The Education of the Jealous Man

Nakaya Reiichi

A pseudo-medical and psychological essay examines pathological jealousy through case-like accounts of abnormal sexuality, including masochistic fantasies, self-binding, and morbid ideas about death and sexual control.

On Arms as Female Beauty

Yamaguchi Sanjūshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay treats the female arm as an object of erotic beauty, discussing its shape, skin, hair, musculature, grooming, and the emotional and cultural meanings attached to its display.

Night-Light Island, Part Three

Kurihara Mugishin; illustrations by Shinjō

The third installment of a serialized erotic adventure follows encounters on an isolated island involving pursuit, coercion, captivity, verbal humiliation, restraint with ropes and household objects, and escalating sexual domination.

Obsession with Women’s Necks

Kasa Kazuten, romanization uncertain

An essay on an intense erotic fixation with women’s necks, illustrated through scenes of neck-focused restraint, handling, and visual attention.

The Woman with Red Armpits: Confession of My Armpit History

Saji Kōsuke

A first-person confession tracing the author’s armpit fetish, including erotic encounters, fantasies, clothing, body hair, and staged scenes of armpit-focused restraint and display.

Diaper Torment

Akai Shigeru

An illustrated feature describing diapering as an erotic torment practice, emphasizing diapers, immobilization, humiliation, and punitive control.

From My Manga Scrapbook

Haruki Toshino, romanization uncertain

A scrapbook-based survey of striking manga and magazine clippings, discussing bizarre and erotic imagery, changing publishing practices, and the appeal of sensational illustrations to readers.

The Escaped Prisoner

Shinohara Sakue

A serialized erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows an escaped prisoner through pursuit, recapture, interrogation, confinement, and humiliating punishment by female authorities and their associates.

Enema Curiosities

Ōki Takashi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated first-person account of enema examinations and treatments emphasizes medicalized bodily exposure, embarrassment, coercive examination, and the narrator’s fascination with the procedure and its apparatus.

The Merits and Faults of the Navel in Senryū

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay examines the merits, faults, and erotic associations of the navel through humorous senryū, drawing on examples that connect bodily appearance, pregnancy, beauty, and intimate observation.

The Compulsive Undresser

Aoba Shin’ichi

A case-style psychological account explores compulsive undressing, describing public and private episodes of male and female nudity while considering exhibitionistic impulses, social inhibition, and possible clinical causes.

Further Reflections on Female Seppuku

Taya Takao; illustrations by Umeda Junzō

An illustrated essay surveys female seppuku as a historical and imaginative motif, combining literary scenarios, visual depictions, wartime and peacetime comparisons, case statistics, and discussion of motives, gender, and eroticized violence.

The Disappeared Hose

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic serialized story follows a company group and married couple on a hot-spring excursion, where social encounters, bathing arrangements, disguise, and a missing stocking generate embarrassment and suggestive complications.

Cruelty to the Abdomen

Ōshima Hajime

A prose-and-illustration feature surveys sadistic fantasies focused on cutting, piercing, binding, and otherwise tormenting the abdomen, presenting elaborate scenarios of bodily injury and distress.

Women, Flowers of Crucifixion

Nakagawa Fusao; illustrations by Shikata Takashi

A historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to crucifixion, restraint, interrogation, and execution amid Edo-period violence, concluding with extended fantasies of female abdominal cutting and ritualized death. Its illustrations emphasize staged scenes of punishment,…

Contemporary Masochism Art Criticism

Hara Tadamasa

An art-critical essay examines contemporary masochism through opera, cinema, music, painting, and literary representation, arguing that masochistic aesthetics emerge through psychologically charged images of suffering, restraint, and eroticized power. It discusses works and artists…

Tight Bond

Kusanagi Hisato

A serialized erotic narrative follows a married couple whose relationship develops through coercive encounters, binding, confinement, humiliation, and escalating struggles over authority, desire, and secrecy. The story repeatedly links domestic intimacy with physical restraint…

A Record of Lesbos

Murai Keiko, credit reading uncertain

A literary account of Lesbos explores female same-sex desire through references to Sappho and tribadism, combining reflections on sexual psychology with scenes of attraction, jealousy, secrecy, and intimate correspondence. Its episodes trace how forbidden…

Sexual Fluids, Part Eleven

Itō Seiu

The eleventh installment of a transgressive erotic narrative presents theatrical scenes of sexual display, coercion, nudity, and voyeuristic spectatorship among performers and audiences.

A Study of Female Wrestling Beauty

Kitajima Kazutoshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated study of female wrestling examines wrestling holds, bodily strength, movement, and the eroticized visual appeal of wrestlers’ bodies, especially the breasts, hips, legs, and buttocks.

