The Husband of Twins

Hiki Kyōichirō

A fictional account of a man who becomes the husband and subordinate plaything of wealthy twin sisters. Across the episode, the sisters subject him to humiliating, coercive games involving nudity, restraint, animal imagery, and…

How to Construct a Punishment-Ground Stage

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu provides practical guidance for constructing a theatrical punishment-ground set, describing stage layouts, scenic backdrops, props, restraints, and methods for creating convincing outdoor or indoor scenes. Illustrations demonstrate apparatus and arrangements for staged…

Readers’ Exchange

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters, personal disclosures, requests, advice, and introductions among readers interested in erotic and SM culture. The exchange also includes reader-submitted visual material and editorial responses, reinforcing the magazine’s role as…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Five

Numa Shōzō

A serialized masochist’s notebook combines discussion of staging and scenic design for erotic punishment scenes with fictionalized episodes of fetishistic and submissive desire. The narrative centers on foot and shoe fetishism, women’s control, humiliation,…

The Fall of Kita-no-shō Castle

Iwahori Hikaru

An illustrated historical-erotic narrative recounting the fall of Kita-no-shō Castle during the Sengoku period. It depicts the siege, defeat, deaths, escape attempts, and capture of women inside the castle, with captivity and coercive sexualized…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Three

translated by Samukawa Midori

The third installment of a translated erotic serial in which Alice is subjected to escalating restraint, display, sensory observation, and coerced sexual submission. The narrative emphasizes the voyeuristic staging of her body, physical helplessness,…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A notices and advertising page promoting forthcoming issues, soliciting manuscripts and club participation, and providing subscription, mail-order, and publication information for Kitan Club and related materials.

Tormented Soft Skin

A photographic feature portraying a woman restrained in a room in a series of staged rope-bondage tableaux, accompanied by prose emphasizing her beauty, vulnerability, resistance, and emotional distress. The images include suspension, binding, and…

Ways of Binding a Woman to a Pillar or Pole

An illustrated practical guide presents seven ways to bind a woman to a pillar or pole, showing different rope arrangements and restrained positions.

Covered in Sand

An erotic photographic feature depicts a nude woman lying partially covered in sand in an outdoor setting.

Until a Woman Is Bound

Muramura Takashi, Okada Shigeo

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating how to bind a woman with rope, including wrist restraints, cross-body wrapping, seated and reclining positions, and methods for tightening and securing the finished arrangement.

Spider

Ōtsuki Daizō

An illustrated melodramatic bondage story in which Kimiko is abducted and restrained by male antagonists, while other characters plot, threaten, and attempt to control her. The narrative combines captivity, coercion, jealousy, money, and rescue…

Torture Chamber

Gyōda Kazuko, Tsuzuki Shigeru

An illustrated captivity-and-torture narrative in which Kaoriko is restrained by several men, subjected to coercive handling and humiliation, and pushed through escalating scenes of physical and psychological distress.

Rope and Tattoo

Ōba Reiko

An illustrated feature on rope bondage and tattoo aesthetics, depicting women restrained in staged scenes with elaborate bindings, exposed bodies, and decorative tattoo motifs. The imagery emphasizes the visual and eroticized presentation of restraint…

Bound in the Ravine

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope in a rocky ravine and stream, using outdoor terrain and fixed positions as part of the staged restraint scenes. The accompanying text presents the images…

My Five Punishments

Sugiura Nijiko

An illustrated portfolio presents five staged punishment scenes involving women tied with rope in settings including a piano, a railing, and other interior or architectural spaces. The drawings emphasize immobilization, exposure, and punitive bondage…

The Cross-Dressed Man

Hinatsu Yukio

This fiction follows Chikichi, a lonely young office worker who secretly transforms himself with women’s clothing, a wig, and makeup, then ventures into public urban spaces as a woman. His encounters in theaters, nightlife…

Fantasy of the Snake Man

Araki Tamotsu, Takizawa Reiko

An illustrated erotic fantasy follows a physically unimpressive man who abducts a young woman to an abandoned mountain temple, where he imagines dominating and abusing her. The accompanying drawings portray the snake-man motif and…

Abnormal Group: Female Seppuku Fantasy

A photographic feature presents staged images of a woman enacting a seppuku fantasy, with accompanying text explaining that the scenes are simulated and discussing safer methods for future photography. The sequence combines eroticized execution…

Male Artistic Nudes and Male Nude Studies

A photographic feature presenting posed male nude studies, including studio-style artistic portraits and images of a man shown in a restrained pose. The emphasis is on male form, pose, and eroticized visual presentation.

