Compact Floor Restraint

A photographic feature depicting a compact floor-based restraint in which the model is bound in tightly folded, seated and reclined positions. The staged images focus on bodily compression, crossed limbs, and the visual presentation…

A Bound-Woman Study

A two-page illustration feature depicting women subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, and immobilizing positions. The scenes include a woman bound on a floor and another restrained near an electrical cooker, emphasizing staged peril…

Her Majesty the Queen

Takiko

Takiko’s illustrated “Her Majesty the Queen” presents a dominant woman physically controlling a submissive man, who lies restrained at her feet while she holds a cord or whip. The composition centers female authority, male…

Cruel Women

commentary by Morimoto Aizō

An illustrated commentary on representations of cruel or dominant women, drawing on European paintings, illustrations, and scenes of female teachers disciplining male pupils. The feature emphasizes female authority, corporal punishment, humiliation, and the eroticized…

Stimulating Methods of Binding

Kazuhisa, artist credit reading uncertain

An illustrated practical feature presenting stimulating methods of binding, with women shown restrained in rope configurations involving gagging, blindfolding, positional restraint, and specialized bondage apparatus. The images emphasize the visual technique and erotic display…

The Unfathomable Punishment Chamber

An illustrated erotic punishment feature depicting women subjected to elaborate bondage and disciplinary scenarios, including rope restraint, immobilization, and observation by male figures. The imagery presents a stylized fantasy of a mysterious punishment chamber…

Two-Woman Half Suspension

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A photographic feature demonstrating two forms of partial suspension bondage involving two women, with rope arrangements securing the body in standing and floor-based positions. The images emphasize suspension technique, bodily positioning, and staged kinbaku…

A Woman Subjected to Interrogation

A historical illustration depicts an Edo-period woman subjected to a Suruga interrogation, a punishment in which she was suspended, struck, or rotated while bound. The accompanying caption identifies the scene as an example associated…

To Everyone Who Loved Me: Yūko’s Farewell Message

Furukawa Yūko

Furukawa Yūko addresses readers in an extended farewell, reflecting on the letters, expectations, and emotional bonds formed through her published writings. She discusses her personal masochistic imagination and experiences, including bondage, flogging, sensory restriction,…

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

A dark erotic fiction centered on Tomoko, the sculptor Saburō, and an unsettling private world where female bodies, rope restraint, nudity, and sadistic artistic display become objects of fascination. The accompanying illustrations depict bound…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A serialized essay from a masochist’s notebook examining masochism through the life and writings of Sacher-Masoch, including Venus in Furs, marital domination, and the psychology of submission. It combines personal-style reflections, erotic anecdotes, historical…

Seppuku Research Night Talk, Part Two

Nakayasu Hiromichi

The second installment of a research essay on female seppuku surveys historical accounts, literary depictions, and artistic representations of women disemboweling themselves. It compares sources ranging from historical chronicles and fiction to modern visual…

Spiders and Butterflies: Benibana Sōshi

Tobita Kinryōji

An illustrated serialized SM story follows schemes of seduction, deception, captivity, and violent punishment involving women and predatory male figures. Its dramatic scenes combine eroticized confinement and bodily threat with theatrical, sensational storytelling.

The Man I Sought, Part Three

Matsui Raikō

This serialized erotic fiction installment follows a woman caught in coercive captivity and escalating confrontation. The narrative features rope and tape restraint, sensory restriction, threats, escape attempts, and knife violence within a melodramatic bondage…

On the Beauty of the Transformed Female Body

Tomoe Torikun, romanization uncertain

A dramatic first-person narrative about the narrator’s obsessive relationship with Takeno Kiyoshi, whose vulnerable, transformed body becomes the focus of desire, restraint, fear, and emotional control. The story moves through domestic and childhood memories,…

In Praise of Perversion

Oniyama Kensaku, romanization uncertain

An erotic first-person narrative follows the narrator’s fascination with a beautiful woman named Junko, whose encounters develop into intense games of seduction, jealousy, domination, submission, and physical restraint. The story treats “perversion” as a…

The Mysterious Woman and Me

Okada Sakiko

An extended essay examines socially stigmatized sexual desires and the boundary between sexual “abnormality,” immorality, and criminal conduct. It argues for psychological and social understanding rather than reflexive condemnation, discussing masochism, sadism, humiliation, fetishistic…

Anatomical Tales: The Female Body Explained

Yoshida Ichitarō

An erotic narrative about a narrator’s encounters with a mysterious woman and her associate, unfolding through conversations, invitations, and increasingly elaborate scenes of female domination. The accompanying illustrations depict women being stripped, tied, gagged,…

Sentimental Education

Azuma Shin; credit reading uncertain

An autobiographical account by a long-serving anatomy-laboratory assistant describing the dissection of female cadavers, including procedures, instruments, bodily observations, and the practical routines of postmortem examination. The narrator also reflects on the unsettling erotic,…

Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu presents an erotic-psychological narrative centered on Tōzaburō, his wife Yukie, and an aggressive encounter with a woman on a train. The later sections explore shame, sadistic impulses, bodily sensation and odor, bathing,…

The Demonic Sisters

Naoki Fujio

A historical erotic narrative set in a Meiji-era licensed quarter, following Toyokichi and other characters through brothel entertainments, sexual intrigue, coercion, and violent punishment involving the titular sisters. The story is accompanied by dramatic…

The Female Guard and the Prisoner

Sakurai Eiichi

A serialized erotic captivity narrative in which the narrator becomes entangled with Mitsue and her sister, whose aggressive games of pursuit, restraint, humiliation, gagging, and bondage increasingly place him under their control. The story…

The Fall of Takato Castle: A Secret Record of Cruelty

Kawano Kyōsuke

A serialized historical erotic narrative recounting the fall of Takato Castle during the Takeda–Oda conflicts. The story depicts the capture, restraint, humiliation, torture, sexual abuse, and killing of women amid wartime violence, accompanied by…

Modern Masochism Art Criticism: Infatuation

Oniyama Tadamasa, romanization uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative follows Miki as he plots and observes intimate encounters involving his wife and other characters, while suspicion, jealousy, deception, and psychological fixation intensify. The episode uses staged voyeuristic situations, domestic…

The Stars Are Wet

Hara Tadamasa

A melodramatic erotic narrative about an intense relationship among two women and a man named Akashi, shaped by jealousy, illness, sexual coercion, and emotional dependency. The story culminates in scenes of captivity, bondage, and…

Crime in My Youth

Kawamoto Yukio

A first-person retrospective confession about the author’s sexual curiosity and transgressive experiences during boyhood, centered on his attraction to a foreign schoolmate named Mary. The account combines adolescent sexual psychology with recollections of coercive…

The Intestines

Kishino Shigeru, credit reading uncertain

A narrative centered on high-pressure enemas and invasive intestinal treatment, describing the physical sensations, medical apparatus, and escalating procedure in a fetishistic context. The article combines bodily distress, clinical imagery, and anal experimentation.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains excerpts from the 1901 German illustrated work Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and literary scenes of women exercising cruel authority over men and enslaved people. The discussion is accompanied…

Highland Exhibitionism

Kawada Nobuyuki, credit reading uncertain

A first-person confession recounts an exhibitionist’s escalating compulsion to expose his body, beginning with furtive incidents around school toilets and developing into staged encounters with women in public and secluded settings. The narrative focuses…

The Juvenile Prisoner

Miji Otoko, romanization uncertain

A first-person juvenile-prison memoir describes a boy’s descent into crime, arrest, remand detention, interrogation, confinement, corporal punishment, and eventual court proceedings. Its sensational account emphasizes institutional captivity, prison discipline, fear, humiliation, and the psychological…

The Baptism of Marriage

Kawauchi Shigeo, credit reading uncertain

An erotic wartime narrative recounts a Japanese soldier’s capture by Zhu Huilan, an educated Chinese guerrilla commander, and his subjection to her violent authority, restraint, and sexualized humiliation. The captive’s fear gradually becomes entangled…

Confession of a Homosexual Man

Koseki Shunji, credit reading uncertain

A first-person life history traces a man’s same-sex desire from childhood and school experiences through later relationships, sexual encounters, secrecy, and emotional attachment. The account presents homosexuality as an enduring personal and psychological history…

Modern Masochism Art Criticism

Hara Tadamasa

Hara Tadamasa’s extended criticism examines masochistic themes in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde alongside films, fiction, and other cultural works. It interprets erotic suffering, gendered power, sexual psychology, and stylized representations of bondage, cruelty, and…

Publication Information and Advertisements

A composite section of publication information, reader correspondence, editorial notices, subscription and submission guidance, promotional material, and advertisements. It documents the magazine’s participatory reader community and the commercial and publishing networks supporting specialist erotic…

The Improper Aristocratic Lady

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustrated erotic scenario follows an aristocratic woman from a lavish ballroom into a secret basement, where her captor threatens and torments her. The accompanying dialogue emphasizes captivity, pain, and sadistic domination.

The Virgin of the Rocky Shore

A photographic feature presents a woman in a green sweater and skirt seated amid fishing gear, nets, and a boat on a rocky shore. The staged outdoor setting combines nautical labor imagery with a…

Bound at the Wild Sea

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied and exposed on a rocky seashore, with crashing waves, cliffs, and open landscape intensifying the scene’s perilous and masochistic atmosphere. The accompanying prose presents the bound…

Circus Torment

Taki Reiko

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.

