Specialty S&M

January 1981

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Issue Details

Volume
4
Issue
1
PDF pages
170

Summary

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 pages establish the magazine’s visual vocabulary through bondage, humiliation, shaving, pregnancy imagery, suspension, and posed scenes of domination. Yamaguchi Tsubaki’s illustrated Yōbaku Mōrō Ezu then shifts from photography to graphic fantasy before the issue’s formal contents pages introduce the longer prose and photographic features that dominate the remainder of the magazine.

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The main body begins with Tsutsumi Misao’s My Half-Life of Diaper Obsession, a first-person account organized around a persistent diaper fetish and its relationship to the author’s sexual development. Niwa Kenichirō’s The Day I Punished Madame Keiko expands into a lengthy account of punishment, domination, equipment, and ideas about submission. Fujimoto Daisaku’s Reiko in Training continues the training motif, while Matsuzaka Kazumasa’s Sadistic Journey: My Life of Love and Torment with My Wife places increasingly elaborate SM activity within marriage. The Yuga Photo Gallery feature Young Wife’s Honey Flame follows as a substantial monochrome photographic sequence, reinforcing the issue’s movement between claimed personal experience and staged visual fantasy.

Later sections broaden the magazine’s range. Sailor-costume bondage photographs and the reader-submitted Bound Female Prisoner feature precede Akima Tōko’s serialized novel Momoko, Part Three. Shirakawa Sō’s Practical Rope-Bondage Techniques, Part Two is one of the issue’s most important technical features, using sequential photographs to demonstrate tachibishinawa and honnawa patterns while discussing placement, tightening, balance, bodily movement, and the practical behavior of rope. Continued: To My Master presents Miyoko’s correspondence as an intimate submissive confession, while Ōsawa Rie’s Traveler in the Forest of Bondage frames SM as a personal journey of discovery and experimentation.

The final third remains unusually rich rather than tapering into incidental back matter. Takizawa Fumiyoshi introduces his wife Tamiko in a reader-submitted marital memoir, and Tajima Yoshio’s Awakening to Couples’ Play describes the gradual incorporation of domination and restraint into married life. Shima Shikō’s Tomoko Training Travel Record: The Flame-Bound Girl Who Burned in Naniwa follows a training trip to Osaka and describes specialized hotel rooms, equipment, bondage, and role-play. An unnumbered Yuga Salon submission form is followed by six pages of Reader Correspondence, where readers discuss photographs, techniques, preferences, and their own experience. Yuga Salon then provides another community exchange space with letters and submitted photographs. The closing Shūsei Saibun page functions as an editorial afterword, reflecting on the magazine, its readership, and the place of SM publishing while also carrying the issue’s publication information.

Taken as a whole, the issue presents SM as a participatory subculture rather than merely a fantasy genre. Technique, fiction, domestic partnership, reader testimony, photography, correspondence, and editorial community-building continually overlap. Its mixture of instructional rope work, first-person confession, marital experimentation, and reader exchange makes it a particularly useful record of the social and editorial ecology of Japanese SM publishing at the beginning of the 1980s.

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Table of Contents 24 items
  1. Opening Color Pages
    Summary

    An opening color photographic feature depicting an adult female model in staged BDSM scenes involving rope bondage, restraints, blindfolding, gagging, and suspension-style positioning. The imagery emphasizes ritualized humiliation, physical vulnerability, and fetish performance.

  2. Two Suspension-Torment Poses
    10
    Summary

    A photographic feature presenting two staged suspension-torment poses of a bound adult female model, using rope restraints and immobilizing body positions as the central visual motif.

  3. Pregnant Belly Exposure
    9
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicting a pregnant woman’s exposed abdomen while she is posed in rope bondage, emphasizing the visual contrast between pregnancy and fetish restraint.

  4. Beautiful Face Play
    Summary

    A sequence of fetish photographs showing a woman in elaborate rope and leather restraints, including facial gagging and suspension-style poses, with close attention to expressions of sensation and submission.

  5. Fantasy Abuse
    Summary

    A photographic fantasy-abuse feature depicting nude adult models in staged scenes of rope bondage, restraint, and sexual humiliation. The sequence emphasizes theatrical poses, close physical control, and the visual presentation of captivity scenarios.

  6. Humiliating Shaving
    3
    Summary

    A photographic feature showing a nude adult model bound and subjected to humiliating body-hair shaving as a ritualized fetish scenario. The imagery focuses on exposure, restraint, and the degrading visual aspects of the shaving performance.