Tight-Binding Photo Parade, Part Five

The fifth installment of a photographic parade of male bondage scenes, arranged as a large grid of sequential images. The photographs show nude or lightly clothed men in varied rope-bound, immobilized, and sometimes outdoor…

Confession of a Self-Tormenting Demon

Kawamada Shirō

A first-person confession describing an intense fixation on anal sexuality, humiliation, and submission to women. The narrator recounts and imagines elaborate abusive, restrictive, and fetishistic scenarios, including chained or otherwise constrained male bodies.

Interrogation in the Criminal Investigation Room: Women’s Section

Mitani Yōsuke

A serialized investigative account of women questioned in Japan’s criminal investigation offices, describing surveillance, arrests, prolonged interrogation, physical abuse, intimidation, and coercive attempts to obtain information or confessions. The cases focus especially on women…

A Perverse Erotic Letter

Mitomi Senshō

An erotic letter addressed to a woman, combining romantic address with highly transgressive fantasies of sexual domination, anal penetration, bodily exposure, restraint, and pain. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the text’s staged, sensational imagery of…

Nostalgia for White

Kawamura Tetsuo

An autobiographical essay tracing the author’s lifelong fascination with the whiteness of women’s skin, from childhood impressions and erotic fantasies to adult encounters, marriage, and domestic sexual life. The narrative links this fetishized ideal…

The Sorrowful Cry of Pleasure

Aoyama Izumi

An adult fictional confession narrated by a wife describes her troubled marriage to a domineering husband whose coercive sexual games involve bondage, blindfolding, restraint, beating, and other forms of sadistic control. Her fear, humiliation,…

Bewitched by Rope

Tokiyama Kayoko

A first-person erotic memoir about becoming obsessed with rope bondage, describing the discovery, practice, and intensification of tying and restraint in domestic and workplace-related settings. The account also refers to bondage imagery and the…

Dream Demon

Matsui Kōko

An illustrated erotic fiction narrative in which Shōjirō and Natsuko become caught in escalating episodes of sexual pursuit, restraint, and domination. The story blends remembered encounters and dreamlike fantasy with jealousy, bodily vulnerability, and…

Spiders and Butterflies, Part Two

Hida Kinryōji

The second installment of a serialized erotic novel follows a film-studio scenario in which performers and assistants manipulate a woman through staged bondage, restraint devices, forced poses, and escalating humiliating performances. The narrative combines…

Abnormal Fairy

Mishima Toshio

A short sexological essay considers “abnormal” sexual behavior through the relationship between bodily impulses, mental life, desire, shame, and gendered expectations. It presents sexual psychology as a way of interpreting unusual erotic interests and…

Mistaken for a Writer of Torment

Matsui Kayoko

In this humorous autobiographical essay, Matsui Kayoko describes repeatedly being mistaken for an expert or author of sadistic bondage because of her association with erotic magazines. The account develops through conversations, awkward social encounters,…

Rope and Corset

Akimoto Tsutomu

An illustrated erotic essay examines a young student’s fascination with nude models and paintings, linking artistic representation, voyeurism, and unconventional sexual desire. The accompanying artwork depicts a nude woman and an observing man in…

Pale Eroticism

Komai Noboru

The article continues its discussion of nude models, artists, and erotic spectacle before shifting into a serialized bondage narrative, “Slave Festival.” The fiction depicts women being stripped, restrained, displayed, and subjected to coercive sexualized…

Record of Abuse: Notes of a Repatriate from Communist China, Part One

Maejima Yoshio

A first-person account by a Japanese repatriate describing detention in Communist China, interrogation, forced labor, beatings, humiliation, and other forms of mistreatment. The piece is presented as sensational documentary testimony about captivity and political…

The Allure of Women’s Feet

Kanemaru Sōkichi

An illustrated essay on the erotic fascination with women’s feet, combining personal anecdotes, imagined scenes, and observations about stockings, bare feet, and men’s responses to foot imagery. It treats the foot as a fetishized…

The Lady Who Wants to Be Naked

Takeno Tōsuke

A sensational erotic fiction piece about a woman driven by an intense desire for nudity and sexual excitement. Through encounters with several men, the narrative depicts escalating exhibitionism, seduction, and unconventional group encounters, accompanied…

The Life of Kinezumi Kichigorō

Midori Takehiko; illustrations by Sanjō Haruhiko

A sensational historical account of Kinezumi Kichigorō, an Edo-period thief whose capture is followed by repeated interrogations and severe corporal punishment. The narrative emphasizes his extraordinary physical endurance, the authorities’ escalating methods, and his…

Slave Festival, Part Two

D. B. Anrera; translated by Miyake Ichirō

A serialized erotic-fiction installment depicting a “slave festival” in which women are restrained, stripped, humiliated, and sexually abused by groups of men. The narrative shifts among recollection, staged bondage scenes, and voyeuristic descriptions of…

