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…

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…