Sexuality Advice Column

contributor and readers

An advice column answers readers’ questions about sexual desire, marriage, gendered behavior, bodily appearance, fetishistic interests, and anxieties about relationships through a sexological and psychological lens.

New Women’s Sumo Terminology

Katō Sanpei

An illustrated feature introduces and explains terminology for women’s sumo wrestling, using diagrams of grips, throws, holds, and winning or losing positions.

Publication Listings and Notices

A contents-and-notices section lists articles, illustrations, photographs, and other features from the issue, alongside subscription, ordering, and publication information for readers.

On Long-Boot Fetishism

Amaike Seibi, romanization uncertain

This illustrated essay examines the author’s fascination with women’s long boots, discussing the fetish’s psychological and historical associations, styles and materials, and its representation in imported fashion and erotic imagery.

Looking at the Beauty of Models

Nakamura Yasushi, credit reading uncertain

A first-person illustrated feature describes photographing female models in posed bondage and outdoor settings, focusing on their reactions, willingness to repeat the sessions, and the photographer’s interpretation of their masochistic interest.

Night-Light Island

Kurihara Mugi; illustrated by Shinjō

This serialized erotic suspense story follows Kenjiro and other characters whose fantasies of escape lead toward an isolated island, where loneliness, coercive power, captivity, and violent desire become intertwined. The narrative also reflects on…

The Fruits of Abuse

Hosokawa Nobuko

A dramatic first-person account portrays a woman subjected to escalating domestic abuse and elaborate restraint, including rope binding, suspension, gagging, whipping, forced nudity, and other forms of corporal punishment, with the resulting psychological collapse…

Illustrated Variations in Restraint

Takiko

An illustrated gallery presents numerous variations on restraint, including rope bondage, suspension, immobilizing devices, and restrictive positions, with Japanese labels identifying the techniques or apparatus.

Punishment in the Eleventh Lunar Month

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu illustrates an alleged post-wedding custom in a Nagano village in which young men publicly strip and humiliate newlyweds at the village shrine, prompting the couple to vow mutual fidelity; the accompanying note…

Punishing the Disobedient

Hanayama Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A continuation of the magazine’s “What Shall I Do?” feature depicts four elaborate punitive bondage scenes using frames, furniture, chains, poles, and suspended containers, while inviting readers to submit further ideas for unusual restraint…

Blindfolded Woman

A photograph from Bizarre depicts a blindfolded woman seated with her arms restrained behind her and a rope wrapped around her ankles, accompanied by commentary on the unusual tying arrangement and the visual effect…

Ankle Restraints

A photographic feature presents a woman whose wrists and arms are bound while chains linking her shoes restrict her stride, with the accompanying text emphasizing the contrast between Japanese-style restraint and the resulting masochistic…

Night Visitor

An illustrated erotic narrative, “Night Visitor,” portrays a mysterious nighttime scene in which a man discovers a woman bound to a tree in a forest and watches as an ominous male figure approaches, blurring…

Sad Clown and Evolutionary Fantasy

Shikata Takashi, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration presents a sad clown-like figure and a woman in a surreal theatrical world of whips, balloons, and fantastical forms, framing the male performer as a subordinate figure whose suffering supports the…

Until She Is Bound

composition and performance by Haruhi Rumi; model Itabuki Makiko

A staged photographic sequence follows a masked and gloved woman overpowering another model, forcing her into submission and progressively restraining her with bindings.

Attack

composition by Haruhi Rumi

This outdoor photographic sequence depicts a costumed woman attacking, dragging, tying, and disciplining a male captive among trees and tall grass, with captions organizing the episode as a progressive assault and restraint scenario.

A Campsite Story

Hanayama Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A sequential illustrated campsite narrative follows Riko and Masao as their hiking trip turns into a series of playful but coercive erotic reversals involving outdoor restraint, disrobing, feeding, and punishment.

