Kitan Club
January 1953
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Summary
This January 1953 issue of Kitan Club combines erotic fiction, first-person confessional narratives, historical and quasi-ethnographic writing, sexual humor, reader discussion, bondage photography, and illustrated essays. Its contents move between contemporary domestic scenarios, historical accounts of sexuality and punishment, discussions of sadomasochistic impulses, male homosexuality, chastity devices, prostitution, fetishism, and criminal obsession. The issue also includes a substantial reader roundtable on the psychology of inflicting pain, a selection of erotic folk songs, translated or adapted foreign material, and numerous drawings and photographs. The complete PDF contains 174 viewer pages, including the continuation and conclusion of the final story through PDF page 173 and advertising on PDF page 174.
Table of Contents 26 items
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Frontispiece: The Suspended Woman (吊り下げられる女)
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Color Frontispiece: Apostle of Love (愛の使徒)
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Romantic Photography: Drawing a Bound Woman (縛った女を描く)
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Love Slave (らぶ・すれいぶ)
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The Fallen Man (脱落者)
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Record of Tokugawa Bedchamber Passions (徳川閨門痴情録)
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Diary of a Wartime Woman (戦争処女の手記)
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Reflections on the Nagasaki Rashamen (長崎らしゃめん考)
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Strange Questions and Answers (変の字問答)
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Lustful Fire (淫火)
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Selected Erotic Folk Songs (好色民謡選)
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A Wife's Confession: The Wife's Revenge (人妻告白記 妻の復讐)
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Wrapped in a Pink Veil: I Tried Being Bound (桃色のベールに包まれて—縛られてみて)
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The End of the Masochist (マゾヒストの果て)
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Reader Roundtable: The Psychology of the Impulse to Inflict Pain During Sexual Pleasure (読者座談会 交悦に伴う責めの衝動心理)
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The Obsession with Paste (糊の執著)
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In Praise of the Nasal Cavity (鼻腔礼讃)
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The Flower Path of Male Love (男色の花道)
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Strange Short Piece: Three Windows of the Naked Woman (妖奇掌篇 裸女の三窓)
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My Record (僕の記録)
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A Boy's Love (少年の恋)
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Introduction to World Erotic-Humor Literature: The Chastity-Belt Curiosity (世界艶笑文学紹介 貞操帯奇譚)
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Beneath Your Whip (あなたのムチの下に)
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When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境)
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An Unusual Strategy (風変りな作戦)
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Confession of a Condemned Prisoner: The Man Possessed by Red (或る死刑囚の告白 赤に憑かれた男)
Highlights
- A formal illustrated contents spread identifies the issue's fiction, essays, confessions, historical pieces, reader discussion, and visual features. (PDF p. 4).
- The opening photographic feature presents a staged sequence of a bound woman, combining documentary-style photographs with drawn studies of restrained poses. (PDF pp. 7–14).
- Love Slave is a long first-person narrative centered on submission, coercive fantasy, and changing relationships of control. (PDF pp. 16–25).
- The Diary of a Wartime Woman gives an extended first-person account shaped by wartime displacement, sexuality, survival, and exploitation. (PDF pp. 36–43).
- The reader roundtable on the impulse to inflict pain records several participants debating sadistic desire, punishment, marital sexuality, fantasy, and personal experience. (PDF pp. 94–105).
- An essay on chastity belts introduces historical European devices and includes an illustration of a metal restraint apparatus. (PDF pp. 136–137).
- When I Draw a Woman in Torment presents Itō Seiu's reflections on depicting female suffering, artistic observation, models, and the construction of scenes. (PDF pp. 140–141).
- The final and longest late-issue story, The Man Possessed by Red, follows a condemned prisoner's confession and continues well beyond PDF page 150, concluding on PDF page 173. (PDF pp. 148–173).
