Happy Subordination

A photographic feature depicts a woman directing and physically controlling a bound male partner in a series of staged outdoor scenes, presenting subordination as pleasurable.

The Weight of the Go Board

Photographs show a restrained woman lying beneath a weighted Go board and its pieces, emphasizing the physical pressure and immobilization produced by the bondage apparatus.

Honor Student of the Slave Academy

Abe Storie

Abe Storie’s fictional narrative follows students and staff at a coercive slave academy where new pupils are ranked, trained, punished, and subjected to an elaborate hierarchy of discipline, favoritism, and domination.

Thirty-Nine Strange Nights: Sixteenth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized erotic-fiction installment combines an Edo-period tale of betrayal, captivity, binding, stabbing, and retaliatory punishment with a modern medical narrative about artificial insemination, bodily control, and experimental reproduction. The linked stories frame violence…

My Opinion on the Recommendation of the Kanagawa Prefectural Child Welfare Council

Mōri Ritsuo

Mōri Ritsuo argues against a child-welfare council’s recommendation targeting the magazine, defending erotic publishing as a form of expression and criticizing censorship based on claims of harm to youth. He discusses editorial responsibility, public…

My Hobby: The Silver Wheel

Urakawa Kōzaburō

A first-person confessional essay set around Ginza nightlife recounts conversations and encounters involving a hostess known as Madam, moving between stock-market speculation, fortune-telling, bodily talk, and erotic intimacy. The piece blends urban entertainment reportage…

A Woman’s Record

Sudō Ritsuo

A first-person confession recounts a woman’s enthusiasm for horseback riding, riding clothes, and the psychological excitement associated with equestrian scenes and encounters at a riding club.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

This serialized SM fiction follows a young male captive forced into domestic labor and subjected to restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and domination by women who control his movements and daily life.

Someday, Back Then

Mizuki Seiichi

A fetish memoir recalls an earlier fascination with an older woman, presented through nostalgic dialogue and an accompanying erotic illustration.

To Leave the Familiar Hell Behind

Umeda Hisafumi

A confessional erotic narrative follows a woman trapped in a degrading marriage and her encounters with bondage, humiliation, and sadomasochistic desire as she seeks a way out of her familiar emotional and sexual hell.

A Letter to a Slave Writer

Akashi Masuo

This letter responds to a woman’s account of an attempted ritual disembowelment, reflecting on female seppuku, samurai honor, bodily pain, and the erotic fascination such death imagery held for the writer.

The Abused Spring

Yoshino Mayumi

A confessional masochistic narrative traces a man’s fixation on female cruelty from childhood fantasies through humiliating relationships, culminating in scenes of female domination, bondage, and punishment.

The Abused Chair

Nishida Hitoshi

A confessional essay recounts the author’s encounters with women who eroticize domestic discipline, humiliation, and physical punishment, including scenes of marital and household abuse framed through sexual psychology.

The Circus Troupe’s Daughter

Ueda Takako

An illustrated first-person-style feature about a circus troupe’s daughter presents acrobatic performance, bodily display, rigorous training, and eroticized scenes of control, chastisement, and staged submission.

The Barrier

Hakusan Shigeru

An essay and accompanying male nude image examine the Japanese fundoshi loincloth, its styles and practical use, and its links to masculine bodily display, tradition, and erotic appeal.

A Short Account of Women’s Sumo

A first-person reminiscence describes a women’s sumo troupe and the spectacle of its matches, including the wrestlers’ techniques, physicality, and audience response.

Record of Women’s Sumo

A purported record of a women’s sumo event in Imari recounts the competitors, bouts, techniques, and local exhibition setting in documentary-style detail.

Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women

Sagami Shō

This multi-page biographical feature recounts episodes of courageous contemporary women, including a woman doctor who uses judo and physical force to confront and subdue male criminals and attackers.

The Springtime of My Youth

Iizuka Hide美

A personal reminiscence of youthful fascination with onnagata performance, describing the author’s early encounters with female-role acting, theatrical makeup, feminine beauty, and the experience of performing women’s parts on stage.

