Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko; illustrations by Mizusawa Fukayuki

An erotic first-person correspondence feature exploring women’s same-sex desire, intimate relationships, jealousy, and sexual experimentation. The prose is accompanied by highly sensual illustrations of nude and embracing women, presenting a stylized “Lesbos” salon of…

Beautiful Dog

Nakagawa Ayako

A color erotic illustration depicts a woman posed as a restrained “beautiful dog,” with ropes, collaring, and animal-like positioning central to the composition. The image combines fantasy, submission, and stylized bondage imagery.

Bound Princess

A photographic feature presents a costumed “bound princess” in a series of staged rope-restraint scenes, including seated, kneeling, and standing poses in a traditional Japanese interior. Captions emphasize helplessness, humiliation, and the aesthetic display…

Methods of Binding with Rubber Cord

Takiko

An illustrated instructional feature demonstrating multiple ways to bind a woman with elastic rubber cord. The diagrams show cord placement around the torso and limbs, including seated, kneeling, and other restrained positions.

A Scene from a Mask Play

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu presents an erotic illustrated tableau styled as a Japanese masked or theatrical performance. The scene combines a kimono-clad woman, a masked performer, staged sexualized display, and onlookers in a traditional architectural setting.

Pleasurable Torment

Kita Reiko

An erotic illustration feature depicting people subjected to elaborate rope and positional restraints, emphasizing bodily control, forced postures, and the visual drama of bondage. The sequence presents restraint as a source of torment and…

Training Beautiful Horses

An illustrated erotic feature presents women styled as horses being “trained,” using bridles, harnesses, reins, and staged garden scenes to frame discipline and performance. The imagery treats horse training as a metaphor for erotic…

American-Style Restraint

composition by Sugiura Kōji

A multi-panel illustrated feature depicts “American-style” punishment through elaborate restraints and apparatus, including tied poses, suspension, spread-eagle positioning, and threat-based theatrical setups. The scenes emphasize stylized bondage equipment and punitive erotic fantasy.

The Beautiful Prey

Oda Akio

An illustrated erotic captivity narrative about a beautiful young woman treated as prey, captured and bound while enduring escalating torment, including suspension and other forms of physical coercion. The accompanying prose intensifies the themes…

Photographic Studies of Western-Style Restraint

A photographic feature documenting Western-style restraint, showing bound subjects in leather garments, chains, and varied floor-based and kneeling positions. The images emphasize the visual presentation of immobilization and imposed posture.

Demons of the Basement

Nakagawa Ayako

A visual feature presenting Nakagawa Ayako’s illustrated “Demons of the Basement,” depicting nude figures in staged scenes of rope restraint, coercive domination, and forced drinking. The accompanying text emphasizes the grotesque atmosphere and the…

Bound Poses in a Smoke-Filled Room

Minamikawa Kazuko

An illustrated feature by Minamikawa Kazuko depicting several “tobacco punishment” poses, in which nude or partially clothed women are tied in restrictive positions while cigarettes are used as part of the scene. The sequence…

Until the Monkey Gag

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A staged photographic sequence follows the capture of a woman attempting to escape, her arms being tied behind her and a monkey gag applied. The images emphasize the progression from struggle to enforced restraint.

Bind Me Skillfully!

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A photographic feature demonstrates a woman being skillfully bound with her hands behind her back, using posed scenes between two female models. The presentation focuses on rope placement and restrained posture.

The Rainbow of the Insect Demon

Ryūtanji Yū

An illustrated grotesque fantasy centered on an eccentric sculptor and his mysterious gallery of human figures. The narrative blends eroticized sculpture, bodily transformation, uncanny dolls, nocturnal encounters, and macabre supernatural imagery.

The Woman with a Whip

A photographic feature presenting women in stylized fetish costumes, one seated with a whip and another wielding a slender crop. The staged images emphasize female authority, theatrical display, and eroticized discipline.

