Fuzoku Kitan

June 1960

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Issue Details

Issue
6
PDF pages
150

Summary

The June 1960 issue of Fūzoku Kitan is organized around a special investigation of fetishism, framed by an unusually extensive opening sequence of erotic art and staged bondage photography. The issue’s editorial identity combines popular sexology, purported case history, crime reporting, confession, historical miscellany, fiction, and visual spectacle. Its central concern is the way desire becomes attached to specific body parts, garments, odors, bodily functions, disabilities, humiliation, pain, and ritualized restraint.

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The front matter begins with Japanese erotic-print reproductions, a formal printed table of contents, imported Western imagery, and a long bondage portfolio. The photographs move between a garden, tatami rooms, screens, bedding, and enclosed domestic spaces. Rope is used for standing spread-eagle restraint, ankle suspension, compact floor ties, gagging, breast and torso harnesses, wrists bound behind the back, and poses involving trees, posts, furniture, and architectural supports. Short captions transform these tableaux into miniature narratives of sacrifice, captivity, sorrow, frenzy, and private punishment. A final page presents photographs submitted by a reader, reinforcing the magazine’s participatory subculture.

The main textual feature begins with Ōtachi Kinji’s overview of fetishism as sexual symbolism and substitution. Subsequent articles isolate particular forms: fixation on hair, arousal from excretion and urine, desire for women’s underwear, and attraction to men with physical disabilities. These essays mix terminology borrowed from psychiatry and sexology with anecdotes, newspaper cases, historical references, and sensational examples. The feature then expands into a lengthy crime history of attacks involving the cutting of women’s hair, breasts, buttocks, and clothing, followed by discussions of olfactory fetishism, enemas, clothespins, and the Korean ruler Yeonsangun as a figure of sexual cruelty.

The later issue broadens into historical and narrative material. It includes stories of bride capture, fox transformation, Meiji-period sexual curiosities, the erotic dimensions of punishment and public spectacle, a survey of sideshow abnormalities, a masochistic wife, voyeurism in public baths, male impotence advice, and a case involving an eighteen-year-old woman and compulsive sexuality. The final extended story, “Lesbos Day,” shifts toward female same-sex desire and social observation. Closing pages also contain short notices, advertisements, reader-oriented material, and publication information. Across the issue, Fūzoku Kitan presents sexuality as an archive of unusual objects, compulsions, crimes, memories, and theatricalized suffering.

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Table of Contents 27 items
  1. Painful Altar
    Summary

    A staged erotic visual feature depicting a bound woman presented as a sacrificial figure, with surrounding participants and scenes of ritualized restraint.

  2. Nymph Among the Trees
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents a nude woman bound to trees and branches in an outdoor setting, emphasizing rope restraint, exposure, and immobilized poses among foliage.

  3. Ankle-Bound Nude
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a nude woman restrained by ropes around her ankles and legs in a series of indoor floor and reclining positions.

  4. The Curse-Binding of the Secret Room
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman bound with rope in a shoji-lined secret room, progressing through varied poses of confinement and sensory restriction.

  5. Prisoner of the Garden
    Summary

    This outdoor bondage photographic feature presents a woman restrained with rope on tatami and against garden structures, emphasizing the contrast between natural surroundings and captivity.

  6. Melancholy Beauty
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio titled “Melancholy Beauty” portrays a woman bound in elaborate rope arrangements across floor-level and seated poses, combining restrained elegance with helplessness.

  7. Bondage Photographs Submitted by a Reader
    22
    Summary

    A reader-submitted photographic feature presents multiple posed bondage scenes, documenting rope restraint and the subject’s changing positions through a series of images.

  8. The Reality of Fetishism by Ōtachi Kinji
    Summary

    Ōtachi Kinji examines fetishism as a form of sexual symbolism, explaining how otherwise ordinary body parts, bodily products, clothing, objects, and situations become charged with erotic significance through individual psychology and cultural conditioning.

  9. Fetishism Concerning Hair by Somei Keiichirō
    Summary

    Somei Keiichirō surveys hair fetishism through psychological discussion, historical references, reported incidents, literary and visual examples, and case narratives involving the collecting, cutting, handling, and erotic idealization of women’s hair.

  10. Aroused by Excrement by Uemura Kyūzō
    Summary

    A case-based account of people sexually aroused by excrement and urine, examining their experiences, behaviors, and the psychological meanings attributed to these fetishes.

  11. The Man Who Desires Women’s Underwear by Takashima Takashi
    Summary

    A sensational case study of men who desire women’s underwear, including panty theft, collecting and handling garments, and the psychological dynamics of secrecy, excitement, and fetishistic attachment.

  12. The Woman Who Feels Desire Only for Disabled Men by Wada Tomo
    Summary

    An interview-style account of a woman who experiences sexual desire only for physically disabled men, exploring her attraction, relationships, and the psychological and social consequences of this highly specific preference.

  13. The Black Phantom: A History of Breast-Stabbing and Buttock-Cutting Incidents by Shinkawa Yūji
    Summary

    A sensational historical survey of postwar incidents in which women were attacked with knives, especially cases involving breast-stabbing and buttock-cutting, accompanied by graphic illustrations and police-case details.

  14. The Source of Fetishism Is the Sense of Smell by Yushima Shigeru
    Summary

    An essay on olfactory fetishism argues that smell is a powerful source of erotic attraction, discussing bodily scent, clothing, shoes, and fetishistic desire through psychological reflections and illustrative correspondence.

