The Deaths and Severed Heads of Female Warriors

Tsukiji Ichirō

This historical essay surveys stories and imagined scenes of female warriors dying in battle and being beheaded, comparing gendered ideals of martial honor while dwelling on the aesthetic and erotic charge of severed heads…

The Reality of Bondage Photography: Using a Young Wife as a Model

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An experiential account of photographing a young wife in elaborate rope bondage, describing the planning, tying, blindfolding, gagging, lighting, outdoor staging, and the couple’s interactions during the sessions.

Confession: Enchanted by Women’s Clothing

Kuchiki Hiroshi

A personal confession about a married man’s fascination with women’s clothing, recounting his transformation into feminine dress through lingerie, makeup, wigs, and accessories, as well as attempts to appear in public and refine the…

Unfinished Confession: A Preface to My Narcissism

Hata Kōichi

A reflective autobiographical preface on narcissism and self-love, tracing the author’s childhood solitude, family relationships, intellectual development, and persistent tendency toward self-absorption.

Correspondence: A Married Couple’s SM Play

Shingū Akio

A reader correspondence recounts a married couple’s consensual SM play and the ways they incorporate erotic role-play into their domestic relationship.

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twentieth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This extended serialized fiction presents interconnected tales of erotic cruelty, supernatural vengeance, death, bodily mutilation, and medicalized punishment, including the recurring story of the ghostly O-Kiku and the fetishized “foot of Venus.”

Caterina Sart: An Incident of Cruelty

Katsura Keiichi

A short fictional incident of cruelty depicts coercive erotic domination through captivity, bodily control, and disturbing medicalized violence.

A Reader’s Account: Record of a Sadistic Woman

Hari'i Mika

A reader recounts her development into a dominant and sadistic woman, describing coercive relationships, bondage, corporal punishment, and the continuing sexual dynamics of marriage and domestic life.

Exploring the Land of Slaves: A Visit to Sardinia

Arutame Mataji

The third installment of a serialized fantasy follows a traveler entering a slave society where women supervise, restrain, punish, and train male captives through elaborate apparatus and physical ordeals.

Behind-the-Scenes Stories about Enemas: A Conversation with a Nurse

Yamagishi Misao

A conversational feature presents a nurse’s candid behind-the-scenes account of enema treatment, discussing patients, clinical procedures, embarrassment, bodily reactions, and the eroticized significance attached to medical care.

Woman and Snake, Part 3

Hanamaki Sōtarō

This installment of the serialized erotic crime fiction follows the abduction and abuse of a wealthy family, with captors using rope bondage, gagging, humiliation, and enema torture while detectives and associates pursue the case…

SM Dialogue: Theatrical Rehearsal

Nakano Jirō

A scripted SM dialogue presented as a theatrical rehearsal portrays an apartment manager and a television actress in an increasingly coercive encounter involving threats, sexual domination, money, and demands for marriage.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM novella follows a traveler at a rural inn whose interactions with the female servants develop into elaborate scenes of confinement, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and sadistic control, with the narrative escalating through…

Photo Essay: The Scent of M

Ōtsuka Keiko

An illustrated photo-essay and cultural commentary explores the erotic significance of women’s navels, discussing bodily beauty, celebrity and model imagery, and the visual appeal of the exposed female midriff in erotic media.

Prize Confession: Longing for Tattoos

Miyajima Kane

A first-person prize confession describes the author’s intense fascination with Japanese tattoos, especially the erotic appeal of heavily tattooed men encountered in bathhouse and private settings. The narrative links tattoo imagery, bodily display, voyeuristic…

Film Commentary: On Harakiri

Watanabe Kaname

This illustrated personal essay recounts finding an empty enema instrument on Kujūkuri beach and develops the discovery into a humorous reflection on discarded erotic paraphernalia, different enema devices, and the intimate practices associated with…

Conceptions of Female Seppuku: An Insurance Solicitor’s Abdominal Cutting

Sudō Ritsuo

The film commentary examines Shōchiku’s Harakiri, praising its severe visual style and dramatic treatment of samurai honor, social injustice, revenge, and ritual suicide while discussing the film’s adaptation and performances.

Thoughts on Manga Art: Observations on Women’s Intimate Garments

Tajima Naoshi

An illustrated sensational narrative depicts a recently widowed woman abducted by three men and driven to a violent act of self-disembowelment, combining captivity, sexualized violence, and tragic self-destruction.