Ten Months in Confinement

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person account of ten months in confinement describes prison cells, surveillance, inspections, labor, meals, daily schedules, interpersonal tensions, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

On Enema Play

Hamura Kyōko

Hamura Kyōko presents a practical account of enema play, describing equipment, insertion methods, body positions, quantities, and precautions, accompanied by instructional illustrations of restrained participants.

Recollections of Moxibustion Mania

Hosaka Shin, credit reading uncertain

Hosaka Shin recounts a moxibustion fixation involving repeated therapeutic and eroticized applications of heat, bodily exposure, restraint, and the intense sensations associated with treatment.

A Cross-Dressing Photography Maniac

Suzuki Jūzō

Suzuki Jūzō describes a cross-dressing photography enthusiast who collects women’s clothing, transforms his appearance, poses for photographs, and pursues increasingly elaborate staged images and private fantasies.

The Life of Rakukichi

Hakubundō Kichiroku, credit reading uncertain

A serialized autobiographical erotic narrative follows Rakukichi from school and adolescence into adult life, emphasizing his repeated encounters with physically and psychologically dominant women, humiliation, punishment, and male submission. The illustrated episodes also depict…

A Teacher’s Confession

contributor credit uncertain

Presented as a teacher’s first-person confession, this episode describes the sexualized disciplining, coercion, and humiliation of younger male subordinates, framed through workplace hierarchy and the narrator’s sadistic control.

Perversion Through Extremes and Contradictions

Kitajima Kazutoshi

Kitajima Kazutoshi reflects on extreme and contradictory forms of sexual desire through autobiographical encounters, discussing fetishistic attraction, voyeuristic observation, pursuit of women, and fantasies of domination, bodily transformation, and humiliation. The closing material also…

From My Miscellaneous Reflections

Nakagawa Fusao

A personal miscellany reflecting on the contents and presentation of a recent erotic magazine issue, including its visual material, readers’ reactions, and the author’s preferences for future publishing.

The Lifeline My Father Gave Me

Tobita Ryōji

A sensational fictional narrative in which Aiko is confined in a psychiatric hospital, subjected to coercive medicalized abuse and restraint, and drawn into a violent escape and revenge plot involving her father and the…

The Plaza of Evil

Kawada Junko, credit reading uncertain

A multi-part sensational feature combining purported case accounts, personal testimonies, and editorial commentary about unusual sexual behavior, coercion, medical treatment, humiliation, and the psychology of masochistic desire.

A Correctional-Psychology Response to Perversion

editorial or specialist contributor

This essay challenges prevailing interpretations of “perversion” in group psychology, arguing that social and political pressures can produce or magnify supposedly deviant behavior and that such cases should be examined with greater psychological nuance.

Female Seppuku in Historical Printed Works

Kawai Itsuko

Kawai Itsuko examines depictions of female seppuku in early Japanese kusazōshi and related printed narratives, discussing recurring scenes of women’s self-disembowelment, loyalty, sacrifice, and dramatic eroticized violence.

Recollections of a Hernia Belt

Mori Ta

Mori Ta recounts childhood and adolescent experiences involving a hernia belt, medical examinations, bodily exposure, discipline, and the lasting fascination these encounters created, accompanied by illustrations of the remembered scenes.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated survey of historical anecdotes about cruel women, emphasizing female authority, domestic discipline, corporal punishment, and sadistic treatment of children, servants, and husbands.

On a Day of Love

Furukawa Yūko

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman’s intense love and emotional dependence become entangled with coercion, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and repeated scenes of physical restraint, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

Actresses Who Were Bound

Ioka Kinshū, romanization uncertain

An illustrated feature surveys stories and staged depictions of actresses being tied, describing bondage scenes, restraint methods, and the erotic appeal of female captives in theatrical and cinematic contexts.

On Four Beautiful Women’s Noses

Kitaya Mizo, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay examines the noses of four women presented as beautiful, comparing their shapes, proportions, and facial effects while discussing changing ideals of feminine beauty and cosmetic judgment.

From a Masochist’s Notebook

contributor credit uncertain

A serialized first-person masochist’s notebook recounts fantasies and encounters involving submission, humiliation, service, and discipline under socially dominant women, framed through class, gender, and authority relations.

To Ibuki Misako

contributor credit uncertain

A letter addressed to Ibuki Misako discusses staged bondage photography, including breast restraints, nudity, rope work, poses, and the visual presentation of the female model’s body.

The Hero of Perversion: Oda Nobunaga

Yasuda Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

An illustrated historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga’s cruelty, sexual domination, captivity, punishment, and encounters with performers and subjects amid Sengoku-era warfare and courtly life.