Bonds

composition by Sugiura Kōji

A photographic composition by Sugiura Kōji featuring a model restrained against a post in a crucifixion-like position, with bindings across the upper body and legs. The image presents bondage as a carefully arranged, theatrical…

Hell of the Lustful Cult Leader

An illustrated fantasy depicts a lustful cult leader presiding over a hellish underground sanctuary where female believers are stripped, bound, suspended, and subjected to ritualized sexual punishment. The imagery combines religious symbolism with scenes…

House of Pleasurable Torment

Mine Shigeyo, credit reading uncertain

This serialized illustrated SM narrative follows Yuri and Sumi as they are confined in a house of punishment and repeatedly subjected to rope bondage, forced positions, humiliation, beatings, and other coercive domestic ordeals. The…

Buttocks Holy Night

Muchioka Mafuyu

A serialized SM fantasy in which a teacher subjects A-ko to elaborate bondage, exposure, and corporal punishment, with sustained attention to her buttocks and bodily reactions. The illustrated narrative escalates through rope restraint, positional…

Pleasure in the Ginza Backstreets

Takaga Reiko

An erotic narrative set in Tokyo’s Ginza backstreets follows encounters between an artist and his companions that develop into coercive sexual games, rope restraint, humiliation, and violent domination. The illustrated story moves between seduction,…

The Rain of Lust Does Not Cease, Part Two

Matsui Raiko; illustrations by Hamada Minoru

This serialized SM fiction continues a psychologically charged story of desire, jealousy, and coercion, in which characters arrange and endure elaborate scenes of bondage, punishment, and bodily control. The narrative incorporates rope restraint, sensory…

Human Candlestick

Numata Fujise

An erotic fantasy centered on a young woman named Eiko depicts a group setting involving forced nudity, restraint, sensory and bodily humiliation, and candle-associated ritual imagery. The accompanying illustration and narrative emphasize the spectacle…

Spiders and Butterflies, Part Five

Tobita Kinryōji

The fifth installment of Tobita Kinryōji’s serialized erotic narrative follows actress 御川里枝子 as a film production and its controlling staff draw her into escalating coercion, humiliation, and sexual exploitation. The installment interweaves backstage cinematic…

Punishment-Picture Wanderings

Nagaoka Hen’ichirō

Nagaoka Hen’ichirō reflects on his lifelong fascination with “punishment pictures,” tracing encounters with erotic illustrations, novels, magazines, films, and theatrical imagery from his youth through the postwar period. The essay combines personal memoir with…

Scattered Red Leaves: A Woman’s Seppuku

Kameoka Ryokushichirō

A historical erotic narrative set in a samurai household, this story follows marital suspicion, jealousy, and questions of honor as a woman’s fate culminates in ritual self-disembowelment. The narrative emphasizes the atmosphere of secrecy,…

Hunting Adulteresses

Tōma Eirō

A first-person erotic narrative in which the narrator pursues married and adulterous women, beginning with an encounter involving his pregnant sister-in-law and continuing through seduction, voyeuristic observation, and clandestine sexual meetings. The illustrated story…

Yūko and Punishment

Furukawa Yūko

A first-person account by Yūko Furukawa exploring a masochistic woman’s psychology and her experiences of “punishment” within marriage. The article discusses humiliation, restraint, gagging, blindfolding, suspension, and the use of ropes, cuffs, belts, and…

The She-Leopard of the Amazon

Oniyama Kenraku

A completed SM fiction following Ted, an American-connected man drawn into a coercive relationship with the sadistic Renko, who dominates, humiliates, restrains, and physically disciplines him. The narrative develops a fantasy of female control…

Seme in Modern Literature

Murata Seiichi

Murata Seiichi examines depictions of punishment, cruelty, and eroticized suffering in modern Japanese literature, relating literary scenes to the sensibility of ukiyo-e and artists such as Utamaro. The article discusses sadistic and masochistic dynamics,…

