Stepmother Abuse

Ōmura Mitsuko

A coercive fantasy recounts an adopted girl’s mistreatment after her father remarries, depicting a cruel stepmother’s domestic confinement, forced exposure, binding, and corporal punishment.

My Seppuku

Fuwa Kazuko

An eroticized first-person account of female seppuku imagery and abdominal cutting, emphasizing blood, pain, self-inflicted injury, and the narrator’s fascination with the scene.

Ten Months in Captivity

Tsubouchi Ittetsu

A first-person memoir of ten months in prison describing institutional routines, exercise and sports, films, fellow prisoners, correspondence, sexual frustration, and reflections on relationships with women after confinement.

Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Part Four

Itō Seiu

The fourth installment of a serialized illustrated work that combines historical discussion of Japanese women’s hairstyles with erotic scenes of hair, rope restraint, abduction, and punishment.

Research Presentation on Nose Torture

Furuta Kichirō

A research-style presentation of nose torture describes experiments and techniques involving nose rings, cords, pulling, and restraint, accompanied by an instructional illustration.

A Year as an Abortionist

Karii Rei

A serialized account of amateur erotic photography explains how to stage and photograph bondage scenes, covering models, tying methods, cameras, lighting, film, costs, and practical mishaps.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated selection from Johannes R. Birlinger’s 1901 Das Grausame Weib surveys historical and sensational cases of women inflicting corporal punishment, abuse, and humiliation on men, children, and other women.

Ten Forms of Moxibustion for Women

Iwase Yōichi

An illustrated instructional feature presents ten forms of moxibustion applied to women, framing heat, pain, bodily exposure, and restraint as eroticized disciplinary practices.

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numa Shōzō

A notebook-style account examines masochistic fantasies and experiences involving bondage, humiliation, animalization, forced service, and imagined or enacted physical discipline, accompanied by illustrative scenes and references to related erotic literature.

Regionality of Male Homosexuality

Shiga Yūji

A sexological survey analyzes the regional distribution of male homosexuality in Japan using comparative data, maps, and discussion of urbanization, occupation, culture, climate, and social environment.

How I Punish Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An erotic narrative depicts a series of staged punishment encounters involving rope bondage, gags, enforced poses, verbal commands, and escalating struggles between the participants.

I Want to Become a Model

Ozawa Kazuo

Presented as a first-person confession, this feature traces a man’s exhibitionist desires from childhood through adulthood, including fantasies and experiences of appearing nude before others and wanting to become a model.

Solitude

Furukawa Yūko

A first-person confessional narrative explores a woman’s divided identity, profound loneliness, and masochistic desire through elaborate rope-bondage fantasies and scenes involving her husband and other imagined observers.

Kelp and the Boy

Mori Taichi

This erotic fiction follows a boy named Taichi through increasingly charged encounters involving kelp, nudity, restraint, and adult-directed fantasy, using the kelp as a distinctive fetishistic and bondage motif.

The Devil's Game

Futamata Shizuko

A sadomasochistic erotic narrative in which Shizuko is drawn into a series of coercive games involving captivity, restraint, humiliation, and violent punishment.

Yamato Nadeshiko

An illustrated sadomasochistic narrative depicting women subjected to institutional discipline, restraint, corporal punishment, forced exposure, and humiliating treatment in prison- and workplace-like settings.

Punishment Garment

Mizushima Maru

An illustrated practical feature describes the construction and use of a restrictive “punishment garment,” presenting staged scenarios involving clothing, ropes, chains, exposure, and controlled positioning.

Memories of Punishment Pictures

A retrospective essay on punishment-themed pictures discusses the creation and recollection of erotic illustrations depicting restraint, immersion, suspension, electric shock, and other sensationalized scenes.

A Kiso Tale

A serialized erotic narrative set around the Kiso region follows violent encounters, captivity, and coercive punishment involving masters, servants, travelers, and bound women.

Modern Masochism Art Review

An extended critical essay examines masochistic imagery and gendered power in modern films, discussing imported cinema, staged scenes, costumes, spectatorship, and the psychological effects of visualizing female and male submission.