The Washerman’s Fantasy

Akiba Etsuo

An erotic fantasy narrated through a washerman’s fixation on women’s underwear, dirty garments, laundering, and the illicit pleasure associated with handling and imagining the wearer’s clothing.

Pack-Horse Number

Kawabata Takako

A first-person account of discovering that a loved woman had previously appeared as a bondage model, prompting an obsessive search through old erotic magazines and feelings of jealousy, shock, and forbidden fascination.

Invitation to Suspension

Nakada Akira

The author responds enthusiastically to a reader interested in intense suspension scenes, discussing suspension arrangements and proposing ideas for staged hanging and restraint presentations.

The Company President and the Female Secretary

Nakano Saburō

A comic erotic dialogue depicts a female secretary reversing the office hierarchy by overpowering, humiliating, and demanding obedience from her company president.

Hōya Shirō on Law

Nakajima Kōdō

This critical essay examines the erotic and grotesque imagery of a seppuku-centered illustrated narrative in which a young man and woman express love through ritualized abdominal cutting and mutual death. It considers the work’s…

My Nursing Diary

Kirishima Jirō

An autobiographical hospital diary recounts the author’s prolonged treatment for kidney disease, including edema, strict salt restriction, injections, dietary routines, relapses, and eventual improvement, while emphasizing the emotional support exchanged with fellow patients and…

The Image of Newspaper Articles

Inano Fumijirō

This feature presents short illustrated erotic narratives modeled on sensational newspaper reports, depicting nurses, girls, and other figures subjected to elaborate tying, gagging, forced postures, and staged scenes of restraint or captivity. Its visual…

The Woman in the Third Special Interrogation Room Underground

Takami Ryōichi

A fictional account set in an underground special interrogation room depicts a woman subjected to coercive questioning, humiliation, forced undressing, binding, gagging, and prolonged positional restraint by male interrogators. The accompanying illustrations intensify the…

Practical Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An illustrated instructional feature on photographing kinbaku scenes, covering model direction, pose selection, camera and lighting choices, seasonal and outdoor conditions, and the practical challenges of producing convincing bondage images. The accompanying photographs demonstrate…

Reader Correspondence and Club Communications

Reader Communications

A wide-ranging reader-communications section presents letters about readers’ erotic and SM experiences, responses to magazine content, requests for advice and photographs, and exchanges among readers, alongside editorial replies, club notices, and publication announcements. It…

Frontispiece: Severed Head, Buttocks, and Alice (Part 1)

Taki Reiko

A full-page erotic illustration functioning as a frontispiece plate, associated with Taki Reiko and the issue’s recurring themes of staged bodies and restraint.

First Gravure: Attractive Poses

Sugihara Moto; Rika Yukiko; Sakurai Yoko; Takeno Hiroko

A photographic portfolio of staged domestic bondage poses using cloth, rope, garments, mirrors, and varied seated, kneeling, and reclining arrangements.

Second Gravure

A sequence of visual gravure sections moves from outdoor tree bondage and prisoner imagery to prayer-like captivity and poses involving mouth restraint.

Female-Body Seppuku (Part 2)

Taki Reiko

Shibari Close-Up Selection

A concentrated sequence of bondage and captivity imagery, including chains, stocks, cages, historical costumes, female prisoners, and melodramatic scenes of punishment and violence.

Valuable Responses to Bondage (Changes in Facial Expression)

A photographic feature documenting facial expression, gagging or masking, chains, cuffs, and the bodily effects of staged restraint.

Coat Bondage

A visual portfolio of clothing-based and rope bondage, presenting controlled posture, flexibility, staged interaction, and restrained female bodies.

Masochist Photos (Toyoki: Chest, Skin, and Performance)

A concluding gravure sequence emphasizing the body, performance, staged restraint, and photographic presentation of fetish scenes, followed by promotional magazine material.

A Satirical Review of Japanese Customs: Harakiri

Einosuke Fukukawa

An extensively illustrated historical-cultural essay on seppuku, covering ritual procedure, implements, attendants, samurai ideology, class and gender, literary and theatrical representations, modern suicide, and the tension between heroic symbolism and bodily suffering.

