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A chronology of people, publications, images, ideas, and practices documented in the Japanese SM Magazine Archive.

Dates and appearances describe material currently documented in the archive. They should not be read as claims of absolute historical first occurrence.

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5,573 archive events + 2 curated milestones
1953
December
Historical Milestone Confirmed

The Bound Body Becomes a Photographic Study

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

The January 1953 issue of Kitan Club presents the bound female body explicitly as a subject for photographic study. Rather than functioning only as an element within narrative or punishment imagery, binding becomes part…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–135

My Record (僕の記録)

Kuroi Chinpei

A first-person record presents personal experience and sexual self-observation in confessional form, documenting unconventional desire through individual testimony.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–141

A Boy's Love (少年の恋)

Morita Yūji

A literary piece centers on youthful love and emotional attachment, treating formative affection and longing as a subject of personal and psychological reflection.

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January
Magazine Issue KK Correspondence

February 1953

KK Correspondence No. 5 continues the newsletter's monthly role as a communication network for readers whose interests are difficult to express publicly. The opening page contains letters about group meetings, address exchange, the publication…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

February 1953

The February 1953 issue of Kitan Club combines staged bondage photography, erotic illustration, serialized fiction, fetish and sexological essays, queer history, prison and execution narratives, material framed as confession, translated Western case literature, and reader-oriented…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

A Woman Driven Mad by Rope

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A staged photographic narrative follows a jealous young man who abducts, gags, and binds a woman believed to be leaving him for another man, subjecting her to violent punishment before wavering between resentment and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–26

Demon Flower

Hamura Kyōko

An erotic psychological tale follows a married woman whose affair with the narrator develops into an obsessive and increasingly violent relationship. Their encounters, her pregnancy and domestic unhappiness, and the narrator’s fantasies of bondage…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–28

Letter from a Madman

Hamura Hiroshi

A distressed reader describes being sexually humiliated and exploited in domestic and medical-service settings, seeking guidance about his troubling desires and circumstances. The editorial response treats the letter as a problem of abnormal sexuality…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29–34

Scattering Young Leaves

Tozaki Heima

An illustrated historical erotic tale follows two beautiful male youths, Ukyo and Uname, whose mutual love develops within a samurai household but is obstructed by family obligations and social expectations. Their attempt to preserve…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 35–44

Love Slave, Part Two

Kitō Kōichirō

Part two of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly coercive and humiliating sexual encounters with Harumi and Ōtsuki, including beach sand play, physical domination, and voyeuristic games. The later chapters broaden…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 45–52

Questions and Answers on Perversion, Part Three

Ukiya Takasaburō

The third installment of a conversational sexology feature examines changing sexual attitudes through an extended discussion among the participants. It considers erotic performance and popular entertainment, including stage and film depictions, audience reactions, fetishistic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53–58

The Nun’s Awakening

Hisamatsu Shunsuke

A historical erotic fiction set around a Buddhist convent near Nara during the Great Buddha’s eye-opening ceremony. The story follows Kiku’s life among nuns, her encounters with men, and her gradual emotional and sexual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 59–64

Phosphorescence

Sasada Ei

A psychologically charged modern fiction centered on Yoshiko, a young woman working in an urban entertainment house and exposed to successive male customers, exploitation, illness, and coercive desires. Phosphorescent light and mirror imagery underscore…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 65–74

Flower Light

An erotic psychological fiction follows Yoshiko through coercive bondage, sexual violence, and an unsettling transformation of fear into confused desire. The narrative moves between abusive encounters, dreamlike recollections, and domestic scenes, emphasizing the lasting…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 75–76

Urine Worship and Totemism

Mise Seirō

Mise Seirō surveys the religious and folkloric veneration of urine, comparing sacred, medicinal, magical, and ritual uses across cultures including India, Egypt, and Japan. The essay relates urine worship to totemism, purification, fertility beliefs,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 77–78

In Reply to Kuroi Chinpei

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu responds to Kuroi Chinpei’s criticism of his paintings, defending artistic freedom and arguing that judgments of beauty should not be confined to conventional Japanese styles or contemporary taste. He discusses Japanese hairstyles,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–82

A History of Religious Inquisition

Urushijima Michihei

Urushijima Michihei surveys the historical relationship between virgin worship, priestesses, sacred sexuality, and religious prostitution across ancient and modern cultures. Using examples associated with Mary, Isis, Vestal Virgins, and other religious traditions, the article…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 83–89

