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, March 1955 Special Expanded Issue
Kitan Club's March 1955 special expanded issue is a large, densely illustrated publication combining pictorial fetish culture, theoretical discussion of sexual abnormality, serialized and prize fiction, autobiographical confession, historical inquiry, and an extensive reader-community…
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October 1980 Special Temporary Extra Issue No. 6
This October 1980 special temporary extra issue of Specialty S&M is an overwhelmingly photographic publication organized around staged bondage, restraint, corporal torment, humiliation, and eroticized endurance. The cover identifies it as Special Temporary Extra…
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January 1981
Specially S&M No. 15, the January 1981 New Year issue, combines staged erotic photography, autobiographical fetish testimony, marital SM narratives, serialized fiction, practical bondage instruction, reader correspondence, and community-oriented back matter. Its opening color…
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June 1961
The surviving June 1961 material from Fuzoku Kitan opens with a formal contents page that presents a characteristically broad issue combining bondage photography, cross-dressing, sadomasochistic fiction, sexual confession, horror and curiosity writing, and illustrated…
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May 1951 Issue
The May 1951 issue of Kitan Club combines erotic illustration, nude photography, humorous pseudo-journalism, sexual reportage, romantic and sensational fiction, crime stories, comic miscellany, and recurring urban-sexuality features. Its opening pages make the visual…
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February 1951 Issue: Collection of Rare Tales and Erotic Humor
The February 1951 issue of Kitan Club presents itself as a Collection of Rare Tales and Erotic Humor, combining nude photography, color erotic illustration, humorous anecdote, sensational reportage, detective stories, fiction, sexual folklore, and…
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Ancient and Modern Curious Tales Compared Special Issue
This issue of Kitan Club is organized as a broad entertainment miscellany centered on erotic curiosity, romantic intrigue, sexual confession, comic anecdote, crime, and unusual human behavior. The opening material is substantial rather than…
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October 1950: Special Issue on Fascination and the Bizarre
The October 1950 issue of Kitan Club is explicitly presented as a special issue on fascination and the bizarre, and it displays the magazine's early postwar identity as a wide-ranging erotic-curiosity publication rather than…
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Kitan Club, July 1950 Issue
The July 1950 issue of Kitan Club, identified in its publication information as the thirty-second collection, presents the magazine in an early postwar form that mixes sensational reportage, erotic and grotesque fiction, humorous miscellany,…
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September 1974 Issue
The September 1974 issue of Kitan Club, Volume 28, Number 9, serial number 319, opens with an unusually extensive photographic presentation before the regular numbered pages begin. The front section includes the photographic series…
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May 1961: Special Issue on Men and Women Possessed by the Whip
The May 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around the special feature Men and Women Possessed by the Whip, using whipping as a point of intersection between sadism, masochism, punishment, sexual desire, fantasy,…
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April 1961: Special Issue on the Pleasure of Cruelty
The April 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around punishment, cruelty, bondage, humiliation, and the erotic or psychological fascination these subjects exert. Its formal contents page identifies the principal special feature as East-West…
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December 1947: Eccentrics and Abnormal People, No. 2
The December 1947 Kitan Club, identified on the cover and contents page as No. 2 and as an Eccentrics and Abnormal People issue, develops the magazine's early postwar fascination with unconventional sexuality, unusual personalities,…
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November 1947
The November 1947 Kitan Club is an early postwar issue whose editorial identity is already recognizable as a mixture of sexological curiosity, ethnographic speculation, urban reportage, erotic humor, medical discussion, folklore, and accounts of…
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March 1961
The March 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around the prominently advertised special feature The World of the Masochist, but its scope is considerably broader. The opening cover and historical pictorial material establish…
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February 1961
The surviving February 1961 Fuzoku Kitan material is dominated by an unusually extensive bondage-photography section, preceded by a formal contents page that reveals a much broader editorial program of sadomasochistic fiction, cross-dressing confession, homosexuality,…
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May 1954
KK Correspondence No. 20, issued May 1, 1954, is a compact sixteen-page club bulletin reproduced here as eight paired-page scans. Its editorial identity is intensely participatory: rather than presenting a conventional sequence of polished…
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January 1961
The January 1961 issue of Uramado combines illustrated suspense fiction, bondage photography, historical and cinematic commentary, reader essays, erotic psychology, and several forms of period and contemporary visual narrative. Its two-page printed contents establishes…
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March 1960 Special Issue on Legendary Fiction
The March 1960 issue of Uramado is explicitly presented as a special issue devoted to denki shōsetsu, or legendary and fantastic fiction. Its editorial design combines historical adventure, crime and suspense, supernatural motifs, eroticized…
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July 1961
The July 1961 issue of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized around an unusually sustained visual exploration of bondage, erotic punishment, female submission, and sadomasochistic role reversal. The cover foregrounds male erotic torment, while the…
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