A Record of Feet (From Novels and Newspaper Articles)

Kiyoshi Kimura

A wide-ranging study of feet as aesthetic, erotic, social, literary, and documentary objects, incorporating fiction, newspaper material, photographs, footwear, hygiene, class, fashion, and painter Itō Shinsui’s views.

Correspondence: To Takagi Kikue

Ritsuo Sudo

An illustrated essay on buttock contours, bodily impressions, erotic aesthetics, photographic display, posture, and the cultural meanings attached to bodily marks.

Masochist Senryu with Author’s Notes: Yokoguri Mazori

Nishida Jin

An illustrated, personalized erotic presentation addressed to Kikue Takagi, describing successive poses, restraint, riding, bodily control, and staged encounters in a gift-like fantasy format.

A Long SM Novel: Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Osamu?

A serialized SM novel involving prison, interrogation, criminal organizations, trafficking, police pursuit, handcuffs, ropes, gagging, sexual coercion, and institutional violence; the visible installment remains unresolved.

A Connoisseur’s Record: That Which Is Infinitely Sweet

Toyama Katsuhiko

A first-person confession about bondage, exhibitionism, fetishistic attention to bodies, self-restraint, Buddhist hell imagery, and identification with readers who share unusual fantasies.

Correspondence: An Appeal to Pregnancy Fetishists

Senuma Shiro

An appeal discussing fascination with pregnancy photographs, enlarged bellies, maternity imagery, prior magazine material, and requests for further reader contributions.

A New Face Appears: Rika Yukiko’s Gift

Tsujimura Takashi

A photographic profile introducing new models through interviews, captions, dialogue, and extensive images of bondage participation, embarrassment, fantasy, and staged display.

Illustrated Text: Memories of Women’s Sumo

Tatsuya Masaharu

An illustrated reminiscence of women’s sumo that emphasizes female strength, grappling, sweat, bodily exposure, spectatorship, and reversal of conventional gender roles.

Confession of Days Gone By: Playing at Being a Baby

Watanabe Kaneko

A long first-person account of adult-baby role-play involving maternal authority, baby clothing, diapers, feeding, carrying, discipline, toilet training, dependency, and psychological regression.

A Connoisseur’s Record: Confession

Saji Masazo

A comic first-person account of hospitality, food, alcohol, bathing, bodily odor, cleanliness, and social embarrassment during an evening gathering.

Experiential Confession Memoir: A Radiantly Sweet Thing

Edonuma Shiro

A personal narrative of bathing and swimming encounters with a muscular man, exploring nudity, physique, admiration, embarrassment, visual comparison, and eroticized bodily observation.

Confession and Correspondence: To Higashiura Hikaru and Takeno Hiroko

Kyoko Hamura

A provocative reader contribution imagining bodily cooking, pregnancy, abdominal cutting, anatomy, enemas, digestion, and transformation through letter-like prose and graphic illustration.

Film: Love and Love—Do Not Love

Watsutani Kazuharu

A sensational film-related feature discussing erotic spectacle, pregnancy, artificial insemination, abortion, fetal development, and the popular presentation of women’s bodies.

Masochism Heaven

Kunii Yoshiro

An illustrated masochism department combining anecdotes and fantasies of humiliation, domination, punishment, pursuit, fetishized clothing and bodies, and shifting gendered power.

An Invitation to Suspension Torture

Toyoshima Riichi

A direct correspondence item discussing suspension, bondage, endurance, limits of participation, and the negotiation of erotic power between correspondents.

Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized grotesque erotic narrative involving wealthy women, servants, money, coercion, bondage, humiliation, bodily violence, disguise, revenge, and criminal exploitation across successive strange-tale episodes.

Fantasy Story: Women Who Cast Away Their Tears

Kondo Fuzuko

An illustrated series of staged accounts in which women are bound, supervised, punished, gagged, humiliated, and made to endure restraint through named scenarios and model-based photographs.

Confession: The Experience of Being a Human Horse

Takako Tsumura

A testimonial account of human-horse role-play involving riding, reins, commands, bodily control, endurance, objectification, and an immersive private-room encounter.