The Page: Abdominal-Cutting Performance

This photographic feature presents staged scenes of a woman performing or being associated with abdominal-cutting imagery, framed by reader correspondence from a self-described female abdominal-cutting enthusiast and editorial notes about submitted photographs.

Trampling

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A composed erotic photograph depicts a woman in high heels pressing her foot onto a prone man, emphasizing female control and the spectacle of male submission.

Human Horse

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A staged erotic photograph depicts a man reduced to a “human horse,” carrying or serving a dominant woman and being made to run for her.

Are You Doing This?

Haruhi Rumi

A photographic feature presents a kneeling male slave in a posture described as easy to strike, framed by a woman’s command to assume the position.

Necktie

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A staged scene titled “Necktie” depicts a submissive man kneeling at a woman’s feet while she controls him through his necktie.

Improvised Post Restraint

Tobita Kinryō, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated domestic bondage scene shows a woman concealed and restrained inside a wardrobe as an unsettling “keepsake” left behind for her returning husband.

Chair Restraint

Kōji, from a contributor’s private album

An illustrated contributor-album scene depicts a woman secured in a wheeled chair or walker-like apparatus, emphasizing immobilization through an improvised restraint device.

Bathhouse Punishment

This two-part illustrated bathhouse sequence presents a newlywed subjected to playful marital punishment, first positioned over a bathtub and then drenched under a shower while wearing an elaborate kimono.

Acrobatic Dancer and Undressing

A photographic feature presents an acrobatic dancer in a split pose alongside staged images depicting a young woman being progressively undressed, with the sequence intended to continue in a later issue.

The Man Who Picks Up a Whip

A visual feature titled “The Man Who Picks Up a Whip” combines a photograph of a nude man bending to retrieve an object with an erotic historical painting of a woman dominating a fantastical…

Woman Wrapped in Chains

Takase Shinobu

Takase Shinobu’s photographic feature depicts a nude woman bound and enveloped in chains, emphasizing elaborate bodily restraint as its central image and motif.

Bedpost and Bed Restraint

Kawabata Tanako

A photographic feature presents a woman restrained with her arms raised against a bedpost, illustrating bed-based rope restraint and positioning.

Tightening: Two-Woman Rope Photography

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A staged two-woman photograph depicts an intimate rope-binding scene emphasizing tight wrapping and bodily restraint.

An Examination of Fallacies Appearing in Group Psychology

Naruse Ryō

This essay examines sadistic and masochistic patterns as forms of group psychology rather than merely individual pathology, relating abuse, coercion, authority, military and religious discipline, labor conflict, and postwar social and economic conditions to…

Diary of an Enema Maniac

Hanamura Emiko

A first-person account of an obsessive interest in enemas, tracing the author’s childhood experiences, experiments with enema equipment, bodily sensations, secrecy, and continuing desire for the practice.

Strange Tales of a Year-End Gathering

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic grotesque tale set around a company year-end gathering, in which female employees and a socially powerful employer become involved in staged performances, coercive sexualized punishment, bondage, humiliation, and sadistic spectacle.

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A masochist’s reflective notebook linking women’s horseback riding and changing gender roles to fantasies of female authority, then developing these ideas through dreams, slave-wife scenarios, submissive service, and related reader material.

Sexual Fluids, Part Ten

Itō Seiu

The tenth installment of Itō Seiu’s erotic serial follows coercive encounters involving staged spectacles, pursuit, captivity, and the use of ropes and other restraints, accompanied by sensational illustrations.

Love Together with Abuse

Futamata Shizuko

A long first-person erotic narrative recounts a woman’s formative and adult experiences of abuse, humiliation, domination, restraint, and conflicted desire, linking intimate violence with love and dependency.

Record of a Boy’s Springtime in a Mining Town

Mikihara Yoshio

A serialized narrative follows a boy’s adolescence in a coal-mining town, depicting schoolyard rivalries, group violence, coercive confrontations, and humiliating restraint amid difficult family and working-class circumstances.