  15. The Woman Enchanted by Enemas by 鵜藤恵
    Summary

    An erotic first-person account describes a married woman’s growing fascination with enemas, including repeated intestinal infusions administered by her husband and the psychological and bodily sensations they produce.

  16. Eighty-Seven Clothespins by Hoshino Kaoru
    Summary

    An erotic narrative recounts a woman’s escalating punishment and sexual conditioning through the application of dozens of clothespins, combining bodily pain, humiliation, and marital sadomasochism.

  17. The Perverse King Yeonsangun by Komatsu Tōgorō
    Summary

    This sensational historical account of the Korean king Yeonsangun portrays his sexual excesses, coercive treatment of palace women, violent punishments, and the political and familial cruelty surrounding his reign.

  18. A Bride Should Be Seized by Shōji Zenkichi
    Summary

    An essay surveys bride-capture and forced-marriage customs in Japan and elsewhere, discussing their ritual forms, social functions, violence, and persistence in modern accounts.

  19. The Story of a Fox That Became a Woman and Coupled with a Man by Wakatsuki Yasuaki
    Summary

    A supernatural erotic tale recounts a fox spirit transforming into a beautiful woman, marrying a man, and eventually revealing her animal nature amid deception, pursuit, and renewed encounters.

  20. A History of Sexual Curiosities in the Meiji Period, Part 5 by Kubo Teramasa
    Summary

    This fifth installment compiles sensational Meiji-era reports of sexual and domestic irregularities, including cross-dressing, suspicious deaths, illicit relationships, sexual violence, and unusual marital scandals, alongside period illustrations.

  21. In What Ways Is Punishment Perverse? by Iritani Daisuke
    Summary

    A historical survey of Japanese punishments, describing execution methods, confinement, corporal penalties, and specialized punishment apparatus through illustrated examples and archival anecdotes. The article presents punishment as a changing social and legal practice, with particular attention to cruelty, spectacle, and bodily suffering.

  22. A General Survey of Perverse Sideshows by Iritani Daisuke
    Summary

    An illustrated overview of unusual and sensational punishments and public penal spectacles, ranging from bodily mutilation and execution to confinement and other coercive practices. It combines historical records, technical descriptions of punishment devices, and commentary on how penal violence was displayed to observers.

  23. Masochistic Wife: Yone Yahagi, the Second by Hamamura Toshio
    Summary

    A fictional account of a married couple whose relationship becomes increasingly violent and sadomasochistic, involving beatings, restraint, humiliation, burning, and other punishments imposed on the wife. The narrative focuses on marital power, female submission, and the escalation of abusive erotic discipline.

  24. Public-Bath Peeping Stories by Hibino Kanji
    Summary

    A first-person-style collection of public-bath voyeurism anecdotes describes men peeping at women bathing, the techniques and risks involved, and the excitement produced by secret observation.

  25. How to Resolve the Worries of a Man Who Cannot Perform by Matsui Hiroshi
    Summary

    A medical-advice feature addresses erectile difficulty through psychological, marital, and physiological explanations, discussing rest, lifestyle changes, hormone treatments, injections, and other purported remedies.

  26. The Perverse Desire That Scattered Eighteen Young Women by Takezaki Yasushi
    Summary

    A sensational case narrative follows a sexually exploitative man who lures and manipulates numerous young women, including episodes of group encounters, coercion, restraint, and destructive sexual obsession.

  27. Lesbos Day by Masaki Shin'ichi
    Summary

    A serialized erotic sadomasochistic fiction follows Mayumi through encounters involving female domination, captivity, rope bondage, punishment, and escalating psychological and physical coercion. The narrative is accompanied by dramatic illustrations depicting bound, gagged, blindfolded, and tormented women, and frames same-sex desire and forbidden erotic fantasy through a medicalized and sensational setting.

Highlights

  • A formal contents spread introduces a fetishism special issue combining illustrated sexology, crime history, confession, fiction, and historical miscellany. (PDF p. 3).
  • The opening visual sequence includes Japanese erotic-print reproductions, imported Western imagery, and a color sacrificial-bondage composition. (PDF pp. 2, 4–6).
  • An extensive bondage portfolio stages standing, recumbent, gagged, ankle-bound, torso-bound, and garden restraint in a sequence of titled photographic tableaux. (PDF pp. 7–21).
  • A reader-submitted bondage photograph page demonstrates the magazine’s active relationship with its audience and the circulation of amateur restraint imagery. (PDF p. 22).
  • Ōtachi Kinji’s lead essay establishes the issue’s conceptual framework by defining fetishism through body parts, garments, materials, actions, and substitute objects. (PDF pp. 24–30).
  • The central fetishism sequence examines hair, excretion, women’s underwear, disability, smell, enemas, and clothespins through case histories and period psychiatric language. (PDF pp. 31–78).
  • A lengthy illustrated crime history catalogs attacks in which women’s hair, breasts, buttocks, clothing, and other bodily targets were cut or stabbed. (PDF pp. 46–58).
  • Historical features connect sexual cruelty with Yeonsangun, bride capture, fox-transformation folklore, Meiji curiosities, punishment, and public spectacle. (PDF pp. 79–107).
  • The later issue turns toward masochistic marriage, bathhouse voyeurism, impotence advice, compulsive sexuality, and an extended narrative of female same-sex desire. (PDF pp. 114–150).

Contributors

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