Methods for Constructing a Torment Stage, Part Two

Itō Seiu

A practical guide to constructing and presenting a “torment stage” for theatrical or photographic scenes. It discusses stage dimensions, backdrops, props, lighting, color, paint, and scenic composition, with diagrams showing how to create a…

Gamiami’s Bedroom

Kunikata Mariko

An illustrated popular-fiction episode set in the world of naniwabushi performers, following O-Chiyo and other entertainers through professional rivalries, romantic entanglements, illness, violence, and police investigation. The narrative combines backstage and itinerant performance culture…

Smoldering Fire, Part Eleven

Matsui Eiko; illustrations by Kurihara Shin

This installment of the serialized erotic fiction follows a tangled conflict involving jealousy, deception, photographs, money, and marital betrayal. The plot escalates into abduction, violent coercion, and elaborate rope restraint before the characters move…

Naniwa-bushi and Blood

Masaoka Iruru

An illustrated erotic-grotesque tale in which a narrator’s encounters with an alluring woman unfold through dreams, corpses, bloodshed, and uncanny transformations. The narrative links obsessive desire and violent fantasy with factory life, social unease,…

Dr. Kangyoku’s Sexuality Consultation

Jōshiki Sensei

A sexuality-consultation column answers a young female university student who is intensely attracted to women’s bodily scent and worries that the preoccupation is disrupting her studies and relationships. The response frames the interest as…

From the Notebook of a Certain Sexual Masochist, Part Two

Amadoro Seiei

A first-person masochistic memoir describing participation in a secret club where leather-clad women and male attendants stage scenes of domination, humiliation, whipping, and forced submission. The episode emphasizes the narrator’s fascination with female authority,…

Amphibious Animal, Part Three: A Tale of Male Homosexuality

Oka Shinshirō; illustrations by Kiuchi Tsunekawa

A serialized epistolary tale centered on male homosexual desire, correspondence, fantasy, and encounters between men. Its letters and accompanying illustrations develop themes of same-sex attraction, erotic longing, secrecy, and emotionally charged relationships across changing…

Cruel Demon

Mimori Shirō

A sensational sexological and criminological essay examining sadism, masochism, sexual violence, and sexually motivated murder. It combines psychological interpretation with historical and contemporary case reports, including illustrated depictions of abusive and criminal encounters.

Cursed Rope

Tsujimura Takashi

Presented as a police statement concerning the death of Nishida Kotoe, this crime-centered narrative recounts a husband’s escalating rope bondage, humiliation, coercive sexual abuse, and sadistic violence against his wife, culminating in lethal injury.…

Reiko’s Twelve Months: Rain

Kita Reiko

A seasonal illustrated feature centered on Reiko and the motif of rain, presenting a romantic or atmospheric vignette within a twelve-month series.

The Endpoint of Sexual Abuse

Sakanoue Nobuo

A sensational pulp-horror narrative follows a physician whose fixation on a female patient develops into coercive sexual exploitation, sadistic bodily manipulation, and violent medical abuse. His attempt to reshape her into an imagined ideal…

The Traveling Actor of Ecstatic Cruelty

Nureki Chimuo; illustrations by Tsuzuki Hachiko

A serialized erotic narrative follows a traveling theatrical troupe whose performances and backstage life revolve around coercive bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexual domination of its actresses. The troupe’s increasingly elaborate staged scenes blur theatrical…

At the End of Sadism

Kurosu Yoshio

A psychological erotic fiction portraying a female beauty-salon worker whose fascination with women, particularly the beautiful Masako, develops into possessive and destructive obsession. The narrative combines salon life, intimate female relationships, sexual fantasy, jealousy,…

Torment in Modern Literature

Murata Seiichi

An essay examining representations of torment, cruelty, and eroticized suffering in modern literature. It surveys literary works and authors to consider how sadistic and masochistic impulses, desire, and psychological conflict appear in modern narrative.