Sadism in Senryū

Urushibara Bunsei

This illustrated cultural essay interprets senryū poems as evidence of sadistic erotic practices and fantasies, especially those associated with Edo-period courtesans, attendants, and sexualized punishment.

Schoolchild Sumo Training

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A memoir-like account describes compulsory school sumo training, including strenuous physical drills, forced bouts, bodily pain, public nudity, and disciplinary methods shaped by authoritarian school culture.

Longing for Seppuku and Suicide

Hyōdō Ren’ichi

An essay examines a fascination with seppuku and suicide through personal reflections, historical and modern dramatic representations, and eroticized images of abdominal cutting and self-destruction.

The Woman Bound by Eight Men

Kishimoto Seiryū

A richly illustrated feature discusses and reenacts historical Japanese bondage scenes in which women are restrained by several men, describing costumes, settings, rope techniques, and staged photographic compositions.

Three-Point Pulse

Hasegawa Kiyoshi

A narrative-practical feature presents the use of three moxibustion points in a marital bondage and punishment scenario, combining diagrams, fictionalized domestic episodes, and detailed descriptions of the resulting sensations and procedures.

Collection: From My Scrapbook

Saji Kōsuke

Saji Kōsuke presents a first-person scrapbook-style account of encounters and fantasies involving female sadism, bondage, restraint, and sensational erotic situations, framed as collected personal experiences and observations.

The Dreamer of the Seventh Heaven

Asō Kazuo

Asō Kazuo’s serialized fantasy depicts the narrator’s imagined “seventh heaven” through grotesque and erotic scenarios involving obese bodies, humiliation, restraint, voyeuristic spectacle, and unusual sexualized punishments.

Manifestations of Female Wrestling Beauty

Shichifuku Shihei

Shichifuku Shihei offers an eroticized comparative study of women’s wrestling beauty, evaluating wrestlers’ physiques, breasts, buttocks, hair, eyes, facial features, strength, and competitive performance through prose and silhouette illustrations.

A Single Flower

Kataya Kaoru

A historical erotic narrative set in an Edo-period domain depicts peasants crushed by feudal taxation and abuses who organize resistance, endure interrogation and corporal punishment, and ultimately confront the authorities, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains selections from Johannes R. Birlinger's 1901 Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and sexological cases of cruel women, especially mothers and teachers who inflict severe corporal punishment on children.

Diary of a Bloomers Maniac

Yoshitsugu Ippei

Yoshitsugu Ippei offers a first-person fetish confession describing his persistent erotic fascination with bloomers, his efforts to acquire and handle them, and the voyeuristic excitement and fantasies associated with the garments.

Twelve Forms of Contemporary Binding

Takiko

A visual survey presents twelve forms of contemporary Japanese binding, showing restrained figures in varied rope-bound positions with brief handwritten labels.

Punishment in the Twelfth Lunar Month

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu describes an Edo-period Yoshiwara punishment scene in which a courtesan is subjected to severe restraint and “fire punishment,” framed as warmth during the cold twelfth lunar month.

Illustrated Floor and Household Restraint

Miyako Mineko

An illustrated instructional feature demonstrates several floor-based and household restraint arrangements, depicting bound bodies, ropes, and positional variations in domestic settings.

Broom Torment

Seki

An illustrated erotic sequence depicts a woman subjected to broom-based torment while restrained in a series of posed bondage and punishment scenes.

Mask and Bound Hands and Feet

A photographic feature presents a masked woman with her hands and feet tightly bound, emphasizing immobilization and sensory restriction.

Tall Woven Boots

A photographic fetish feature focuses on a pair of tall lace-up woven boots worn by a white woman, presenting the footwear and feet as eroticized visual objects.

Spider

An erotic illustration titled “Spider” depicts a woman entwined with or threatened by a large spider-like figure in a dark, fantastical scene.

River Imp

Seki

“River Imp,” by Seki, is an erotic fantasy illustration based on the Japanese kappa folklore motif, showing a woman in a surreal encounter with a river creature.

