetsu

Two grotesque narrative episodes depict sexually violent and coercive encounters, framed through sensationalized erotic storytelling and popular entertainment. The material combines perverse rape scenarios with historical or traditional cultural settings.

The Female Mantis

Toba Eiko

An illustrated discussion of Edo-period rakugo and erotic scatological narratives, presenting comic performance scenes, dialogue, and commentary on excrement- and urine-related humor in traditional popular entertainment. The piece situates these tales within the history…

The Male-Colored Apartment

A psychological discussion of exhibitionism, focusing mainly on male public exposure and comparing it with female exhibitionistic behavior. It examines motives, social settings, clothing and bodily display, involuntary versus deliberate acts, and the relationship…

Can Homosexuality Be Cured?

Kayabiya Kazuhiko

A sexological essay asks whether male homosexuality can be medically or psychologically “cured,” reviewing psychoanalytic, behavioral, and other therapeutic approaches. It contrasts homosexuality with heterosexuality, discusses gender identity and sexual development, and questions the…

Spiders and Butterflies

Numata Fujise

A serialized SM story about actress Rie, whose promised film opportunity leads to coercion, escape, recapture, and increasingly severe punishment by a director and his associates. The narrative depicts elaborate rope restraint, suspension, gagging,…

Tales of Perverse Curiosities

A survey of unusual Japanese erotic “curiosities,” drawing on late-Edo and modern texts to discuss masturbation, voyeurism, domestic sexual fantasy, and fetishized bodily imagery. The article combines commentary on historical erotic publications with excerpts…

A Rakugo Tale of Excrement and Urine

Masaoka Iruru

A rakugo-style erotic narrative recounting obscene and scatological episodes involving married couples, village doctors, sexual curiosity, and excrement and urine. The story blends comic anecdote with fetishistic fantasy and transgressive domestic sexuality.

Perversion in Modern Literature

Murata Seiichi

A literary-critical essay examining how sexual “torment” and perverse desire appear in modern Japanese fiction. It discusses works and characters associated with coercion, humiliation, nudity, physical control, and unequal sexual power, with particular attention…

The Woman’s Punishment Ground

Kunikata Mariko

An illustrated historical essay examines Meiji-era artist Kunichō’s depictions of women subjected to binding, punishment, humiliation, and domestic confinement. It discusses the circulation, interpretation, and visual conventions of erotic punishment imagery in Japanese print…

Dream Demon, Continued

Matsui Kōko

A continuation of an epistolary erotic narrative in which Yoshiko and other women exchange intimate letters describing secret female same-sex encounters, romantic longing, and sensual experimentation. The illustrated serial emphasizes lesbian desire, secrecy, and…

Love Slave, Part Twelve

Kitō Kōichirō

The concluding installment of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized SM novel follows Harumi as she manipulates several men through money, jealousy, erotic display, and demands for obedience. Hospital visits, foot- and shoe-centered humiliation, kneeling submission, and…

Beautiful Agony

A digest of Eastern and Western masochist literature surveys fantasies of submission, humiliation, pain, and ecstatic surrender, drawing on literary and artistic examples from antiquity through modern Japanese and European culture. The accompanying images…

The Closed Female Body

Toba Eiko

A serialized erotic narrative follows Chikako as she seductively maneuvers Ōgaki from a nightlife setting to her home, where he encounters her refined but physically weakened husband. The “female mantis” motif frames Chikako as…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice

translated by Samukawa Midori

A translated serialized SM story in which Alice is physically overpowered, restrained, stripped, and subjected to escalating discipline and sexual domination. Across chapters seven through ten, her resistance gives way to coerced submission, while…

Fantasy and Expectation of Humiliation

Furukawa Yūko

A first-person confession by Furukawa Yūko explores a woman’s fantasies and expectations of humiliation through imagined and recounted scenes of captivity, restraint, gagging, blindfolding, and sexual submission. The narrative moves between domestic life, travel,…

A Woman’s Path

Kameoka Ryokushichirō, credit uncertain

A historical erotic samurai tale centered on O-Chika, whose relationships with rival warriors become entangled with coercion, revenge, sexual domination, and betrayal. The narrative culminates in an intensely violent confrontation involving restraint, bodily exposure,…

Memoirs of a Female Slave

Kitayama Kaoru

A first-person memoir recounts a woman’s transformation into a household slave through confinement, forced service, sexual coercion, and repeated physical punishment. The narrative emphasizes the routines and psychology of domestic enslavement, including binding, surveillance,…

Records from Manchuria and Mongolia

credit unclear

A memoir by a Japanese returnee describes life and labor in Manchuria and Mongolia, including travel, harsh working conditions, encounters with Japanese expatriates, and erotic relationships shaped by the colonial wartime environment. The account…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A serialized case narrative presented as material from a masochist’s notebook, recounting Karo’s relationship with his wife and their increasingly elaborate dog-training and disciplinary role-play. Framed through letters and psychological commentary, it explores male…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A page of publishing notices and advertisements promoting new and forthcoming erotic books, illustrated collections, fetish-oriented materials, subscriptions, and a special Sadism-literature supplement. It also solicits original manuscripts and contributions, presenting the magazine’s commercial…

Splendid Pictures of Cruelty

A photographic feature presenting staged scenes of women restrained, bound, and subjected to corporal punishment in domestic and theatrical settings. The accompanying presentation treats cruelty and physical vulnerability as fetishized visual spectacle.