  7. Yōbaku Mōrō Ezu by Yamaguchi Tsubaki
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic feature presenting four scenes of Japanese women subjected to rope restraint, immobilization, and submissive posing. The artwork combines bondage imagery with traditional kimono, domestic interiors, bamboo, and other distinctly Japanese visual motifs.

  8. Yuga Photo Gallery: Young Wife's Honey Flame
    Summary

    A photographic erotic feature presenting a young wife in staged domestic scenes involving nudity, restraint, and elaborate rope bondage. The sequence emphasizes posed bondage tableaux, including immobilization, exposure, and power-play imagery in household and doorway settings.

  9. My Half-Life of Diaper Obsession by Tsutsumi Misao
    Summary

    An autobiographical account of a man’s lifelong diaper fixation, tracing its development from adolescence through marriage and describing diaper wearing, wetting, infantilist role-play, and related clothing practices. The illustrated feature also discusses his wife’s involvement and presents staged photographic scenes of adult diaper and rubberwear play.

  10. The Day I Punished Madame Keiko by Niwa Kenichirō
    Summary

    A first-person erotic S&M narrative recounts a session in which the narrator disciplines Madame Keiko through role-play, restraint, spanking, whipping, and other staged punishments. The piece combines scene description with reflections on feminine presentation, fetish aesthetics, and the contrasting conventions of Japanese and Western S&M.

  11. Reiko in Training by Fujimoto Daisaku
    Summary

    A first-person account describes Reiko being introduced to increasingly demanding S&M training, including verbal commands, restraint, bondage, sensory control, and other disciplinary exercises. The accompanying photographs document staged training scenes and demonstrate the progression of the couple’s practices.

  12. Sadistic Journey: My Life of Love and Torment with My Wife by Matsuzaka Kazumasa
    Summary

    Matsuzaka recounts a long marital relationship shaped by sadomasochistic experimentation, describing how he and his wife developed increasingly elaborate routines of restraint, punishment, and sexual role-play. The text presents these experiences as a personal memoir, accompanied by photographs illustrating bondage and disciplinary scenarios.

  13. My Diaper Playmate by Tsutsumi Misao
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicting a sailor-uniformed young woman in diaper-themed role-play, posed in domestic settings and shown restrained in a series of staged, submissive scenes.

  14. Bound Female Prisoner by Shikoku Sadosei
    Summary

    A staged bondage photography feature portraying a female prisoner fantasy through extensive rope restraint, suspension, kneeling, and confined poses, with the subject shown in progressively more restrictive positions.

  15. Momoko, Part Three by Akima Tōko
    Summary

    This installment of a dark erotic serial follows escalating relationships shaped by coercive bondage, confinement, physical punishment, and psychological domination. Domestic encounters and revelations about past violence deepen the narrative’s atmosphere of obsession, revenge, guilt, and emotional manipulation.

  16. Practical Rope-Bondage Techniques, Part Two by Shirakawa Sō
    Summary

    The second installment of a practical illustrated guide to Japanese rope bondage demonstrates progressively more complex ties for standing, seated, kneeling, and prone positions. Step-by-step photographs and instructions explain rope routing, crossings, tightening, positioning, and adjustments for body shape and comfort, with attention to avoiding excessive pressure and maintaining control.

  17. Continued: To My Master: Letters from Miyoko by Takizawa Miyoko
    Summary

    A continuing correspondence from Miyoko to her master combines submissive love letters with staged photographs depicting bondage, discipline, sexual service, and obedience. The letters discuss sending photographs, arranging meetings and telephone calls, following instructions, and presenting herself according to her master’s wishes.

  18. Traveler in the Forest of Bondage by Ōsawa Rie
    Summary

    An autobiographical account of a woman’s development within bondage and sadomasochistic sexuality, beginning with coercive childhood games with her brother and continuing through later relationships, partners, and self-exploration. The article combines narrative testimony with staged photographs depicting rope bondage, blindfolding, restraint, outdoor scenes, and erotic submission.

  19. Introducing My Wife-Slave, Tamiko by Takizawa Fumiyoshi
    Summary

    A photographic BDSM feature presents a husband’s account of introducing his wife, Tamiko, to an increasingly elaborate slave relationship. The narrative describes domestic discipline, restraint, humiliation, enemas, and staged scenes of sexual submission.

  20. Awakening to Couples' Play by Tajima Yoshio
    Summary

    A first-person couples memoir recounts a married pair’s gradual awakening to sadomasochistic play and the escalation of their shared experiments. The illustrated narrative includes rope bondage, spanking, blindfolding, forced poses, and negotiated or resisted role-play within the marriage.