Prostitute Demon

Takatsuki Daizō

An illustrated erotic crime fantasy in which a woman encounters a sinister, fetishistic man and is abducted, bound, gagged, and subjected to escalating coercive control. The narrative combines threatening captivity and sadistic menace with…

Exemplary Prisoner

Sakurai Eiichi

A fictional prison narrative depicting inmates, warders, and an atmosphere of coercion, secrecy, and sexualized power. The story develops through confinement, forced service, interrogation, tying, beating, and other forms of punitive humiliation among prisoners…

Breast Mania

Shimokawa Jōichi

Shimokawa Jōichi presents an extended essay on men’s fascination with women’s breasts, combining personal observations with informal sexual-psychological classifications of breast size, shape, color, nipples, and lactation. The article is accompanied by erotic illustrations…

Human or Horse?

Jules Supervielle; abridged translation and commentary by Numa Shōzō

An abridged Japanese translation and commentary on Jules Supervielle’s surreal story of a man who becomes or is identified with a horse, and an American woman whose romantic and erotic attachment develops around this…

Homosexual Love Fetishism

Takahashi Tetsu

Takahashi Tetsu discusses male same-sex desire through collected anecdotes, letters, and eroticized observations of foreign men’s body hair and genital proportions. The piece frames homosexual fetishism as a field of intense personal fantasy and…

Distorted Adolescence: A Sexual Confession

Akada Hiroshi

A first-person sexual confession recounts the narrator’s developing adolescent fixation on women’s bodies, clothing, and private moments, followed by increasingly deliberate voyeuristic and fetishistic encounters. The narrative presents these experiences as a psychologically troubled…

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

An illustrated erotic fiction featuring a sinister room where characters are concealed, bound, and subjected to coercive sexual encounters. The narrative develops through secrecy, captivity, restraint, threats, and shifting control between the male narrator…

Belly Torment: A Punishment Experience

Takeuchi Keijirō

A first-person account describes a woman subjected to an extended abdominal punishment session involving restraint, heat, pressure, paddling, and other forms of sadistic torment. The accompanying illustrations and detailed procedural narration emphasize the mechanics…

Sentimental Education, Part Four

translated by Kurihara Tsumenobu, romanization uncertain

The fourth installment of a serialized erotic fiction follows Shōzaburō and Yuki through a marital conflict that becomes an elaborate program of bondage and punishment. The narrative emphasizes rope restraint, gagging, humiliating postures, and…

Reiko’s Twelve Months: Plum

Kita Reiko

The “Plum” installment of Reiko’s twelve-month series presents a coercive erotic narrative in which a woman is abducted, stripped, restrained, gagged, and subjected to forced bodily examination and humiliation by a male antagonist. Illustrations…

Soak the Shoes!

Shikibu Kōji

A first-person confession traces the narrator’s long-standing erotic obsession with women’s shoes, especially high heels, including their appearance, scent, texture, and the acts of wearing, handling, licking, and possessing them. The accompanying illustrations stage…

Seppuku Research Night Talk, Part One

Nakayasu Hiromichi

An essay examining female seppuku as a historical, psychological, and erotic motif. It surveys reported cases, literary and theatrical depictions, illustrations, and contemporary staged representations, considering themes of suffering, self-destruction, spectatorship, and the aesthetic…

Mirror Demon Tale, Part One: The Mirror Woman

Shimamoto Haruo; illustrations by Nakajima Haruo

The first installment of a supernatural erotic tale follows the mirror demon and the men and women drawn into her uncanny, violent domain. Illustrated scenes depict seduction, transformation, restraint, humiliation, and occult confrontation within…

Infatuation: The Devil’s Footprints

Oniyama Ryūshichirō, credit reading uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative in which a narrator plots revenge by psychologically transforming an apparently ordinary wife and another man into sadistic and masochistic participants. The successive episodes depict marital jealousy, erotic manipulation, bondage…

Sodomite Correspondence

Fujii Akira

A correspondence and advice feature responding to male same-sex desire, gender expression, sexual behavior, and anxieties about relationships, marriage, and social acceptance. The editor frames readers’ personal experiences through psychological and sexological commentary.