New Yoshiwara Public Exposure

Itō Seiu

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…

Auctioning the Beautiful Pony

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 property.

Flagellation

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.

White and Black

A black-and-white erotic photographic feature stages intimate and physically charged encounters between a white woman and a Black man. Its text foregrounds dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, interracial desire, bodily difference, and an…

Foreign Bondage Photographs

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.

Woman Sitting on a Man’s Waist

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

Takate Kote

Sugihara Kōji

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.

Burning Shanghai

A photographic erotic fantasy set against the imagery of wartime Shanghai, depicting a woman subjected to threatening interrogation and degrading treatment by a male captor. Captions emphasize coercion, humiliation, and the captor’s sadistic gaze.

Capture-Play Stage Photographs

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.

Three Punishment Pictures

Suzuki Tetsuo

A three-part illustrated feature portraying punitive and sadistic encounters in a historical Japanese-style setting, including whipping, cutting threats, restraint, and domination. The accompanying dialogue foregrounds severe corporal punishment and female-controlled violence.

Hit-and-Run Killing: Two Flowers Scattered on the Railway

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…

Infernal Punishment Pictures

A series of erotic illustrations imagines women subjected to grotesque punishments in an infernal setting, surrounded by demons and skeletons. The scenes draw on hell imagery, physical restraint, and theatrical depictions of suffering.

Human Flesh Market

Kita Reiko

An illustrated erotic narrative presents women restrained and displayed before groups of male spectators in a dark, theatrical setting. The scenes include bondage to poles, forced poses or dancing, and an explicitly depicted enema…

Pine-Needle Torment

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.

Bound to the Bed

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…

Is This All Right?

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…

A Woman with a Whip and a Man as Her Horse

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.

Bizarre Hypnotist

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…

Modern American Sadism Photograph Collection

A photographic portfolio presenting staged scenes of modern American sadism, including women subjected to suspension, gagging, restraint devices, and other bondage positions. The feature emphasizes the visual display of sadistic practices and specialized apparatus.

French Lesbian Photograph Collection

A multi-page photographic collection depicting French women in lesbian erotic encounters, including intimate embraces, seduction, undressing, and physically dominant or submissive poses. Accompanying captions frame the images as scenes of same-sex desire and romanticized…

How to Apply a Gag

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating how to apply a gag, showing the restrained subject and the placement and securing of the gag.

Pillar Binding

A photographic demonstration of pillar binding (hashira shibari), showing a seated subject secured with rope in a compact, restrained posture.

Beauty Exercises

Taki Reiko

An illustrated erotic feature presents painful contortions and one-foot toe suspension as supposed “beauty exercises,” framing female endurance and display through bondage imagery.

Inspired by Pears and Peaches: Whip Torment

Taki Reiko

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.

Cruel Women: Illustrated Portfolio

Moriki Aizō

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…

Eight Mechanically Assisted Punishments

Kojō Hideo

An illustrated feature presenting eight punishment scenarios using mechanical or structural devices, including rotating boards, stretching equipment, suspension arrangements, and other bondage apparatus. The captions frame these as staged erotic punishment tableaux.

Dragging Around

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.

Reflections on Rope: The Allure of Binding One’s Wife

Kuruki Sakae

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…

Ten'ichibō Goes to Hell

An illustrated historical erotic narrative in which Ten’ichibō and other characters are captured, restrained, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate punishments and humiliations. The story combines period adventure, captivity, rope bondage, and scenes of sexualized…

An Abused Boyhood

Mine Kōji

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 effects of…

In'u Kumasu

Matsui Raiko

This installment of a serialized SM novel follows a series of coercive encounters involving students, artists, and acquaintances who manipulate, restrain, gag, blindfold, and punish one another in domestic and bathhouse settings. The narrative…

Erotic-Letter Correspondence

Eri Mizue

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…

A Record of Wailing

Furukawa Yūko

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 monologues frame…

The Sweet World of the Masochist

Kurata Tetsurō

Kurata Tetsurō offers a reflective analysis of masochistic desire through several forms of erotic play, including bondage, direct physical pain, disciplinary scenes, and worship of an idealized woman. The accompanying illustrations depict male submission,…

Bondage and Punishment Miscellany

A multi-page roundtable brings together filmmaker Yoshino Jirō, writer Itō Seiu, photographer Yamashita Kyujiro, and writer Matsui Yoriko to discuss bondage, punishment, rope tying, women’s roles, erotic imagery, and their experiences in film and…

Gags: Notes on Overseas Sadism, Part One

Azuma Shin

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, punitive…

The Man I Sought, Part Four

Matsui Kanoko; illustrations by Taki Reiko

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…

Mirror Demon Tale

Shimamura Haruo

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…

Loincloth Mania

Mizutani Yukio

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…