Latest Archive Additions
The newest magazine issues added to the Kinbaku Today research archive, listed by the date they became available here rather than by their original publication date.
Kitan Club, August 1952
Kitan Club’s August 1952 issue is a densely illustrated postwar sex-and-customs magazine combining historical essays, erotic fiction, personal confessions, social reportage, popular sexology, literary commentary, correspondence, puzzles, and sensational visual material. Its editorial identity…
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S&M Sniper, November 2008
S&M Sniper No. 351 is a large, visually saturated Japanese SM and fetish magazine organized around photographic portfolios, scene reports, erotic fiction, video criticism, reader contributions, advice, event information, and extensive commercial promotion. Its…
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SM Collector Vol. 4, October 2014
SM Collector Vol. 4 is a Japanese special issue devoted to the commercial, photographic, and performative culture of bondage and sadomasochism. Identified in the colophon as an October 2014 supplement, it combines gravure photography,…
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Kitan Club, January 1958
Kitan Club’s January 1958 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine combining bondage imagery, masochist writing, cinema culture, historical anecdote, fiction, reader correspondence, and commercial photographic circulation. Its opening establishes a participatory…
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Kitan Club, August–September 1962
This August–September 1962 combined issue of Kitan Club is a large, visually dense specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage photography, fetish illustration, personal confession, serialized fiction, reader correspondence, and mail-order publishing. Its opening pages…
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Kitan Club, February 1974
Kitan Club’s February 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated Japanese SM and fetish magazine combining staged photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, practical bondage instruction, criticism, reader correspondence, community notices, and extensive mail-order catalogs.…
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Kitan Club, January 1974
Kitan Club’s January 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage, sadomasochism, fetish practices, personal testimony, serialized fiction, and reader participation. Its opening pages move from submission notices and…
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Uramado, December 1964
Uramado’s December 1964 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM and popular-culture magazine combining serialized fiction, literary criticism, erotic photography, film commentary, reader correspondence, publishing notices, and extensive commercial back matter. Its editorial identity…
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Kitan Club, March 1974
Kitan Club’s March 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM magazine organized around bondage photography, erotic reportage, serialized fiction, personal confession, critical commentary, and reader communication. Its opening pages establish the publication’s commercial…
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Kitan Club, April 1974
Kitan Club’s April 1974 issue presents itself as a documentary magazine of sexual customs, combining extensive staged bondage photography with reportage, confessional writing, serialized fiction, critical commentary, reader correspondence, and submission notices. The opening…
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Kitan Club: May Issue
The May 1974 issue of Kitan Club is a dense specialist publication devoted to Japanese SM culture, fetishism, bondage, sexual confession, erotic fiction, and the visual representation of domination. Its formal contents pages organize…
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Kitan Club July 1952: The Age of Female Domination
The July 1952 issue of Kitan Club is a densely illustrated popular sexological and sensational magazine organized around the special feature 女天下時代, or The Age of Female Domination. Its editorial world repeatedly reverses conventional…
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War and Sexual Desire Special Issue
The June 1952 issue of Kitan Club is organized as a special issue on war and sexual desire, combining sensational historical writing, erotic fiction, memoir-like testimony, sexual commentary, illustration, and photography. Its opening pages…
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Kitan Club, June 1974
The June 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large photographic opening, first-person SM testimony, reader-derived material, serialized erotic fiction, illustrated fantasy, marital case studies, and reports connected with organized SM circles. Its…
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Kitan Club, July 1974
The July 1974 issue of Kitan Club is organized around an unusually large body of bondage photography followed by reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader testimony, illustrated essays, and accounts of contemporary SM practice.…
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March 1962
The March 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication organized around four distinct black-and-white bondage portfolios. Its editorial identity is almost entirely visual: there are no substantial prose articles, fiction, correspondence columns,…
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February 1962
The February 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged bondage imagery. Rather than following the article-heavy structure of a conventional magazine issue, it is organized as a…
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Kitan Club, August 1974
The August 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive photographic opening with first-person reports, confessions, serialized fiction, essays, and illustrated erotic narratives. Its front matter establishes the issue's visual emphasis through a…
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May 1959
The May 1959 issue of Uramado is a large, visually varied publication combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical narratives, sensational crime and occult stories, essays, reader-oriented material, and an extensive special feature titled A…
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May 1962
This May 1962 Uramado material is an eight-page black-and-white photographic portfolio titled 美貌のいけにえ, translated here as Sacrifice of Beauty. Rather than presenting the mixture of fiction, essays, correspondence, and editorial matter found in a…
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