Diary of Obsession

Kusaba Yōko

An illustrated historical essay examines sexual offenses involving Buddhist monks, nuns, temple women, and female attendants in the Edo period. Drawing on legal precedents and punishment records, it describes investigations, public exposure, confinement, flogging,…

Masochist and Sadist

Tomioka Haruo

A fictional narrative about a relationship structured by sadistic and masochistic desire, escalating physical control, humiliation, and coercive sexual encounters. The story is accompanied by erotic illustrations depicting the characters’ scenes of restraint and…

Female Criminal Punishment Scroll

Kikuyama Susumu

An illustrated case narrative portrays a male domestic worker subjected to degrading treatment and forced animal-like servitude by a female employer, including confinement in a doghouse. The concluding discussion considers male same-sex desire, effeminacy,…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Four

translated by Samukawa Midori

Part four of the serialized erotic narrative follows Alice as she is repeatedly tied to chairs and poles, gagged, exposed, and subjected to coercive sexual teasing and punishment by the male narrator. The installment…

Bestial Human

Miyauchi Misao

An essay examining the preferences of male homosexuals, including favored physical types, age differences, personal appearance, occupations, social status, and masculine or feminine traits. It combines contemporary social observation with historical examples and literary…

Love Slave, Part Eleven

Hōkizan; illustrations by Kanayama Kinshaku

The eleventh installment of a serialized erotic narrative follows a tense hospital-centered confrontation involving injured characters, nurses, deception, financial pressure, and escalating control. Its scenes of capture, binding, humiliation, and coercive sexual power are…

The Fault Line of Sodomy

Kayabiya Kazuhiko

An essay examining male same-sex desire and the boundaries by which sodomy or homosexuality was classified and understood. It considers sexual behavior, identity, and the social and psychological tensions surrounding non-normative male sexuality.

Women’s Trousers: A Final Answer

Azuma Shin

An essay presents a concluding discussion of women’s trousers, tracing their historical and social significance through changing fashions, military and occupational dress, and debates over gender roles. It argues that clothing reflects broader shifts…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A reader-correspondence feature presenting questions, personal accounts, and advisory exchanges concerning women’s intimate relationships and lesbian desire. The section also discusses erotic representation, bodily intimacy, romantic jealousy, and the community function of sharing experiences…

A Secret History of Beautiful Princesses

Kameoka Genichirō

A historical-style erotic narrative about a beautiful princess whose relationships with young men and warriors are framed through contrasting sadistic and masochistic desires. Set against warfare, siege, surrender, and ritualized violence, the story culminates…

The Closed Female Body

Toba Eiko

An erotic literary narrative about sexually charged encounters, bodily desire, and the gradual exposure of a woman’s concealed inner life. The story follows shifting relationships marked by secrecy, seduction, sexual experimentation, and transgressive or…

Balanced Pleasure

Nakagawa Ayako

A full-page erotic illustration by Nakagawa Ayako presents several nude figures bound with rope in an elaborate wooden-frame tableau. The staged composition emphasizes intertwined bodies, immobilization, and dramatic restraint.

A Grand Collection of Terrifying and Bizarre Pictures

A multi-page visual portfolio presenting terrifying, bizarre, and erotic illustrations in historical Japanese settings. The scenes depict women subjected to rope bondage, suspension, captivity, coercive handling, and fantastical or violent punishment, accompanied by captions…

Binding Methods Using Posts and Leverage

Itō Seiu; illustrations by Chikami Reiko

An illustrated instructional feature by Itō Seiu presenting multiple Japanese rope-binding methods that use posts, beams, and leverage to secure the body in varied positions. Captions explain the placement and tightening of ropes around…

The Twin Blades of the Rope

Yuki Aoi

An illustrated erotic narrative set in a traditional Japanese milieu depicts women subjected to elaborate rope bondage, including seated and suspended positions, alongside dialogue expressing jealousy, humiliation, and revenge. The feature presents restraint as…

A Certain Pose Produced by Tight Binding

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature showing a model placed in a tightly bound, folded seated pose, with rope arranged around the torso and legs. The single staged image emphasizes the visual form and bodily posture produced…

Illustrated Female-Prisoner Punishments

Tsuzuki Mineko

An illustrated feature presenting scenes of female prisoners subjected to various punishments and restraint arrangements, including public display, dragging, burning, and splitting or stretching forms of punishment. The accompanying prose frames these scenes through…

Whip

Shimizu Mitsue

A two-page illustrated feature centers on nude female figures posed with whips and related implements, using dramatic compositions to evoke eroticized punishment and fetish display. The emphasis is on stylized imagery rather than instructional…

Torment

Mitani Ichiba

An erotic illustrated torment scene depicts a woman struggling against restraint while a man responds with escalating sadistic excitement. The accompanying caption presents the encounter as a coercive fantasy centered on domination and suffering.

Three Expressions

composition by Itō Seiu; illustrations by Chikami Reiko

An illustrated feature titled “Three Expressions,” combining portraits of women’s faces with staged scenes of bondage, exposure, and severe punishment or death. The work emphasizes changing facial expressions within stylized erotic and punitive tableaux.

Three Flowers

Yoshida Taeko

This illustrated fiction presents scenes of jealous and coercive male domination: Yoshiko is bound and gagged while interrogated, while other women face captivity, sexual wagering, humiliation, and fear of being taken away. The accompanying…