The Grotesque in Crimes of Passion

Mitani Shōsuke

An illustrated crime-reportage series recounting bizarre crimes of passion, including murders, concealed or abandoned bodies, water-related deaths, and police investigations. Its sensational narratives emphasize grotesque bodily imagery, sexual motives, deception, and the macabre discovery…

Human Sacrifice

Okinoya Emiko

A first-person erotic captivity narrative in which a woman is seized by two men, bound and gagged, and subjected to escalating physical abuse and sexualized coercion. The episode emphasizes her fear, pain, helplessness, and…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

“Lesbos Correspondence” presents an advice-and-testimonial column about women’s same-sex relationships, featuring exchanges among women discussing desire, sexual intimacy, secrecy, marriage, and encounters with men. The illustrated correspondence combines personal disclosures with eroticized scenes and…

The Man I Sought, Part Two

Matsui Raikō

Part two of Matsui Raikō’s autobiographical erotic novel follows the narrator’s developing fascination with tying, controlling, and humiliating boys, alongside episodes of punishment and reversal in which she is restrained and disciplined herself. The…

Tormenting a Virgin, Continued

Kitō Kōichirō

This serialized fiction continuation depicts a man abducting and confining a young woman, then subjecting her to escalating restraint, interrogation, humiliation, and corporal punishment. The narrative later expands to involve her sister and further…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

Numa Shōzō’s essay examines masochistic psychology through literary examples, contrasting a man’s masochism with his wife’s attraction to cats and discussing fetishistic associations with animals, hair, and fur. It also reflects on the interpretation…

A Strange Tale of Bath Torture

Hadō Eirō; illustrations by Yoshinami Eijirō

An erotic fiction narrative centered on a woman subjected to coercive bathhouse punishment, including restraint, heat, washing, and humiliating commands. The accompanying illustrations emphasize the staged ritual of domination and bodily vulnerability.

Nonfiction: Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu presents an illustrated historical account of Edo-period sexual customs, centered on festivals, entertainers, domestic servants, and encounters in urban households. The accompanying drawings depict theatrical and eroticized scenes, including female restraint and…

Dirty Panties

Kitatsuji Ichirō; illustrations by Takikawa Hajime

An erotic fetish narrative about a man’s intense fascination with women’s worn and soiled panties, developed through observation, handling, laundering, and controlling encounters. The story combines clothing fetishism with voyeuristic spectatorship and humiliation.

A Study of Exceptional Men: The Head Clerk of Shimaya

Murata Seiichi

A historical study of the Edo-period figure known as the “Shimaya head clerk,” examining the phrase’s origins, circulated anecdotes, and associations with male beauty and same-sex desire. The article draws on literary and popular…

Strange Passions

R. Deveira; translated by Miyake Ichirō

A translated erotic fiction serial depicting “strange passions” through encounters involving seduction, coercion, captivity, restraint, humiliation, and violent sexual domination. The narrative shifts among urban and outdoor settings and emphasizes the protagonists’ psychological and…

Revenge

Okada Sakiko

A serialized erotic revenge narrative in which Tamiko is abducted, bound, gagged, and subjected to humiliating punishment by several captors. The story gradually reveals a family history involving wartime violence, parental secrets, and long-delayed…

The Defiled White Swan

Hinatsu Yukio; illustrations by Mizusawa Miyuki

An illustrated erotic-SM fiction follows Yumiko and Sachiko as they are drawn into an instructor’s coercive training exercises at a specialized facility. The narrative emphasizes confinement, staged punishment, bodily display, and escalating psychological submission,…