Masochism Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section presents readers’ and editors’ exchanges about masochistic and sadistic interests, erotic photographs, illustrations, posing, clothing, and requests for future magazine material.

Lesbos Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section collecting accounts and questions about female homosexuality, lesbian desire, gender presentation, and related erotic experiences.

Enema Correspondence

multiple readers

Readers exchange detailed personal accounts and practical observations concerning enemas, intestinal cleansing, enema devices, bodily sensations, and the erotic use of enemas.

Abdominal-Cutting and Cross-Dressing Correspondence

multiple readers

Correspondence discussing abdominal-cutting imagery and fantasies, including requests for and descriptions of scenes involving female bodies and cross-dressing.

Prize Announcements, Editorial Notes, Contents, and Publication Information

Front matter and house notices announce contest results and forthcoming features, list the issue’s contents and contributors, solicit reader submissions and photographs, and provide subscription, mail-order, and publication information for Kitan Club.

Ten Scenes of Yoshiwara in Senryū (川柳吉原風景十態)

A ten-panel illustrated senryū feature depicts erotic and comic scenes associated with Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, including flirtation, sexual teasing, voyeurism, and playful restraint.

Ink Blackening (墨ぬり)

Kudaka Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration by Kudaka Kazuhisa portrays a kimono-clad woman engaged in an ink-brushing or ink-blackening scene, emphasizing stylized Japanese beauty, costume, and fetishized visual presentation.

The Bloodstained Reins (血染の手綱)

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu’s illustrated erotic narrative presents a historical-period tale of sexual coercion, voyeuristic spectacle, punishment, and women subjected to elaborate restraint, including rope and snake imagery.

Women's Underwear Seen in Foreign Magazines (外国誌にみた女性の肌着)

A photographic feature drawn from foreign magazines presents women in revealing outfits and staged views of lingerie, emphasizing the visual appeal of stockings, garter belts, slips, and underwear glimpsed beneath fashionable clothing.

Masterpiece Collection: Aerial Flight and Reverse Suspension (傑作集 空中飛行・逆さ吊り)

This illustrated masterpiece collection depicts women subjected to elaborate suspension and inverted-hanging arrangements, with wrists, ankles, ropes, bars, and rings used to create dramatic aerial and reverse-suspension poses.

Picture Collection of Cruel Women: Paul Kamm Special (残虐なる女性達画集 パウル・カム特集)

Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō introduces a Paul Kamm picture collection portraying cruel and dominant women in staged scenes of whipping, riding, restraint, and other coercive erotic tableaux, captioned with German titles.

A Man Sat Upon by a Woman (女の尻に敷かれる男)

A staged photograph shows a woman folding a restrained man over her lap and sitting on him while he supports himself with his head under her control.

A Man Trampled by a Woman (女に踏みつけられる男)

A staged photograph depicts a woman standing over and trampling a prone male model, emphasizing his humiliation and her control, including through high-heeled footwear.

Restraint Devices Disguised as Clothing (衣装化した拘束具)

Two foreign photographs present elaborate restraint devices disguised as women’s clothing, including a dramatic full-body costume and a corset-and-skirt ensemble.

The Million-Dollar Bottom (百万ドルのお臀)

A staged erotic photograph foregrounds a woman’s prominently displayed buttocks, with corsetry, long gloves, half-boots, and visible underwear contributing to the fetishized presentation.

Three Poses of a Beauty (美態三態)

A photographic feature presents three posed views of a woman in a bathing suit at the Sayama boat-racing venue, combining outdoor scenery, spectatorship, and exhibitionist display.

Ice Skating (アイス・スケート)

Kudaka Kazuhisa

An illustrated feature depicts women in stylized ice-skating scenes, including athletic poses, falls, stretching, and playful mishaps in revealing skating costumes.

Wrapped in Thin Gauze (薄羅をまといて)

A photographic portfolio presents women posed nude or lightly draped in gauze, emphasizing veiled bodies, backs, buttocks, and intimate rear-view compositions; accompanying text comments on the difficulty of reproducing the veil’s detail and promises…

Transformation Diagram (変相図)

An erotic illustration portrays a nude woman amid smaller nude figures, a threatening supernatural environment, and imagery suggestive of torment in a mythic or Buddhist-style hellscape.

Hell (地獄)

A detailed erotic illustration depicts a hellish punishment scene with nude figures, an armed tormentor, and women gathered around a bound or afflicted male figure.

Gloves (手袋)

A photographic feature highlighting black leather gloves against a woman's pale skin, including scenes of a woman posed with chained ankles and gloved contact that emphasize tactile restraint and fetishized accessories.