Commentary on the Strange Beauty of Illustrations

Yamaguchi Kōichi

Yamaguchi Kōichi provides aesthetic and interpretive commentary on several erotic illustrations, explaining their composition, bodily poses, medicalized and disciplinary scenarios, and the visual techniques used to intensify masochistic feeling.

The Feast of the Milk Bath

A serialized erotic fantasy follows the brutal domination of male servants and schoolboys by powerful women, combining elaborate household scenarios, forced service, humiliation, corporal punishment, and recurring milk-bath imagery.

The True Face of a Bondage Model

Samura Akira

A reportage profile of a professional bondage model follows her rope-bound photo sessions, including staged restraint, gagging, and other demanding poses, while discussing her appearance, working relationships, and experiences with photographers.

The Female Underwear Photography Maniac

A first-person feature examines a man’s intense interest in photographing women’s underwear, describing covert and staged photography, the pursuit of subjects, equipment, image collecting, and the fetishistic appeal of garments and glimpsed bodies.

Training

Dan Yoshikazu

A dark erotic narrative follows a woman subjected to escalating training, coercion, bondage, humiliation, and sadistic control, presented through scenes of restraint, discipline, and psychological submission.

The End of Aestheticism

Nakatani Reiichi

This prize-winning crime narrative investigates the death of a young woman whose body bears signs of elaborate restraint and sexual abuse, gradually exposing voyeuristic, cross-dressing, and psychologically disturbed behavior surrounding the case.

Night-Light Island

Kurihara Sōshin

A serialized mystery-erotic novel follows detective Kenjiro as he investigates a suspicious island incident involving a missing or abducted woman, police inquiries, secret identities, and scenes of captivity, binding, and coercion.

Twenty Years of Pursuit: A Retrospective

Yamada Masami

A memoir-like retrospective traces the author’s decades-long engagement with “abnormal” sexuality, combining reflections on masochistic and fetishistic desires with anecdotes and historical-cultural examples involving female warriors, domination, and erotic imagination.

Illustrated Belly-Cutting Feature

An illustrated erotic fantasy presents a woman in a flight suit undergoing a ritualized belly-cutting or seppuku scene, with swords, restraint, and coercive imagery framing the episode as an idealized form of female submission.

Current Topics, Reader Communications, and Editorial Departments

A broad departmental section combining current-topic commentary, film and image-set discussion, reader letters, fetish- and practice-focused communications, club and publication notices, and previews of forthcoming issue content. It documents the magazine’s editorial network and…

Reiko's Strange Poses

An erotic illustration feature depicting Reiko in a series of unusual nude poses and stylized bodily positions.

Wrapped in Green

A staged outdoor bondage photograph shows Nanako Murata wrapped in a cape and rope-bound in a forest, with her hands tied behind her back.

Hagi Chieko Tight-Binding Pose Collection

A photographic pose collection presents model Chieko Hagi in multiple tightly bound and gagged positions, including seated, kneeling, and floor-bound arrangements.

Fantasy Through Rope

A photographic feature presents women bound with rope in a series of posed scenes emphasizing elaborate restraint, bodily immobilization, and erotic fantasy.

How Is the Seat?

A staged photographic feature depicts women controlling and restraining men in seated and kneeling positions, foregrounding female authority and positional bondage.

Horse Riding

An outdoor photographic sequence titled “Horse Riding” portrays women using ropes and body positioning to restrain men in grassland settings, including horse-like and mounted tableaux.

Simulated Seppuku with a Real Knife

A staged photographic scene presents simulated seppuku with a genuinely sharp short blade, emphasizing the appearance of danger while explaining that the flexible skin is not pierced when the knife is lightly pressed against…

Living Cutting Board

Photographs depict a dominant woman using a kneeling nude man as a human support and directing his behavior, including having him remain still and putting socks on him.

Nude Beauty

This photographic feature presents nude and partially dressed figures in posed scenes, including undressing and an erotic tableau involving two bodies.

Collection of Cruel Women

A photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of cruel female authority, including a mistress controlling, humiliating, and punishing submissive male slaves with poses, whips, and enforced kneeling.

Peach-Blossom Realm

A staged erotic photograph depicts a nearly nude woman secured in a heavy wooden restraint structure with chained wrists and ankles, evoking captivity and bondage apparatus.