Cruel Women

translated by Morimoto Aizō

A translated historical and cultural survey of the “cruel woman,” discussing female cruelty, slave ownership, domination, and violence across classical, colonial, and modern settings. It draws on historical writings, literature, film, and visual representations…

Female Self-Abuse Illustrations

Mitsutomi Kōsei

An illustrated erotic narrative centered on Etsuko, whose encounters involve self-inflicted pain, bodily vulnerability, and increasingly violent sexualized restraint. The accompanying illustrations emphasize female masochistic experience, coercive fantasy, and scenes of bodily exposure and…

Getting Free: On Pleasure

Kawabata Tanako

A first-person erotic narrative follows a woman who falls asleep while bound, drifts between dream and reality, and reflects on her growing masochistic desire. The story depicts rope restraint, attempted escape, helplessness, and the…

A Guilty Woman

Sakurai Kyōichirō

A serialized erotic novel about Natsuko, whose relationships with Shiga and others develop through seduction, jealousy, secrecy, and escalating scenes of coercion, tying, humiliation, and sexual domination. The narrative emphasizes the characters’ conflicted desires…

Publication Information

A next-issue announcement previews the March special issue, emphasizing reader-requested confession, erotic fiction, reportage, and other feature material. The page also includes a brief editorial postscript thanking readers and discussing the magazine’s continuing production…

Advertisements

Promotional material announces the magazine’s seventh-anniversary commemorative issue, solicits original submissions for publication and prizes, and provides subscription and ordering information. It also includes the publisher’s imprint and a subscription campaign aimed at sustaining…

Five Forms of Variant Binding

Takiko

An illustrated instructional feature presenting five variations of binding, shown through front, back, and side views of the restrained body. Arrows and diagrams clarify the positioning and movement involved in each rope arrangement.

A Genroku-Era Scene

Itō Seiu

A historical erotic scene attributed to Itō Seiu, depicting a woman restrained within an elaborate Japanese domestic or entertainment setting while other figures observe or participate. The accompanying text frames the tableau through historical…

She Ran Like the Wind

A staged erotic photograph depicts women in a theatrical outdoor setting, posed with rope and apparent restraint while a male figure participates in the scene. The caption presents the women as running wildly, emphasizing…

The Skillful Trainer

A theatrical erotic photograph presents two women in revealing costume and harnesses, posed as if under the direction of an experienced trainer or handler. The scene combines performance, display, and themes of erotic discipline…

Flagellation

A photographic feature titled “Flagellation” presents staged images of a woman in fetish attire using leather restraints and elevated or contorted poses associated with whipping and disciplinary scenarios.

Six Types of Gags

An illustrated instructional feature presents six types of gags, showing different cloth, strap, and metal mouth restraints and briefly explaining their construction and use.

The Tragedy of Defeat

Takiko

An illustrated feature titled “The Tragedy of Defeat” depicts Japanese women being captured, restrained, and abused in the Manchurian wilderness, framing wartime sexual violence through sensational erotic imagery.

Punishment Illustrations

Minamikawa Kazuko

A portfolio of punishment illustrations by Minamikawa Kazuko presents staged scenes of women tied or otherwise restrained while subjected to whipping and other forms of eroticized discipline.

Inverted and Two-Handed Suspension

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A photographic demonstration of inverted suspension and two-handed suspension, showing models restrained with rope and suspended from an overhead beam or support. The captions emphasize the rope arrangements and the suspended posture, including a…

Shrimp Binding

A photographic feature demonstrating shrimp binding, in which the model’s limbs are folded and secured toward the torso with rope, producing tightly compressed, contorted positions. The images present the binding as a kinbaku restraint…

Crotch Binding

composition by Sugiura Kōji

A photographic feature presenting rope-binding arrangements centered on crotch and waist binding, with models shown in kneeling and reclined positions. The images emphasize the placement and visual form of the bindings rather than providing…