Methods of Applying Crotch Rope

Takiko

An illustrated instructional feature demonstrating several methods of applying rope around the crotch and body. The diagrams show different tying patterns, including bindings that restrict the limbs and posture, with some figures blindfolded or…

Daimyo Procession

Itō Seiu

An illustrated historical-cultural feature on a daimyo procession or street display, presenting elaborately dressed participants and attendants in an Edo-period urban setting. Explanatory text discusses related seasonal customs, public spectacles, and decorative practices.

From Life Photographs

A photographic feature presenting women bound in elaborate rope arrangements, including upright and suspended poses against posts or other supports. The images emphasize staged kinbaku technique and restrained body positioning.

Grand Collection of Perverse Buttock Beating

A photo-and-illustration feature framed as an account of American female sadism, with scenes involving teachers, students, discipline, buttock beating, and elaborate restraint. Its images and captions emphasize humiliation, exhibition, and the sexualization of institutional…

Recent European and American Women

composition by Sugiura Kōji

A visual feature composed by Sugiura Kōji showcasing contemporary European and American women in staged bondage and fetish scenes, including restrained, gagged, and inverted poses. The presentation frames imported Western imagery as a recent…

The Master of the House and the Geisha

An erotic illustrated scene introduces a runaway girl who has been deceived by a pimp and brought to a geisha house, where the proprietor first examines her. The imagery presents her coercive sexualization and…

Twisting

A bondage illustration depicts a woman tied with rope and suspended from the ceiling, with her clothing removed or displaced as part of the scene. The feature emphasizes elaborate rope restraint and suspended positioning.

Suspension Arrangement

An erotic illustration presents a woman suspended and bound in a complex rope arrangement, accompanied by text describing the training of performers in various arts to increase their commercial value. The feature combines staged…

Water Torture

This illustrated feature, titled “Water Torture,” depicts women subjected to elaborate rope restraint and posed exposure, including a seated figure and a bound reclining figure. The imagery frames bondage as a staged spectacle involving…

The Process of Submission

composition and photography by Tsujimura Takashi

A photographic sequence titled “The Process of Submission” depicts women being progressively positioned and restrained with rope in staged bondage scenes. The images emphasize kneeling, tied-limb, and controlled postures as visual representations of submission.

Tears of Submission

Nakagawa Ayako

Nakagawa Ayako’s illustrated and photographic feature depicts women bound, gagged, immobilized, and displayed in scenes of forced submission, distress, and punishment. The recurring motif is the “tears” and facial expression of a restrained subject…

A Secret Album of Pleasure

“A Secret Album of Pleasure” is a photographic feature presenting a series of rope-bound women in varied seated, kneeling, and floor-based positions. Its visual emphasis is on eroticized restraint, bodily display, and staged scenes…

A Cruel Scene from a Divorce

Takiko

A single erotic illustration presents a woman restrained in an extreme raised-leg or inverted posture, with rope extending overhead. The scene is framed as a cruel episode connected with divorce.

Images of a White Toy

Yagiwa Hideo

An illustrated erotic feature depicting a woman in elaborate rope bondage and staged restraint scenarios, accompanied by Japanese commentary on the scenes and their performers. The sequence emphasizes theatrical posing, physical display, and sadomasochistic…

Punishment in the Rear Room of a Brothel

Minamikawa Kazuko

A multi-panel erotic illustration sequence depicts women tied to wooden structures in a rear-room setting and subjected to cane or rod punishment. The imagery emphasizes immobilization, exposure, and ritualized corporal discipline.

The Teacher on the Platform

composition and photography by Tsujimura Takashi

A staged photographic feature presents a woman restrained with rope in several positions while another woman acts as instructor or disciplinarian. The images emphasize practical rope binding, immobilization, and the theatrical presentation of a…

Women Who Were Cruelly Treated

commentary by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō comments on illustrations and other visual depictions of women subjected to cruel treatment, drawing on slavery narratives, punishment scenes, and related nineteenth-century European imagery. The article compares recurring images of whipping, domination,…

Snake

Kitahara Tamaki

A single erotic illustration by Kitahara Tamaki showing a nude woman accompanied or confronted by snakes and a partially visible male figure. The composition uses the snake as a motif of danger, sensuality, and…

Cruel Treatment: Do Not Behave Like a Dog!