At a Deep Mountain Villa

Saitō Isao

This essay examines women appearing in male attire across literature, film, theater, and popular imagery, discussing female swordswomen, jockeys, soldiers, and other forms of cross-gender performance as expressions of changing ideals of femininity.

The World of Abnormality as Seen in Film

Nakahara Isao

The feature considers rubber fetishism and other stigmatized erotic interests through personal reflection and anecdotal scenes, arguing that supposedly abnormal desires should be understood in relation to individual experience rather than dismissed outright.

Bondage Calendar: A Woman for Each Month

Nakanishi Kin

A month-by-month bondage calendar presents twelve seasonal tableaux of women bound in varied rope configurations, combining erotic scenarios with calendar imagery and suggestions for staged visual compositions.

The Man Possessed by Glass

Futaki Yoshio

This erotic story follows a man whose fascination with glass develops into an intense fetishistic fantasy involving glass powder, bodily danger, domination, and a woman’s coercive control over him.

Reader Correspondence and Closing Departments

A closing reader-mail section presents extensive correspondence about readers’ experiences, interests, requests, and reactions to the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, alongside editorial replies, product and back-issue notices, submission guidelines, and other publishing information.

First Gravure: Rope and Punishment Studies

A photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of a woman subjected to rope bondage, gagging, positional restraint, and punitive handling in a sequence of seated, kneeling, lying, and assisted poses.

Punishment by Fire Beneath the Feet

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts the punishment of a bound woman through fire applied beneath the feet, framed as a sensational historical torture scene.

The Female Swordsman’s Seppuku

Taki Reiko

An erotic historical illustration portrays a female swordsman performing ritual seppuku in a period Japanese setting, emphasizing the imagery of female death and execution.

The Warrior’s Daughter Commits Suicide

Taki Reiko

A historical erotic illustration depicts a warrior’s daughter kneeling beside a plum branch, partly undressed and apparently preparing to commit ritual suicide with a sword.

The White Number at Night

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The White Number at Night” shows a woman seated in a dark vehicle or compartment while an older man grips her from behind.

Buttock-Beating Platform

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a punishment apparatus on which a bound man is positioned for beating while another man raises a long cane overhead.

Cleaning the Nostrils

Shima Takashi

An illustrated erotic scene depicts a woman being restrained while another person uses a small implement to clean or probe her nostrils.

Newly Designed Hand-and-Foot Stocks

Shima Takashi

An illustrated feature presents a newly designed apparatus that restrains a woman’s neck, hands, and feet in a seated position, with accompanying restraint implements displayed around her.

Gymnasium Storeroom

Kurokawa Fujio

A staged photograph shows a man bound against a wall in a gymnasium storeroom, blindfolded or gagged and subjected to immobilizing restraint.

Second Gravure: Rope, Chains, and Submission

A photographic bondage portfolio depicts a woman secured with rope and chains in varied kneeling, seated, folded, and floor-bound positions, emphasizing restraint, submission, and staged physical display.

Notes on Punishment and Execution in the Edo Period

Omodaka Shino

Omodaka Shino’s illustrated historical essay surveys Edo-period punishments and executions, explaining the procedures, implements, clothing, status distinctions, and treatment of condemned people while documenting execution scenes through drawings and staged visual examples.

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-First Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized erotic tale follows an abusive aristocratic couple whose sadistic punishments, captivity of women, and escalating murders create a sensational bondage narrative.

Breast Binding

Higashiyama Tarō

An illustrated striptease scenario depicts a performer being progressively restrained with ropes and subjected to staged handling, emphasizing breast binding as theatrical erotic spectacle.

Strange Psychology: Hypnosis

Minono Taeko

This article explains hypnosis as a psychological practice, describing induction techniques, suggestion, altered consciousness, and demonstrations of erotic control within intimate relationships.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized erotic captivity narrative depicting arrests, pursuits, imprisonment, chained prisoners, and repeated physical punishment and humiliation within coercive encounters involving police officers, men, and women.

A Visit to a Designer’s Studio

Harada Sunako

A reader-style personal confession describes a married woman’s dominant relationship with her husband, whom she treats as a lifelong slave through bondage, restraints, gagging, and disciplinary control.