After the Whistle

An erotic illustration portrays a chained female slave receiving an order to return to work under threat of renewed whipping, combining captivity, racialized servitude, and corporal punishment.

The Lover Who Cut the Dress

An erotic illustration depicts a lover confronting and threatening a woman who has betrayed him, with the accompanying dialogue demanding money for his silence.

Dalma and the Fashion Model

An erotic illustration titled “Dalma and the Fashion Model” humorously contrasts a fashion model with a rounded, doll-like male figure in an intimate embrace.

Illustrated Torture Interrogation

A series of eroticized illustrations presents four interrogation-torture scenarios attributed to special police questioning a suspected thought criminal, including suspension, forced drinking, finger compression, and burning with newspaper.

In the Mountain Villa

Sugihara Kōji

An erotic illustration set in a mountain villa depicts a kimono-clad woman dominating and threatening a man with a sword while he lies restrained on the floor.

No Need for Intervention

Sugihara Kōji

A samurai-era erotic illustration portrays a woman in a state of undress being confronted and controlled by an armed man, evoking punishment and sexual coercion.

Water Torture

This illustrated water-torture scene presents a captive woman subjected to drowning or submersion threats in a secret room, alongside text describing kidnapped women being traded by slave merchants.

As a Problem of the Self: Reading New Developments in Inversion Research

Hayashi Yumio

Hayashi Yumio critically examines contemporary research on “inversion” (homosexuality), questioning simple distinctions between normality and abnormality and weighing innate disposition, psychological factors, social environment, ethics, and cultural change. The essay also challenges reductive biological…

Pleasurable Lesbian Sex

An eroticized lesbian-sex feature presents imagined or dramatized encounters between women through suggestive dialogue, intimate scenarios, and discussions of sexual roles, desire, and bodily pleasure. Its tone combines sexual fantasy with a permissive treatment…

Bass Solo

Shirogane Kōji

A serialized erotic script follows artists, photographers, and women through staged encounters involving seduction, exhibition, voyeuristic photography, coercive posing, nudity, and bondage-like situations. The dialogue-driven narrative repeatedly turns women’s bodies and sexual vulnerability into…

Female Seppuku Fantasy, Continued

A serialized erotic fantasy depicts a woman subjected to increasingly elaborate restraint, torture, and ritualized female seppuku, accompanied by graphic staged illustrations and procedural descriptions.

White-Faced Demon

Taketani Jūzō

This serialized SM fiction follows a troubled love triangle involving adultery, jealousy, captivity, sexual humiliation, and escalating sadistic punishment imposed on women by male and female characters.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

Translated from a 1901 German illustrated work, this historical account presents cases of allegedly cruel women—especially a female teacher whose disciplinary practices become abusive—through descriptions of corporal punishment, sexualized cruelty, and institutional authority.

Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Part Five

Itō Seiu

The fifth installment examines Japanese hair practices and hairstyles across historical periods, linking elaborate coiffures, theatrical conventions, and hair-binding imagery to changing ideals of beauty and eroticized restraint, with numerous accompanying illustrations.

Seppuku Suicide

A newspaper-style report describes the seppuku suicide of a young man, including the circumstances of the act, medical response, and subsequent death.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers, Part Two

Azuma Shin

The second installment surveys Meiji-era newspaper stories involving gender, sexuality, marriage, domestic conflict, cross-dressing, violence, and sensational social incidents, commenting on what these reports reveal about changing sexual and social norms.

Movie Musings

Kawamura Misao

A film commentary examines bondage, captivity, punishment, and sexually charged performances in Japanese and foreign cinema, discussing actors, staging, camera work, and the appeal of restraint imagery.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person account of ten months in prison describes captivity, surveillance, disciplinary rules, graded privileges, forced training-factory labor, inspections, punishment, and the routines of institutional life.

An Inquiry into Sex

Futamata Shizuko

This sexological essay, framed partly as a response to a letter from “M,” considers sexual desire, gendered behavior, evolutionary and social explanations, and changing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexual freedom.