A Female Prisoner’s Prison Diary

Komachi Ukon

A first-person prison memoir recounting a woman’s incarceration, forced labor, hunger, illness, bodily punishments, strict surveillance, and degrading living conditions. The account also describes prison routines, fellow inmates, guards, and the psychological effects of…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–94

The Torments of Sadism

Moriyama Miyaka

An essay on sadism that combines personal erotic narrative with reflections on sexual desire, beauty, art, appetite, and cultural life. It presents scenes of consensual erotic domination, restraint, humiliation, and role-play before arguing that…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95–100

Glass Toilet

Hano Mayumi

An erotic-grotesque first-person fantasy follows a man whose encounter with a mysterious woman at a railway-station lavatory develops into an obsessive journey through voyeurism, bodily functions, and dreamlike distortions of reality. The recurring glass…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 101–104

The Pleasure of Being Oppressed

Hayashida Sumiko

A first-person narrative combines postwar rural life and grassroots political organizing with an increasingly explicit account of male sexual submission. The narrator describes ideological disputes, village elections, marriage, and escalating humiliation, bondage, and physical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 105–110

History of Christian Persecution

Urushijima Michihei

A historical account of Christian persecution, emphasizing the harsh suppression of missionaries and converts through imprisonment, torture, execution, and forced renunciation. The narrative describes major episodes of persecution in Japan, including mass punishment and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 109

Film and Sadism

Yoshii Kagehiro

An essay examining how cinema produces sadistic and erotic fascination through images of female vulnerability, restraint, bodily exposure, and physical punishment. It discusses the visual and dramatic techniques used in films to create sensual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 111–116

Strange Tales of Executions

Mogi Yoshihisa

An illustrated historical essay surveys capital punishment in Japan, contrasting Edo-period executions with modern procedures and discussing prison routines, death-row inmates, execution methods, and the legal and social rationale for the death penalty. It…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 117–122

A Warrior’s Sorrowful History

Kumoi Kawayō

A serialized wartime narrative follows Japanese military personnel during an overseas operation, focusing on their movement through a South Pacific setting, military hierarchy, encounters with local women, and the disquieting emotional and erotic tensions…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123–124

The Torn Diary

Kawabata Tana

A reflective diary narrative about revisiting and tearing up an old diary, prompted by embarrassment, painful memories, and the wish to distance oneself from an earlier self. Subsequent entries recount ordinary domestic routines, travel,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 125–126

Various Types of Woman-Haters

Hayashida Sumiko

An essay categorizes different kinds of women-haters, attributing them variously to sexual indifference, excessive sexual preoccupation, personal circumstances, intellectual theories, self-conceit, and related psychological or social causes. It supports the classifications with examples from…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 127–136

The Women of Ryūkyū

Kinoshita Hakuran

A melodramatic narrative set around the Coral bar follows Okinawan-born women, their romantic entanglements, jealousy, violence, and eventual personal reckonings. Alongside the fiction, it presents detailed descriptions of Ryukyuan women’s beauty, clothing, social experience,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 137–142

Eternal Male Beauty and Female Beauty

Matoba Michi

Matoba Michi’s essay considers male and female beauty through the relationship between natural bodily form, physical maturation, heredity, health, and cultural ideals. It contrasts bodily and spiritual beauty, discusses historical and social variation in…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 143–154

Fire, Part Two

Matsui Kōko

The second installment of Matsui Kōko’s erotic fiction follows Sayuri, a married woman whose recollections of childhood sexual games and bondage merge with her troubled adult desires. Encounters involving her husband, male acquaintances, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 155–158

Alexina’s Diary

Torigami Ryōichi

A humorous fictional tale follows Nakai, an enthusiastic radio-quiz participant whose prize from an Oriental Spinning quiz leads to a chain of awkward romantic misunderstandings with Michiko. The melodramatic confusion eventually resolves in domestic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 159–173

The Island That Opens at Night

Okada Satsuko

An erotic literary narrative centered on Eikai, an older, cultured man, and his encounters with younger men in cafés, homes, and urban nightlife. Through shifting conversations and relationships, the story explores same-sex desire, social…

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February
Magazine Issue KK Correspondence

March 1953

The sixth issue of KK Communication is a compact eight-page newsletter that reveals the social machinery developing around Kitan Club in early 1953. Unlike the parent magazine’s long fiction, elaborate illustrations, and photographic portfolios,…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

March 1953

The March 1953 issue of Kitan Club combines historical punishment imagery, erotic illustration, serialized confession, prison narrative, essays on sadism and homosexuality, military reminiscence, fetish psychology, queer fiction, reader-oriented commentary, and several long literary…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