Cruel Women: Illustrated Examples

commentary by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō presents an illustrated and photographic survey of “cruel women,” discussing Western images of dominant women who humiliate, punish, control, or otherwise overpower men in staged erotic scenes.

Playful Domestic Service: Washing

A staged domestic-service scene shows a woman using a submissive man as a living stand while she handles a washbasin and prepares to apply makeup.

Playful Domestic Service: Trampling

A photographic sequence depicts a dominant woman trampling and pressing her feet against a submissive man, presenting the act as a playful but humiliating queen-and-servant scene.

Service, Part One: Chair

The first “chair” service exercise presents a woman seated or supported above a kneeling man in a shoulder-ride posture, who must maintain the position until released by his dominant mistress.

Service, Part Two: Shrimp Binding

A photographic feature depicts a woman secured in a compact shrimp-style bondage posture as part of a punishment or service scene.

Newlywed Bondage Fantasy: Departure

Hanayama Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration presents a newlywed domestic bondage fantasy in which a husband restrains his bride while attempting to take her temperature.

Newlywed Bondage Fantasy: Waterfall

Hanayama Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration depicts a newlywed domestic scene in which a husband approaches his resisting wife with an enema apparatus.

New Restraint Clothing

Shikata Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a man and woman modeling an elaborate outfit incorporating straps, belts, and other restrictive elements.

Private-Room Play

Shikata Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a private-room scene in which a woman is held and restrained with ropes and chains by a male partner.

Punishment Platform

Yoda Seiichi and Owazaki Hiroshi

This illustrated feature presents a punishment platform and related surrealistic scenes of figures secured with ropes, wires, and specialized restraint furniture.

A Year Wearing a Fundoshi

A photographic feature presents a young male wearing a fundoshi, alongside staged images of undressing associated with women’s underwear fetishism.

Outdoor Trampling and Whipping

Haruhi Rumi and two models

A staged outdoor sequence depicts models pursuing, knocking down, binding, trampling, and striking a restrained subject in a wooded setting.

Photographic Outdoor Rope Sequence

Haruhi Rumi and models

A step-by-step photographic sequence demonstrates outdoor rope restraint, including tying a subject to a pine tree, manipulating posture, and completing the bound pose.

Mirror of Delusion

Hōrōkyō, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Mirror of Delusion” depicts a figure enclosed in an ornate, fantastical setting surrounded by grotesque, possibly demonic forms.

Hell

Jōkō Juku, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Hell” portrays nude figures undergoing torment amid demonic imagery in an infernal landscape.

Shrimp Binding

Kawabata Tanako

“Shrimp Binding” presents a photographic bondage feature showing a woman posed and secured with chains in a tightly folded, restrained position.

Kimono Suspension

Kawabata Tanako

A photographic feature presents a woman in a patterned kimono suspended and restrained with rope, emphasizing the interaction of traditional clothing, posture, and bondage display.

Waist Restraint

contributor credit uncertain

A photographic study depicts a woman kneeling while bound around the waist, presenting a staged restraint posture as a visual demonstration.

Yuriko’s Adventure

Inoue Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

This illustrated serialized erotic adventure follows Yuriko as she is pursued and forcibly restrained by men aboard a ship, escapes into the sea, reaches a tropical island, and encounters unfamiliar island inhabitants amid continuing…

An Invitation to Rope Play

Tsujimura Takashi

An instructional dialogue presents rope-play scenarios involving wives, lovers, students, and other partners, explaining methods of binding the body, blindfolding and gagging, positional restraint, and suspension through accompanying photographs and drawings.

The Woman of the Brothel

Mori Jun’nosuke

An erotic narrative follows a brothel woman whose encounters with the male narrator develop through themes of captivity, restraint, submission, jealousy, and forbidden desire, illustrated with staged bondage scenes.

Continued Diary of an Enema Maniac

Hanamura Emiko

A continuation of a fetish diary recounts the author’s intense interest in enemas, including intimate experiences, medical examinations, hospital visits, equipment, fluids, and increasingly elaborate procedures involving partners and acquaintances.