Kitan Club
April 1974
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4
- PDF pages
- 185
Summary
Kitan Club’s April 1974 issue presents itself as a documentary magazine of sexual customs, combining extensive staged bondage photography with reportage, confessional writing, serialized fiction, critical commentary, reader correspondence, and submission notices. The opening section is dominated by black-and-white and color photographic portfolios depicting rope bondage, suspension, restraint, domestic interiors, and posed erotic tableaux. Front-matter notices recruit female models and solicit manuscripts, establishing the magazine as a participatory publication linking readers, models, photographers, and writers.
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Table of Contents 20 items
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Photo: Enjoying the Allure of Enchantment
Summary
A photographic feature presenting staged bondage and suspension scenes in both monochrome and color, emphasizing rope, posture, domestic interiors, and the visual allure of restrained bodies.
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A Camera-and-Pen Reportage: The Secret of Lewd Fingers—The Akino Eiko Chapter
Summary
A long illustrated reportage follows an SM research group through staged bondage, suspension, shaving, commands, inspection, photography, and repeated sessions. Its later pages question whether camera-based reportage can separate detached observation from participation.
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A Confession from My Own Experience: The Melody of Pain
Summary
An autobiographical and reader-oriented column reflects on earlier SM magazines, bondage imagery, marriage, clubs, photography, and the tension between ordinary domestic life and private erotic fantasy.
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Serial Novel: Dog—Great Eruption, Part 66
Summary
A continuing erotic-adventure serial follows Gina through espionage, organized crime, capture, interrogation, trafficking, and escape. Its international settings and criminal plot are repeatedly shaped by scenes of captivity, coercion, humiliation, and restraint.
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A Tattooed Woman’s Confession: I Love Tattoos
Summary
A first-person confession traces an intense fascination with tattooed bodies, tattoo imagery, pain, bodily transformation, and the social reactions surrounding women’s tattooing.
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Serial Period SM Novel: The Gate of Shiran
Summary
A continuing historical S-novel set amid Edo-period household, foreign, servant, and courtesan milieus. Its plot centers on confinement, forced display, humiliation, punishment, competing claims of possession, and attempts at rescue or revenge.
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My Personal History: Longing for a Rubber Mantle
Summary
A personal sexual memoir describes the discovery of rubber clothing and a rubber mask, the growth of a rubber fetish, attempts to involve a partner, and the resulting tensions within courtship, marriage, and domestic life.
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An Examination of S&M: A Study of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
Summary
A critical essay studies Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s SM photography through pose, lighting, framing, facial expression, restraint apparatus, theatrical construction, and the viewer’s response to staged female vulnerability.
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Serial S&M Group Work: Woman’s Captivity, Part 2
Summary
An M-Group captivity narrative follows Ryōko through pursuit, confinement, punishment, attempted escape, and institutional discipline. Large photographs and illustrations show ropes, cages, locks, handcuffs, grilles, and other restraint devices.
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In Sympathy with Tokiko’s Self-Bondage: A Theory of Self-Bondage Technique
Summary
A practical and theoretical essay examines self-bondage, ropes, handcuffs, suspension, body position, circulation, release, materials, and the physical dangers of absolute immobilization.
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Various Dreams Drawn by a Masochistic Woman: Five Nights of Lewd Dreams
Summary
A five-part dream narrative moves through surreal episodes of domination, restraint, massage, bodily sensation, humiliation, and shifting power relations involving women, men, and a dog.
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A Lament for a Man and Woman: The Distant White Road
Summary
A multi-part narrative follows a man whose present relationships are shaped by memory, earlier-life imagery, social status, workplace encounters, and changing intimacy. Its opening blends recollection, erotic attraction, fantasy, and emotional distance.
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Confession: The Last Enjoyable Night
Summary
A nostalgic first-person account describes a final pleasure trip with a married acquaintance before her marriage, including travel to the Izu/Atami area, an inn, elaborate bondage, suspension, props, photography, and reflections on memory.
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Untold Story from the Defeat: Japanese Women’s Slaves
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A sensationalized war-confession narrative links Japanese women’s experiences in Manchuria to defeat, coercion, postwar shame, forced display, bondage, drugs, alcohol, staged lighting, and sexualized authority. It concludes with an explicit completion marker.
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Confession: Around My Adolescence
Summary
A retrospective confession recounts adolescent voyeurism around school and women’s toilets, focusing on privacy, bodily exposure, concealed observation, clothing, mirrors, and the development of erotic curiosity.
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Masochistic Story: Splendid Gourmet Food
Summary
A continuing narrative combines food, fashion, professional respectability, bodily functions, humiliation, voyeurism, enemas, laxatives, and public or workplace concealment. It concludes at printed page 179.
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Strange Tales of the Women’s Prison at Denmachō: Tales of the Women’s Jail
Summary
An Edo-period historical narrative follows debt, household ruin, revenge, capture, and the incarceration of Kachō in a women’s prison. Female guards and inmates subject her to forced undressing, binding, beating, exposure, coerced singing and dancing, and institutional spectacle.
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Hanging Miss Maeda Machiko: A Discussion of Hanging Punishment
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Fiction: The Beautiful Boy Club
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The Conduct of an Abnormal Gentleman: Record of M-Type Friendships
Highlights
- The cover defines Kitan Club as a new documentary magazine of sexual customs and culture, while the front matter solicits female reader-models and prize manuscripts. (PDF pp. 1–2).
- The opening photographic portfolios combine black-and-white and color images of rope bondage, suspension, restraint, domestic interiors, and staged bodily tableaux. (PDF pp. 3–27).
- The Secret of Lewd Fingers combines first-person SM reportage, an SM research-group setting, extensive staged photography, and an explicit debate over whether camera reportage can remain objective. (PDF pp. 29–71).
- Great Eruption, identified as episode 66 of the serial, combines international crime and espionage with captivity, coercion, and erotic spectacle, ending unfinished. (PDF pp. 78–85).
- The essay Tsukamoto Tetsuzō: A Sketch in Three Arguments examines the staging, lighting, posture, and viewer response involved in Tsukamoto’s SM photography. (PDF pp. 106–115).
- A Technical Theory of Self-Bondage discusses practical restraint methods, suspension, bodily limitations, release, and safety concerns. (PDF pp. 130–133).
- The long war-confession feature frames coercive sexual testimony through defeat, Manchuria, postwar shame, photography, and theatrical performance. (PDF pp. 152–165).
- The closing Women’s Prison Story transfers recurring themes of institutional punishment, forced exposure, captivity, and spectatorship to an Edo-period women’s prison. (PDF pp. 178–185).
Contributors
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