A staged photographic scene depicts a dominant woman forcing a submissive man into a dog-like posture, accompanied by dialogue ordering him to behave like a dog. The feature emphasizes degradation, command, and physical control.

The Spider’s Captive

Takiko

A visual feature titled “The Spider’s Captive” presents bound bodies in a photographic image and an accompanying illustration, portraying immobilization through elaborate restraint and a spider-like captivity motif.

The Transformation of the Female Abdomen

A staged photographic feature depicting a woman enacting a simulated female seppuku ritual, using a blade and posed abdominal gestures. The accompanying text presents the scene as an eroticized visual imitation rather than an…

Lustful Rain, Unextinguished

Matsui Kōko

An ongoing erotic novel centered on Chikako and her encounters in an artist’s studio, where modeling, voyeurism, coercion, and progressively severe restraint become intertwined. The installment develops a tense artist–model relationship and ends as…

The Monkey Gag and Me: A Night with Yūko

Furukawa Yūko

Yūko Furukawa’s autobiographical essay recounts her fascination with monkey gags and other forms of mouth and sensory restraint, tracing the interest from childhood memories through adult experiences with her husband. She discusses the physical…

Writhing in Pleasurable Torment

Kawabata Tanako

An erotic first-person narrative follows Yuko as she is subjected to escalating rope restraint, gagging, forced positioning, and corporal punishment by a male partner. The account emphasizes her physical suffering, humiliation, and ambivalent pleasure…

The Chastity of the Invisible Woman

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu discusses the erotic power of punishment scenes in Japanese theatrical and historical settings, focusing on women being bound, beaten, and displayed before spectators. The article combines commentary on stage conventions and audience…

White Altar

Yorioka Mafuyu

An erotic fictional narrative set around a male teacher’s encounters with A-ko, a seventeen-year-old student. Across several chapters, classroom and private-room settings become stages for voyeuristic observation, sexual initiation, and an unequal teacher–student relationship,…

The Beautiful Demon’s Sneer

Maki Fujio

A serialized SM fiction narrative in which the beautiful and domineering Yukiko subjects Tatsuji to escalating humiliation, bondage, and physical punishment. Set against a postwar urban backdrop and framed through memories of wartime hardship,…

Stalking Diary

Sagara Saburō; illustrations by Hamada Minoru

A diary-style erotic story follows a man’s obsessive pursuit and surveillance of women, recording his movements, observations, and increasingly intimate encounters in urban and private settings. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the work’s themes of…

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

An erotic narrative about a married couple whose sexual relationship becomes increasingly shaped by cruelty, voyeurism, bodily fetishism, and the husband’s interest in manipulating a younger man. The story develops through domestic encounters, coercive…

The Voyeur’s Room

Hinatsu Yukio; illustrations by Mizusawa Fukayuki

A serialized erotic narrative set in a private “voyeur’s room” depicts men observing, exposing, and sexually exploiting women through a series of encounters organized into numbered sections. Its illustrations emphasize nude bodies, forced intimacy,…

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated historical survey of cruel women rulers and aristocratic women, drawing on a 1901 German work to recount abuses of power, executions, torture, corporal punishment, and other acts of extreme violence.…

My Life Experience: Longing for Abdominal Incision

Kojima Teruhiko

Kojima Teruhiko’s autobiographical confession traces his lifelong fascination with abdominal incision and seppuku, linking childhood memories, samurai stories, erotic imagery, and fantasies of blood, pain, and bodily violation. The article also describes imagined and…

Tale of Strange Homosexuality

Takahashi Tetsu; illustrations by Hamada Minoru

A sexological and anecdotal account of unusual male same-sex desire and gendered sexual behavior. The discussion combines case-style observations with fictionalized or illustrative scenes involving erotic experimentation, cross-gender presentation, and social attitudes toward homosexuality.

The Violated Woman

Kondō Kikuya

A fictional erotic narrative follows actress Mieko and members of a traveling theatrical troupe through coercive sexual encounters, captivity, and escalating abuse. Illustrated scenes emphasize forced undressing, restraint, humiliation, and staged performance within the…

The Man Possessed by an Enema Syringe

Kurisu Teruo

A first-person erotic confession about a man whose sexual fixation centers on an enema syringe and related medical procedures. The narrative presents fetishistic desire, repeated encounters with medical settings, and the tension between compulsive…

The Man I Sought: Infatuation

Matsui Raikō

A first-person, purportedly factual erotic narrative about Miki, his wife Mie, and the narrator, whose relationships develop through marital jealousy, secrecy, sexual experimentation, and an unusual three-person erotic dynamic. Organized into autobiographical sections on…