A Comparison of Eastern and Western Torture

A historical illustrated comparison of Eastern and Western torture, focusing on four interrogation punishments used under the Edo shogunate: beating, stone-holding, water torture, and suspension. The text describes the procedures, equipment, bodily effects, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–26

The Essence of Sadism

Azuma Minoru

An extended essay examining sadism as a psychological and erotic disposition, contrasting bodily pain, humiliation, fear, and domination with masochistic pleasure. It discusses marital and domestic scenarios, restraint devices, whipping, blindfolding, and other methods…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–36

Love Slave, Part Three

Kitō Kōichirō

The third installment of Kito Koichiro’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly obsessive relationship with Harumi, a married woman whose confidence and sexual authority reshape his domestic life. Their affair develops through jealousy,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 37–48

Inside the Prison Bars

Kosaka Tamie

Kosaka Tamie’s extended account of life inside a women’s prison describes inmate hierarchies, surveillance, routines, and disciplinary practices. It focuses especially on corporal punishment, forced undressing and exposure, humiliation, sexualized abuse, and the harsh…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 49–53

Meiji Historical Tales

Nakayasu Kōdō

A historical survey of Japanese seppuku, explaining its ritual forms, techniques, and changing social meaning through anecdotes from the samurai era. The article recounts cases involving battlefield defeat, loyalty, punishment, family duty, and demonstrations…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–62

The Mystery of Male Homosexual Love

Yanagida Kōgen

A historical and sexological survey of male same-sex desire, tracing terminology, changing social attitudes, literary and medical discussions, and examples from Japan and other cultures. The article also considers related concepts such as boy-love,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 63–64

Erotic Correspondence

Takano Sumiko

A reader-correspondence feature presenting erotic letters and requests concerning imagined encounters, erotic illustrations, and bondage scenarios. The exchange demonstrates the magazine’s participatory community function and readers’ use of correspondence to seek erotic material and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 65–74

Sadistic Tendencies in Literature and History

Nibiyama Hitoshi

An essay tracing sadistic impulses through Western and Japanese literature, theater, legend, and history. It discusses figures and episodes including Salome, Judith, Japanese ghost and demon tales, violent historical rulers, executions, cruelty, and the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 75–84

Pain and Pleasure

Hatano Shin

An extended essay examines the psychological and physiological relationship between pain and pleasure, contrasting sadistic and masochistic responses and discussing how stimulation, restraint, punishment, religious ritual, hypnosis, and social conditioning can transform suffering into…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 85–86

A Dream of the Seventh Heaven

Umei Shinji

A reader-style appreciation of selected works from recent Kitan Club issues reflects on erotic images, films, illustrations, and imagined scenes involving female power, bodily display, punishment, and fetishistic suggestion. The writer discusses how unusual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87–88

An Answer to Itō Seiu

Kuroi Chinpei

Kuroi Chinpei replies to Itō Seiu in a debate over erotic art, beauty, and the representation of the nude. He defends the artistic and emotional value of frank depictions of the body while criticizing…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 89–96

My Memories of Military Service

Morihara Taichi

Morihara Taichi recounts memories of his military-service years, including barracks life, fellow soldiers, discipline, training, wartime routines, and postwar recollections. The memoir combines humorous anecdotes with reflections on military masculinity, hardship, hierarchy, and changing…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 97–99

Miscellaneous Thoughts on the Grotesque

Yoshino Yōzaburō

An essay on grotesque erotic experience, illustrated through a disturbing first-person account of workplace relations, sexual manipulation, and a woman’s control over men. The narrative emphasizes fetishistic attention to the female body, especially the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–101

The Value of Erotic Curiosity

Tsunoda Heihachi

A concluding reflection on the destructive value and consequences of erotic curiosity, in which the narrator recognizes that his desires led him to exploit and harm a woman. The piece links sexual obsession with…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–103

Fantasy of a White Toilet

Wada Natsue

The supplied pages present an illustrated-text feature on actresses portrayed bound in Japanese films and stage productions. It surveys named performers and describes scenes involving rope restraint, suspension, gagging, and other forms of staged…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–106

Reading Itō Seiu’s Answer

Takano Sumiko

The continuation catalogs additional actresses and dramatic scenarios involving capture, tying, punishment, and forced posing, emphasizing the visual and theatrical conventions of bound-woman scenes. The feature concludes with further examples drawn from period cinema…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 107–110