Footstool and Seat (跛台・腰掛)

Staged photographs depict a female-dominant “queen” using a submissive servant as a footstool and seat, with accompanying text describing the servant’s obedient, physically uncomfortable support during her activities.

Service in the Toilet and Bathroom (トイレと浴室での奉仕)

Photographs and captions present a servant attending to a dominant woman in toilet and bathing-room settings, including washing her feet and being made to smell them.

Acrobat and One-Inch Boy (アクロバット・一寸法師)

A two-part illustrated feature depicts an acrobat being trained backstage and a “One-Inch Boy” using a rope to manipulate a suspended female performer. The scenes present theatrical discipline, bodily control, and staged bondage imagery.

Western Captivity Pictures (西洋捕縛画集)

A collection of Western-themed captivity illustrations portrays women subjected to harsh restraint, including leather punishment tied to a tree and a bound sheriff’s female assistant exposed to vigilante violence. The captions frame these scenes…

The Fetishist's Page (フェチシストのページ)

The “Fetishist’s Page” presents humorous and sensational photographs involving nose teasing, a voyeuristic view of a model’s feet, a blindfolded and bound model, and an enema scene, with captions inviting readers to inspect or…

Two-Woman Combination Photographs (二嬢名コンビ写真)

A staged photographic feature presents two women posed together amid autumn grasses at a historic battlefield and lakeside setting.

The Cultural Reasons for Destructive Instinct (破壊本能の文化的理由)

Hayashi Yumio

Hayashi Yumio examines destructive and self-destructive impulses through Freud-influenced sexual psychology, questioning simplistic explanations of sadism, masochism, delinquency, and postwar social disorder. The essay argues that these behaviors must be understood through cultural conditions,…

The History of Rope and Feet (縄と足の遍歴)

Ikuyama Gimei

This prize-winning confession and experiential essay traces the writer’s fascination with women’s feet alongside rope restraint, combining personal memories, bondage scenarios, foot-focused imagery, and references to films and popular culture.

The Altar of Sodomy, Part Six (ソドミーの祭壇 第六部)

Mine Kōji

The sixth installment of a serialized narrative recounts young male factory workers subjected to harsh institutional discipline, hazing, beatings, restraint, and sexualized humiliation in a coercive workplace environment.

Sadistic Pleasure Centered on the Abdomen (腹部に依る悦虐)

Hyōdō Koichi

An erotic essay examines sadistic pleasure focused on the abdomen, describing and illustrating various methods of striking, binding, sensory discomfort, and bodily punishment.

A Wife's Game of Mutual Inversion: On Cross-Dressing (夫婦の倒錯遊戯―格調ごっこについて)

Yamada Michiko

Presented as a prize-winning confession and experience report, this article describes a married couple’s role-reversal games in which the wife dominates, disciplines, and feminizes her husband through cross-dressing, restraint, and staged erotic scenarios, accompanied…

Sexual Fluids (性液)

Itō Seiu

An erotic narrative follows encounters among urban men, entertainers, and women, combining sexual rivalry, voyeuristic observation, and frank discussion of bodily desire. The story emphasizes shifting power, performance, and psychological tension in intimate relationships.

The Page of Erotic Folly (色惚けのページ)

A miscellany of erotic illustrations and short experiential accounts presents sexual fantasy and unconventional desire in an informal magazine-feature format, accompanied by an invitation for readers to submit their own experiences and writings.

Secret: The Secret of the A-Sensation (秘虐・A感覚の秘密)

Hamura Kyōko

Hamura Kyōko’s confessional account examines the discovery and pursuit of “A-sensation,” describing anal eroticism, enemas, bodily stimulation, and sadomasochistic power dynamics through autobiographical narrative and anatomical illustrations.

Attachment to Deformity (畸型への愛着)

Tsukui Takeshi

A first-person essay examines the author’s enduring attraction to women with bodily deformities, contrasting this fixation with conventional marriage and describing its psychological, romantic, and sexual significance through personal memories and case-like reflections.

Record of a Bondage-Picture Maniac (縛り絵マニアの記録)

Suwa Toshiaki

An autobiographical account traces the author’s fascination with Japanese bondage pictures, illustrated scenes, films, and related visual traditions, describing collecting, aesthetic response, fantasy, and the emotional intensity attached to kinbaku imagery.

Cruel Women (残虐なる女性達)

Morimoto Aizō

A translated, source-based narrative surveys stories of cruel women—especially teachers, guardians, and wives—who discipline or punish others, focusing on corporal punishment, gendered authority, humiliation, and the psychological meaning of punitive scenes.

Child Mountain Festival (子供山笠)

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A nostalgic, eroticized account of Hakata’s child Yamakasa festival describes local customs, boys’ festival dress, and the narrator’s attraction to a beautiful young participant amid the community celebration.