The Rout at Aizuwakamatsu Castle

Iwahori Hikaru; illustrations by Nozaki Kōsaku

A historical adventure narrative depicting the retreat and defeat of Aizu forces during the late-Edo civil wars, including the siege of Aizuwakamatsu Castle. It emphasizes battlefield confusion, samurai loyalty, wartime hardship, and the experiences…

Desire for Rape

Mizusawa Fukayuki

An erotic confessional narrative centered on a man’s fixation with rape fantasies and his encounters with women who become involved in coercive sexual situations. The piece presents sexual violence through the subjective language of…

A Widow Weeps Under Private Punishment

Kosaka Tamie

A sensationalized prison memoir describes widowed and other female inmates subjected to informal punishment by fellow prisoners, including restraint, forced exposure, beatings, and humiliating staged ordeals. The narrative combines criminal case histories with lurid…

The Awakened Masochist

Kitō Kōichirō

An erotic narrative about a woman’s gradual discovery and acceptance of masochistic desire through sexually dominant encounters, including restraint, spanking, and other forms of bodily control. It emphasizes sexual awakening and the changing power…

On Combination Lingerie

Matsuba Teruhiko

An essay on the one-piece combination undergarment discusses its construction, everyday use, foreign variants, advertising, and changing cultural meanings. It also considers how the garment’s openings and fit became associated with embarrassment, erotic attention,…

Grass Quince: Benibana Sōshi

Kawai Itsuko

A fictional erotic narrative centered on Ito-ko, a woman subjected to violent coercion, sexual assault, and rope restraint. The story emphasizes her resistance, captivity, humiliation, and the perpetrator’s sadistic control.

Various Hanging Torments

Itō Seiu

An illustrated discussion of varied hanging punishments and suspension-based torments, combining historical commentary with descriptions and depictions of eroticized bodily restraint. The feature treats hanging, bondage, and staged physical suffering as visual and sexual…

The Man in the Mountain Castle, Part Eleven

Matsui Raikō

A serialized, autobiographical-style erotic narrative in which a woman reflects on her developing sexual curiosity and her pursuit of men, while recounting scenes of tying, forced positioning, humiliation, and punishment. The work presents female…

Reiko’s Twelve Months: Pine

Kita Reiko

An erotic seasonal vignette from the “Reiko’s Twelve Months” series, centered on the pine/New Year motif. The accompanying illustrations and narrative depict a sexual encounter moving between an interior setting and a pine-filled outdoor…

The Maimed Fairy

Kayama Shigeru; illustrations by Hamada Minoru

An erotic supernatural story about Takashi and Michiko, whose doctor-patient relationship becomes entangled with hidden identity, psychological desire, and a strange fairy- or monster-like transformation. Dreamlike illustrations reinforce the story’s motifs of bodily otherness,…

Eight Years Wandering in Manchuria

Okinoya Emiko

Okinoya Emiko presents a first-person account of Japanese women’s experiences in Manchuria after Japan’s defeat, describing flight, capture, sexual violence, forced undressing, beatings, humiliation, deprivation, and attempts to survive and escape. The testimony also…

Spiders and Butterflies: The Unfortunate New Face

Tobita Kinryōji

A serialized SM fiction follows Rié, an aspiring “new face” drawn into a studio environment where Setta and Takio subject her to escalating coercion, humiliation, and physical torment. The episodes depict rope restraint, forced…

Tormenting a Virgin

Kitō Kōichirō

A sadistic erotic story explicitly framed as a “sadism story,” depicting a man’s coercive encounters with women and the sexualized torment of a virgin. Across its episodes, the narrative emphasizes domination, restraint, humiliation, and…

Madame

A first-person “Madame” narrative recounts a woman’s development and exercise of authority over men, including riding a male servant as a horse, imposing service, grooming, whipping, and other disciplinary routines. The extended account presents…

Toilet Mania

Shimada Seiichi

A humorous first-person essay about the author’s fascination with toilets, recounting observations and experiences in factory and public lavatories. The piece combines scatological comedy with gendered restroom settings and sexually voyeuristic situations.

Publication Information

An editorial communication to contributors acknowledges readers’ opinions and manuscript or image submissions, explains that material may be considered for future issues, and provides practical guidance for sending contributions and correspondence to the magazine.

Male-Colored Café, Continued

Kayabiya Kazuhiko

A continuation of a guide to male-oriented cafés and meeting places, describing venues, clientele, access routes, local atmospheres, and coded forms of recognition. Maps and hand-sign illustrations document the geography and social practices of…

Sickening Humiliation

Tada Akihito

An erotic illustrated narrative centered on coercive sexual domination, bondage, physical restraint, and humiliating treatment. Its prose and images emphasize sadomasochistic power relations and the victim’s ordeal.