The Torn Diary

Kawabata Tanako

A diary-style erotic narrative recounting an encounter that develops into forced undressing, immobilization, pain, and humiliation between partners. The first-person account emphasizes conflicted desire, vulnerability, and the psychological tension of restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 111–114

Unusual Psychology Centered on the Eyes

Nanajō Miki

An illustrated physiognomic essay claiming that the shape, color, position, and movement of the eyes and eyebrows reveal sexual temperament, emotional character, and relationship tendencies. It presents eye diagrams and categories as a form…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–120

Thoughts on Double Suicide

Sasajima Seiko

An essay reflecting on double suicide through romantic relationships, omens, bodily signs, and the social pressures surrounding illicit or desperate love. It combines observations on sexual psychology with commentary on changing modern attitudes toward…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 121–124

Bound Actresses

Niuoka Kinkichi

A historical supernatural erotic tale set amid warfare and rural religious life, in which a woman associated with theft and sexual transgression is captured, bound, abused, and ultimately subjected to grotesque postmortem transformations. The…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 125–134

A Woman’s Confession

Okada Satsuko

A first-person account follows a rural woman working in Tokyo who is drawn into a lodging house and subjected to escalating coercion by a man and woman. Her ordeal includes rope binding, gagging, immobilization,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135–142

The Lamp of Adonis

Sasada Ei

A tragic literary narrative about Shinkichi, an older man who finds intense companionship and erotic attachment with the younger Matsuo, then suffers anxiety and heartbreak when their relationship is threatened by separation and social…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 143–148

A Conversation Between Two Men

Kameoka Kyōko

A dialogue presents the aftermath of a married woman’s earlier confession of infidelity. The speakers discuss her unhappy marriage, emotional and sexual attachment to another person, possible divorce, and the guilt, secrecy, and uncertainty…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 149–155

The Sexual Life of a Spy

Arima Masaaki

A historical-sexological essay on the sexual customs of Romani communities, discussing courtship, marriage, gender roles, sexual behavior, clothing, adornment, color symbolism, erotic beliefs, and magical practices. The account reflects the period’s comparative and often…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–158

A Tragic Comedy

Sasada Ei

An illustrated comic dialogue depicting an escalating domestic quarrel involving accusations, deception, money, and strained marital or household relationships. Its eroticized humor is built around sexual jealousy, social embarrassment, and the breakdown of trust…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 159–172

Fire, Part Three

Matsui Kōko

The third installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple whose encounter with an intimidating man develops into an elaborate scenario of restraint, humiliation, jealousy, and coercive sexual fantasy. The narrative…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 173

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A publisher’s notices page solicits unpublished writing, illustrations, photographs, cartoons, fiction, and other contributions, while outlining editorial guidelines and payment practices. It also announces back issues, subscriptions, direct reader orders, publisher information, and a…

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March
Magazine Issue KK Correspondence

April 1953

The seventh issue of KK Communication continues the newsletter’s transformation of Kitan Club readership into an active erotic public. Its eight densely packed pages combine letters, editorial replies, serialized fiction, criticism, practical discussion of…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

April 1953

The April 1953 issue of Kitan Club brings rope more decisively into the realms of technique, bodily analysis, staged photography, domestic fantasy, and reader discussion. Historical punishment and coercive fiction remain prominent, but the…

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Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Becomes a Subject of Comparative Visual Study

The April 1953 issue of Kitan Club opens with an extended photographic study of tight binding with the hands behind and the arms raised. The sequence invites comparison between rope positions and their effects…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–17

Confessions of a Reformed Delinquent

Goku Osamu

A first-person confession by a former delinquent describing detention in a juvenile correctional institution, including institutional discipline, confinement, punishment, and degrading treatment. The narrative reflects on the physical and psychological effects of custodial correction…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18–20

How to Obtain the Wine of the Gods

Numa Shōzō

A first-person erotic account presents the pursuit and consumption of a woman’s urine as the “wine of the gods.” Framed partly as practical advice, it describes arranging a toilet and collecting vessel to obtain…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21–24

Longing for the Obese Body

Asō Tsuwako

An autobiographical confession traces the author’s longstanding attraction to obese bodies, recalling childhood impressions, encounters with nude male bodies, and later fantasies involving exhibitionism, medical observation, and masochistic exposure. The piece presents this fixation…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25–27

Riding Clothes, High Boots, and the Whip

Morimoto Aizō

A first-person erotic account of a fascination with riding clothes, high boots, and whips, developing through encounters with women and riding-related scenes into episodes of bondage, whipping, and female control. The narrative emphasizes the…

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