  21. Tomoko Training Travel Record: The Flame-Bound Girl Who Burned in Naniwa by Shima Shikō
    Summary

    A photographic BDSM travelogue follows Tomoko from Tokyo to Osaka and Kyoto, documenting hotel-room scenes and the equipment, settings, and routines used during her training. The narrative describes escalating bondage, restraint, sensory stimulation, impact play, and role-directed submission through staged encounters accompanied by dialogue and commentary.

  22. Reader Correspondence
    Summary

    A reader-correspondence section featuring letters from S&M enthusiasts across Japan. Contributors discuss bondage practice and photography, share personal experiences and requests for exchanges or advice, and participate in the magazine’s network of readers and clubs.

  23. Yuga Salon
    Summary

    A mixed reader-and-community feature presenting personal notices, requests for S&M partners, bondage photographs and illustrations, and reports on specialized rooms and equipment. The section also includes reader commentary and promotional material oriented toward exchanging images, arranging encounters, and sustaining the magazine’s S&M community.

  24. Shūsei Saibun by Yamaguchi Akito
    168
    Summary

    An editorial apologizes for production and editorial shortcomings in the previous issue, including improperly trimmed pages, and explains the launch of the special S&M issue as part of a broader rethinking of the magazine’s direction. It discusses declining circulation, the balance between fiction, creative work, and fantasy, and invites readers to participate through submissions, criticism, and continued support.

Visual Catalog 25 sequences
  1. Specialty S&M, Issue 15 Archival title: January 1981 wraparound cover Cover Mechanical Blue wraparound issue cover with publication branding and an inset color rope-restraint photograph.
  2. Opening mail-order and publication advertisements Advertisement Dense advertisement page promoting S&M publications and related printed material, with small reproduced cover and photographic images.
  3. Opening color restraint-and-apparatus gallery Photographic Portfolio Five consecutive color pages presenting rope restraint, close-up prop imagery, standing rope work, gagging, and wall-mounted chain or bar restraint in a continuous opening gallery.
  4. Pregnancy-focused color photographic pair Photographic Portfolio Two consecutive color photographs centered on a pregnant adult woman, first as a close abdominal study with gloved hands and then as a side view wearing a rope harness on bedding.
  5. Wooden-frame suspension feature Photographic Portfolio Single predominantly visual color page containing two photographs of rope suspension or partial suspension using a substantial wooden frame.
  6. Dreamlike Pictures of Enchanted Bondage Archival title: Four-page Yamaguchi illustration suite Illustration Sequence Four consecutive full-page monochrome illustrations of adult figures in Japanese-themed scenes, including rope restraint and an inverted or suspended composition.
  7. My Half-Life of Diaper Humiliation and Incontinence Archival title: Sailor-style diaper-play photographic run Photographic Portfolio Seven consecutive text-and-photo pages showing the same adult woman in a sailor-style top, stockings or diaper-like garment, bedding, and intermittent rope restraint.
  8. Reiko Under Training! Archival title: Four-page Reiko photographic feature Photographic Portfolio Four consecutive black-and-white photo-bearing pages showing one adult woman across standing and bedding positions in a dark interior.
  9. Four-page domestic S&M photographic run Photographic Portfolio Four consecutive black-and-white photographs embedded in prose, showing an adult woman reclining or standing while another adult handles cords, straps, or small implements.
  10. Yume's Photo Gallery Archival title: Domestic apron-and-rope photo gallery Photographic Portfolio Eight-page black-and-white photo gallery moving from an outdoor opening image into a domestic interior with an adult woman in apron, stockings, and rope restraint across chair, table, floor, standing, and reclining positions.
  11. The Appeal of Rope Archival title: Arms-raised gagged portrait pair Photographic Portfolio Two consecutive high-contrast black-and-white close portraits of an adult woman with arms raised and a mouth restraint.
  12. Kumiko Sadistic Torment Archival title: Kumiko rope-restraint photo feature Photographic Portfolio Four-page black-and-white feature showing one adult woman in rope restraint across close, standing, and split-layout compositions.
  13. Fiery Ants, Dissolving Flow, Frenzied Hell Archival title: Four-page apparatus-and-restraint feature Photographic Portfolio Four consecutive black-and-white photographic pages centered on one reclined adult woman, rope and cloth restraint, and a basin with a large syringe-like vessel handled by other adults.
  14. My Wife Exposed in Sexual Imprisonment Archival title: Four-page domestic rope-restraint sequence Photographic Portfolio Four consecutive black-and-white photographs of one adult woman in a domestic interior, including prone, raised-leg, kneeling, and overhead-wrist restraint positions.
  15. My Diaper Play Archival title: Six-page sailor-style diaper-play gallery Photographic Portfolio Six consecutive black-and-white pages showing the same adult woman in sailor-style clothing and a diaper-like garment, with kneeling, reclining, and standing positions and intermittent rope restraint.
  16. Rotating suspension photographic pair Photographic Portfolio Two split-layout black-and-white pages showing an adult woman partially inverted or suspended from an overhead rope point.
  17. Horizontal-pole restraint photographic pair Photographic Portfolio Two consecutive black-and-white standing photographs of the same adult woman bent forward over a horizontal pole with leg rope and a line extending from the head or face area.
  18. Practical Rope-Binding Technique 2 Archival title: Step-by-step standing rope instruction Photographic Portfolio Eleven-page instructional photographic sequence demonstrating progressive rope placement from initial wrist and upper-body routing through a completed torso-and-arm configuration.
  19. Reader-letter photographic run Photographic Portfolio Seven consecutive text-and-photo pages within a reader-letter feature, each presenting a large black-and-white photograph of an adult woman in floor or bedding positions with blindfold, neck strap, wrist restraint, or related staging on some pages.
  20. Traveler in the Forest of Bondage Archival title: Outdoor bondage travel reportage Photographic Portfolio Eight-page photo-reportage run moving through wooded and yard settings, with multiple adults walking, posing, and adjusting clothing or rope; torso rope is clearly visible on several pages.
  21. Interior close-detail restraint photographs Needs Review Four consecutive dark or close black-and-white photo-bearing pages showing torso details, rear restraint, and a blindfolded or face-covered adult woman.
  22. Introducing My Enslaved Wife Tamiko Archival title: Two-page reader-submission photographic pair Photographic Portfolio Two consecutive text-and-photo pages showing an adult woman first seated in torso rope and then reclining on bedding.
  23. Awakening to Married-Couple Play Archival title: Three-page blindfold-and-rope photographic feature Photographic Portfolio Three consecutive text-and-photo pages showing a blindfolded adult woman in rope restraint, ending with a bedding photograph in which another adult handles a rope line.
  24. Tomoko Training Travel Record Archival title: Hotel travel and restraint reportage Photographic Portfolio Five consecutive photo-bearing pages documenting a hotel or club visit: horse-shaped apparatus, building exterior, mirrored rooms, and a wall-mounted chain-restraint setup.
  25. Later hotel restraint photographs Needs Review Three consecutive photo-bearing pages after the text interruption, including a torso-harness close-up, a brick-wall interior scene, and a standing rope-or-strap harness portrait.