Brief Film Review: The Mature Person

Higashitsuyama Murai Eishu

Fiction: Flower and Snake

Kyotaro Hanamaki

A creative captivity narrative centered on abduction, criminal power, rope binding, gagging, interrogation, punishment, confinement, and attempted rescue, with wealthy captives and pursuers moving through numbered episodes.

Dream Bondage Special Selection

A photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate rope bondage in forest and indoor settings, including tree bondage, tied limbs, blindfolding, gagging, and varied restrained positions.

The Smell of Leather

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration centers on a restrained woman and leather-associated imagery, emphasizing the sensory and fetishistic appeal of leather within a staged bondage scene.

The Willow Room

Kurokawa Fujio

An illustrated installment in the Kurokawa Fujio series depicts a woman bound and gagged in a confined room, combining captivity imagery with erotic restraint.

The Circus Girl

Kurokawa Fujio

An erotic illustration titled “The Circus Girl,” credited to Kurokawa Fujio, depicts a circus performer in an intimate and physically constrained encounter with a male figure.

At the End of the Lady Attendant’s Bloody Struggle

An erotic period-drama illustration shows a partially undressed woman seated with a sword across her lap, evoking a violent struggle involving a lady attendant.

Mourning After the Lord

An erotic historical illustration depicts a bare-breasted woman on a rooftop or balcony holding a sword, suggesting pursuit and devotion to a feudal lord.

The Husband Under Her Heel

An erotic illustration portrays a woman physically dominating a prone husband, who lies beneath her in a posture of submission.

Training the Human Horse

An illustrated scene depicts the training of a human “horse,” with a woman seated astride and controlling a man on all fours while another woman participates with a brush.

Women’s Combat Picture Scroll

This illustrated picture-scroll feature presents women engaged in stylized erotic combat and wrestling, including scenes of one woman pinning or straddling another.

Beautiful Restraint

A photographic portfolio depicts a woman in elaborate rope restraints, emphasizing varied bound poses, bodily display, and the visual aesthetics of kinbaku.

The Germination of Inversion

Katsuura Misao

Katsuura Misao’s autobiographical narrative traces the development of a gender-nonconforming and sexually “inverted” identity from childhood through family experience, theatrical performance, fetish interests, and adult relationships.

Desire to Become a Slave

Shishitsubo Akira

A masochistic erotic fiction follows a man who volunteers to become a woman’s slave and undergoes ritualized service, restraint, commands, and corporal punishment within a mistress-centered fantasy.

The Hidden Side of Human Nature

Tanimura Tetsugen

An essay examines the concealed impulses of human nature through readers’ erotic advertisements, confessions, fantasies, and accounts of bondage, punishment, fetishism, and voyeuristic curiosity.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A long-form erotic narrative follows a group of women and men through elaborate scenes of captivity, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and shifting dominance in a stylized underworld setting.

Fantasy: On My Recent Work

Fujiyama Hide緒

The artist reflects on his recent erotic drawings, explaining his recurring fantasies of powerful women, horse-riding imagery, bodily display, restraint, violence, and dramatic encounters between male and female figures.

The Captured Girl

Sugaya Harumi

A poetic fantasy depicts a girl being captured, tightly bound, immobilized, and subjected to coercive treatment, with sustained attention to her restrained body and helplessness.

A Fantasy of Diapers

Tsuchimaru Mie

This first-person fantasy recounts an adult fascination with diapers, including imagined shopping, wearing floral diaper covers, bodily accidents, exposure, and the humiliation associated with wetness and dependence.

Hymn to Beloved Skin

Edogawa Maruo

A confessional narrative centers on an intense admiration for a brother’s male body and fundoshi loincloth, portraying intimate dressing, bathing, exercise, bodily discipline, and submissive fascination within a domestic relationship.

Three-Way Mirror

Shōji Mitsuhiko

An illustrated essay celebrates women’s abdomens and midsections, discussing the appeal of soft, rounded stomachs and presenting close-up erotic photographs in a documentary-style visual feature.