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KK Correspondence

February 1954

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Cover of KK Correspondence, February 1954

Issue Details

Issue
17
PDF pages
16

Summary

KK Correspondence No. 17, issued February 1, 1954, is a compact but unusually rich bulletin devoted to unconventional sexuality, bondage, masochism, erotic photography, and reader exchange. The opening essay, My Sexual Predilection by Sugawa Tsutomu, is a reflective first-person account of the author’s developing attraction to domination, physical restraint, and sadistic fantasy. Rather than presenting these interests merely as scandalous curiosities, the piece situates them within memory, adolescence, fantasy, and individual psychology. This confessional mode establishes the issue’s broader editorial identity: personal testimony is treated as a legitimate way to discuss abnormal or marginal sexual desire.

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The issue then moves through several contrasting genres. An anonymous contribution on fantasies involving an older woman is followed by The Water of Enchantment, which explores erotic obsession and bodily fascination in a more literary style. Yamaguchi Haruyuki’s Techniques of Abnormal Love shifts toward quasi-analytical commentary on unconventional sexual practices, marital dissatisfaction, prostitution, fetishism, and erotic experimentation. The text is accompanied by an illustration of a bound woman, reinforcing the bulletin’s habitual interplay between discussion and visual fantasy. Inoue Ken’s Recollections looks backward to earlier erotic and bondage imagery, recalling visual material encountered in youth and connecting it to later adult interests.

A recurring centerpiece is Takarazuka Fumio’s My Way of Tormenting, Part 9, which combines autobiography, erotic domination, and a photographic image of a woman posed outdoors. The following pages include the supplement to Iroha Jin, a multi-figure illustrated feature titled Several-Person Training Picture, short correspondence, and the seventh installment of Minemura Sakichi’s The Birth of a Masochist. This extended confessional narrative traces desire through marriage, jealousy, humiliation, domination, and the binding of a woman, presenting masochism as something experienced psychologically as much as physically.

The issue also contains unusually explicit practical and visual material. Several-Person Training Picture depicts groups of restrained and gagged women, while later pages explain the second Beautiful Binding album through a numbered catalog of thirty-two poses and techniques. The final full-page photograph reproduces one of these staged bondage images. The closing Editorial Department Notes discuss future photographs, serialized writings, reader submissions, sadomasochistic material, and the magazine’s ongoing effort to build a distinctive collection. As a whole, the issue reveals KK Correspondence as an early postwar erotic network in which confession, technique, photography, theory, and reader participation all feed into one another.

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Highlights

  • Sugawa Tsutomu's My Sexual Predilection opens the issue with a candid autobiographical account of developing attraction to domination, restraint, and sadistic fantasy, framing these interests through memory and personal psychology. (PDF p. 1).
  • The Water of Enchantment presents erotic obsession and bodily desire in a literary mode and is accompanied by a photograph of a woman restrained with dark straps or rope. (PDF pp. 3–4).
  • Yamaguchi Haruyuki's Techniques of Abnormal Love discusses unconventional sexual practices, marital dissatisfaction, prostitution, and erotic experimentation, placing individual desire within broader social and psychological commentary. (PDF pp. 4–5).
  • Inoue Ken's Recollections connects childhood and adolescent encounters with bondage imagery to later adult erotic interest, offering a valuable memoir of the visual formation of fetish desire. (PDF pp. 6–7).
  • Takarazuka Fumio's My Way of Tormenting, Part 9 continues the recurring autobiographical series and combines personal erotic narrative with a photographic bondage pose. (PDF pp. 8–9).
  • Several-Person Training Picture presents illustrated scenarios of multiple restrained and gagged women, shifting the issue from personal narrative into explicitly staged fantasy and group restraint imagery. (PDF pp. 10–11).
  • Minemura Sakichi's The Birth of a Masochist, Part 7 continues a first-person psychological narrative of marriage, jealousy, humiliation, domination, and sexual compulsion. (PDF pp. 12–14).
  • The second Beautiful Binding album is explained through a numbered list of thirty-two bondage poses and techniques, ranging from crotch binding and ankle restraint to standing ties, inverted positions, suspension, and group arrangements. (PDF pp. 14,16).
  • A full-page photograph from Beautiful Binding, Part Two shows a seated woman being restrained by another woman, emphasizing staged rope technique as a central photographic subject. (PDF p. 15).
  • The final Editorial Department Notes discuss future serialized material, reader submissions, photographic plans, sadomasochistic content, and the magazine's effort to build a distinctive erotic collection. (PDF p. 16).
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