Highlights

  • The opening color portfolio establishes the issue's visual program through staged bondage, humiliation, shaving, pregnancy imagery, suspension, and related SM scenarios. (PDF pp. 3–10).
  • Yamaguchi Tsubaki's Yōbaku Mōrō Ezu provides an illustrated fantasy sequence that contrasts with the photographic material surrounding it. (PDF pp. 12–15).
  • My Half-Life of Diaper Obsession is an unusually extended autobiographical fetish narrative in which the writer traces a persistent diaper fixation through his sexual life. (PDF pp. 18–29).
  • The Day I Punished Madame Keiko is a long-form domination narrative combining punishment scenes with reflection on equipment, sexual roles, and the author's understanding of SM. (PDF pp. 30–47).
  • Sadistic Journey: My Life of Love and Torment with My Wife presents SM experimentation as part of an evolving marriage rather than as an anonymous or purely fictional encounter. (PDF pp. 53–57).
  • The Yuga Photo Gallery feature Young Wife's Honey Flame forms a substantial monochrome sequence centered on restraint, domestic staging, exposure, and humiliation. (PDF pp. 58–65).
  • Akima Tōko's Momoko, Part Three is the issue's major serialized-fiction installment and occupies a substantial prose section immediately before the practical rope feature. (PDF pp. 92–106).
  • Shirakawa Sō's Practical Rope-Bondage Techniques, Part Two uses sequential photographs to demonstrate tachibishinawa and honnawa, with attention to rope placement, symmetry, tension, and movement. (PDF pp. 107–117).
  • Shima Shikō's Tomoko Training Travel Record follows a couple's SM trip to Osaka and documents a specially equipped hotel environment, specialized furniture, restraint equipment, and structured play. (PDF pp. 144–156).
  • Reader Correspondence and Yuga Salon close the issue with letters, photographs, requests for exchange, reactions to earlier issues, and discussion among readers, making the participatory character of the magazine particularly visible. (PDF pp. 158–169).

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