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A fictional Sardinian adventure depicts a captive woman subjected to elaborate restraints, gagging, electric punishment, forced medical treatment, and eventual rescue amid confrontations between captors and rescuers.

A Dangerous Woman

Waka Yūko

A roundtable-style discussion brings together several participants to debate male cross-dressing, clothing and makeup, personal identity, social reactions, gender roles, and the pleasures and anxieties surrounding feminine presentation.

The Painting Atelier

Kimura Taishin

A long-form SM story follows Yōko and several coworkers on a mountain trip that turns into a cruel series of wagers, captivity, bindings, punishments, and humiliating sexualized abuse, with the shifting power relations among…

A View of Life and Death

Asō Tamotsu

This illustrated commentary reviews a November issue of the film magazine Kindai Eiga, discussing its gravure photographs, film stars, celebrity personalities, and the ways popular media presents their lifestyles and public images.

A Bond Formed by White Tabi

Kino Akemi

A first-person erotic memoir recounts how a woman’s fascination with white tabi leads to an intimate relationship with a man who shares and indulges her fetish, culminating in marriage and domestic life shaped by…

Senryū Notes

Saitō Ritsuo

This illustrated senryū commentary traces humorous and erotic references to the navel, abdomen, childbirth, bodily exposure, and related physical imagery across historical and modern verse.

December Issue Reading Impressions

Akuta Osamu

A reader’s extended response to the December issue reflects on its fiction and erotic writing, especially depictions of abnormal desire, beautiful women, fantasy, and the boundary between imaginative literature and lived experience.

The Slave’s Poem

Yamamoto Hazuo

A first-person erotic narrative follows a woman’s coercive submission to a female owner, emphasizing enslavement, discipline, restraint, and psychological surrender.

The Experience of Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A richly illustrated feature documents staged bondage-photography sessions, describing the models, rope arrangements, physical positions, emotional direction, and practical challenges of producing kinbaku images.

Women’s Army versus Women’s Army: A Secret Tale of Female Combat

Kaga Yōshi

This historical erotic fiction portrays rival female armies battling for control of Kasumigajo, combining armed combat, female command, eroticized violence, and dramatic defeat in a Sengoku-era setting; the installment also includes an accompanying erotic…

The Kasumigaura Women’s Battle

Yasuda Takao

A bondage enthusiast’s memoir discusses the uses and appeal of bands and rubber restraints before shifting into an illustrated historical erotic narrative of women’s conflict, capture, and violent ordeal at Kasumigaura.

Memoir of a Badminton Match

Manabe Masuo

This essay presents an elaborate method for imaginatively reading erotic punishment illustrations, guiding readers through scenes of female restraint, humiliation, bodily exposure, and forced bodily functions; the accompanying pages also advertise and depict staged…

Reader Communications

A reader-mail section compiling personal letters, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographic features, requests for correspondence and meetings, and notices about reader clubs, back issues, and mail-order materials. The correspondence also reflects readers’…

First Gravure: Bondage and Suspension Studies

A photographic portfolio documents women bound with rope in varied floor, seated, and suspended positions, emphasizing elaborate knots, bodily restriction, and staged bondage tableaux.

Forced to Drink Salt Water

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a restrained woman being compelled to drink salt water, presenting forced ingestion as a scene of coercive punishment.

Commodities Displayed Before a Customer

Claude Koga

Illustrations portray women bound and arranged as displayed “merchandise” for customers, using a shop or exhibition metaphor to frame bondage, inspection, and sexual objectification.

The Prison Bride

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Prison Bride” depicts a woman reclining in a prison-like setting while bound with rope, presenting captivity as a staged visual fantasy.

Prison at the Bottom of the Earth

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “Prison at the Bottom of the Earth” shows a woman restrained by ropes against the walls of an underground cell, emphasizing confinement and helplessness.

The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop” portrays a female outlaw in a dramatic rooftop scene with a sword and a restrained male figure, combining criminal melodrama, erotic staging, and…

The Troupe Leader’s Real-Blade Disembowelment on Stage

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration depicts a female troupe leader performing a staged real-blade disembowelment on a theater set, combining theatrical spectacle with violent fantasy.

The Terror of Wild Dogs Closing In

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration shows a gagged woman restrained on the floor while wild dogs approach, framing captivity and animal threat as a scene of terror.

