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.
June 1953
The June 1953 issue of Yomikiri Romance is a broad popular-humor magazine built around sexual comedy, urban folklore, marriage anxieties, nightlife, voyeurism, bodily embarrassment, and the friction between older customs and postwar metropolitan life.…
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November 1956
The November 1956 issue of Uramado is a broad sensational magazine rather than a narrowly specialized SM publication. Crime reporting, mystery fiction, sexual customs, medicalized discussions of sexuality, foreign photographs, humor, historical tales, and…
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KK Correspondence, December 1952
This December 1952 issue of KK Correspondence is a compact four-page supplement to Kitan Club, Volume 6, Number 12. It functions less as an independent magazine than as a reader-community bulletin combining correspondence, serialized…
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Yomikiri Romance Special Extra: Etsugyaku Kōkotsu-zu
This January 1953 special extra edition of Yomikiri Romance is a single-purpose photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged images of women in bondage. Issued under the title Etsugyaku Kōkotsu-zu and supervised by Itō…
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August 1952
This special extra edition of Yomikiri Romance, titled 特写ヌード風俗アルバム (Special Photography: Nude Customs Album), is less a conventional magazine than an extended photographic portfolio. Across seventy-six pages, it presents staged bondage, captivity, disrobing, bridal-role…
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March 1977
The inaugural March 1977 issue of Sun & Moon introduces itself as a magazine “seeking love,” but its real editorial center is the lived practice of SM. Unlike the historical, literary, and pseudo-sexological mixture…
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July 1953
The July 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi shows the magazine operating as a broad laboratory of postwar erotic culture. Bondage and seme sit beside sexology, crime, confession, fetishism, homosexuality, prostitution, medicalized “perversion,” reader correspondence,…
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October 1953
The October 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi shows the magazine pushing decisively toward a more coherent culture of seme, bondage, sadism, masochism, fetishism, and erotic classification. Its 150 PDF pages combine historical punishment imagery,…
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September 1953
The September 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi is one of the clearest examples of the magazine consolidating bondage, seme, sexual pathology, crime, historical punishment, same-sex desire, and reader-oriented erotic knowledge into a recognizable SM-centered…
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August 1953
The August 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi is a particularly revealing example of the magazine’s effort to gather many different forms of erotic abnormality into a single visual and literary world. Its 153 printed…
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Kitan Club, February 1955 Special Enlarged Issue
This February 1955 special enlarged issue of Kitan Club is a 309-page miscellany combining bondage illustration, staged photography, sexual and psychological essays, reader testimony, serialized fiction, translated European writing, historical material, prison memoir, autobiographical…
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