Thirty Years of Pursuing Abnormality: Women

Yamada Masami

Yamada Masami reflects on thirty years of observing and pursuing women’s “abnormal” sexuality, centering on a married couple whose experiments with appearance, flirtation, jealousy, and sexual disclosure reshape their relationship. The essay presents these…

On Ejaculation

Mizushima Maru

This award-winning erotic narrative depicts Taeko being dressed in a diaper cover, restrained in uncomfortable positions, and subjected to escalating bodily discomfort, sweating, urination, and humiliation. The story emphasizes the fetishistic clothing and sensory…

My Underwear

A reader-centered confession and exchange discusses a fetishistic fixation on women’s underwear, including worn or soiled garments, bodily scent, and the desire to wear or handle them. The piece combines personal testimony with the…

Strange Wind

Kurihara Shin

Kurihara Shin reflects on the magazine’s literary and visual representations of sadism, bondage, and erotic fantasy, defending imaginative illustration while comparing it with fiction, film, censorship, and readers’ expectations. The essay also comments on…

Spectacle and Sadism

Tsuchiya Naniwa

An essay on sadism as spectacle, drawing on freak shows, popular entertainment, historical anecdotes, wartime memories, and the author’s reflections on the public’s fascination with staged bodily suffering and grotesquerie.

Abortion Discussion

Karii Rei

A photographic and autobiographical discussion of producing staged bondage images, describing models, studio arrangements, rope and cloth restraints, poses, lighting, and the aesthetic presentation of bound bodies.

Diary of a Female Sadist

Nagase Akiko

A first-person diary of a female sadist recounting encounters with women and scenes of female-led restraint, humiliation, and painful sexual domination, accompanied by erotic illustrations of the episodes.

Fallen Passion

Sawai Kazuo

A serialized erotic narrative set around a theatrical entertainment venue follows performers, spectators, and intermediaries through staged nudity, voyeuristic display, and shifting power dynamics. The story emphasizes sexual humiliation, performance, and the boundary between…

My Genealogy of Inversion

A first-person essay traces the author’s lifelong fascination with nude bodies, from childhood impressions and wartime or athletic imagery to nude photography, illustration, physical culture, and imagined erotic scenes. It presents this development as…

Bad Habit

Enomoto Toshiko

An erotic story follows a married couple whose troubling sexual habit and fetishistic impulses lead to scenes of coercion, humiliation, confession, and attempted reconciliation. Foot-focused behavior is central to the couple’s marital sexual conflict.

How I Torture Him

Takarazuka Fumio

A first-person erotic feature presents elaborate methods for restraining and tormenting women, describing rope ties, handcuffs, blindfolds, suspension, staged scenes, and humiliating commands in hotel and workplace settings.

The Man Who Longs for Death by Strangulation

A confessional narrative traces a man’s lifelong fascination with strangulation and death, from childhood memories and fantasies to experiments involving ropes, self-binding, suspension, and imagined execution.

Crucifixion Fantasy

Jūji Kōsuke

An essay on crucifixion as a cruel yet visually compelling form of punishment, examining its representation in films, literary works, and staged scenes of bound women and men.

Secret Japanese Sadistic Murder Cases

Miki Yoshio

A sensationalized reconstruction of a concealed incident in Manchuria in which Japanese protagonists are detained, abused, pursued, and killed, presented through narrative dialogue and stark illustrations of captivity and execution.

Recollections

A personal wartime recollection describes returning home after the Pacific War and naval service, contrasting the discipline of military life with the freedom and domestic comfort of postwar civilian life.

On Pictures of Torture

An illustrated essay reflects on historical torture and punishment scenes, discussing how violent restraint, captivity, and suffering were transformed into eroticized imagery in modern specialist publishing. It examines six accompanying illustrations of women subjected…

A Boy's Monologue

Maki Keiichi

A first-person monologue follows a boy’s adolescent sexual awakening, centered on his fascination with the bodies of older rugby players and his secret voyeuristic fantasies, same-sex desire, and conflicted feelings of shame and longing.

Cursed Bond

Mitsunashi Haruhiko

A historical crime narrative set in the Edo period recounts the brutal investigation, torture, confession, execution, and aftermath of a couple accused of murdering an infant, emphasizing sensational punishment practices and public spectacle.

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numa Shōzō

A purported masochist’s notebook presents episodes of coercive marital sexuality, humiliation, fetishistic bodily practices, and sadomasochistic fantasy, followed by commentary and bibliographic notices on related erotic literature and imagery.