Second Gravure: Rope, Gag, Foot, and Ritual Studies

A photographic gravure portfolio presents staged bondage studies featuring rope restraint, gagging, blindfolding, bound poses, foot-focused imagery, and ritualized dominance.

A Trial Discussion of M and S

Shirakawa Yukio

An essay examines the psychological, ethical, and social meanings of masochism and sadism, contrasting pathological cruelty with the pursuit of pleasure, love, freedom, and self-realization in postwar society.

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Second Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This serialized SM tale follows a married couple and their associates through escalating episodes of surveillance, coercion, rope restraint, physical punishment, medicalized experimentation, and sadomasochistic role play.

Film Correspondence: The Burning and Crucifixion of Wakao in The First Emperor

Higashiyama Tarō

A film correspondence piece discusses the staging and erotic impact of Wakao’s binding, crucifixion, and burning in The First Emperor, treating the scene as a striking depiction of historical punishment and visualized suffering.

Birth of the Women’s Sumo Association

Okamoto Yoshio

A reportage-style account of the founding and first meeting of a women’s sumo association, describing its rules, recruitment, organizers, participants, demonstrations, and bouts in an atmosphere that combines athletic spectacle with eroticized observation.

Confessions of a Rubber Maniac: Rubber-Chair Play

Tsuzawa Akiko

A first-person confession by a rubber fetishist describing the design and use of a rubber chair, related rubber garments and cushions, and the tactile, sensory, and erotic pleasures associated with the material.

Gallstone Reflections

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay on navel dirt and omphaloliths that combines medical and anatomical explanation with folklore, wordplay, hygiene advice, fetishistic associations, and personal anecdotes about the navel as an eroticized body part.

A Voyeur’s Almanac

Nagata Toshio

An autobiographical series of recollections about voyeuristic encounters from childhood through adulthood, including peeping at women bathing, dressing, and undergoing medical examinations, alongside reflections on visual fascination, erotic memory, and postwar social life.

Observations on Female Torture: High-Pressure Air Enema and Abdominal Cutting

Ōgita Toshio

A historical erotic tale set amid the fall of the shogunate, in which a geisha and a fugitive samurai confront pursuit, loyalty, suicide, and the ritualized cutting of the woman’s abdomen, accompanied by an…

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM novel follows a female narrator and a female slave through escapes, recaptures, prison confinement, interrogation, punishment, and eventual separation, combining melodramatic crime plotting with scenes of bondage and humiliation.

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A serialized adventure narrative recounts an expedition into Sardinia, portrayed as a slave state where captured women endure restraint, punishment, medicalized cruelty, and forced labor before the protagonists attempt to escape.

Enchanted by Neru’s Discipline

Koshino Nobutoshi

A first-person confession describes the author’s longstanding erotic fascination with women’s buttocks and waists, especially as revealed through clothing, and recounts voyeuristic observation, memories, and personal encounters shaped by that fetish.

The Mystery of the Privy Fly

Masayume Hirōmasa

This strange medical-gothic tale follows a patient whose intense fear of the privy fly develops into bizarre bodily symptoms, hallucinations, and a mysterious illness that doctors struggle to explain.

Ideas for Revolutionary Restraint Devices

Yuki Shun’itsu

An instructional essay proposes innovative leather restraint devices and explains their construction, adjustment, and use in various bondage scenarios, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

Two Pregnant Women

Senuma Shirō

A dialogue and accompanying erotic scenarios focus on pregnant women, marital sexual situations, restraint, and enema-related play, blending conversational narration with fetishistic fantasy.

The Tale of Mrs. Sekiya

Hanada Ichirō

This reflective essay praises and recollects Mrs. Sekiya as a memorable figure in postwar SM culture, discussing her photographic and literary representations alongside an erotic illustration of a woman made a sacrificial victim.

Bound with Her Hands Behind Her Back on Television

Tamura Kiyohiko

A reportage piece examines a televised NHK drama scene in which actress Kimiko Fukuda is restrained with her hands behind her back, discussing the staging, rope work, costume, posture, and visual effect of the…

The Devil’s Lips

Tanuma Toshio

This serialized SM fiction follows the narrator’s fixation on Akemi, whose beauty, physical strength, cruel temperament, and enjoyment of humiliating and physically tormenting others shape a series of sadistic erotic encounters.