Kitan Club

An illustrated chronological history of women’s sumo and related erotic performance, covering ritual, folklore, festivals, Edo entertainment, censorship, and modern commercial spectacle.

A first-person young-man narrative explores bathing, nudity, voyeurism, homoerotic and heterosexual curiosity, and changing sexual desire through sensational confession and illustrated episodes.

A literary-sexual commentary interprets Hikaru Genji’s erotic psychology, relationships, curiosity, jealousy, and social privilege through episodes from The Tale of Genji.

A sensational narrative follows Heisuke’s fixation on women’s clothing, bodily exposure, voyeurism, and the acquisition of fetishized objects through intrusive erotic encounters.

An illustrated essay treats feet, toes, soles, posture, and bare-foot beauty as aesthetic and erotic subjects, placing fetishistic attention within Japanese artistic and literary tradition.

An illustrated mythological feature discusses Venus, Adonis, Psyche, and Cupid through themes of beauty, jealousy, erotic power, and attachment, with historical art reproductions.

A comparative essay examines male homosexuality and lesbianism through historical, literary, religious, biological, and sexological arguments, with discussion of changing social attitudes.

An Edo-period-style erotic serial follows a female physician and other characters through seduction, abduction, coercion, household intrigue, and clandestine encounters.

A historical survey traces male love through antiquity, court society, Buddhist institutions, and the samurai class, emphasizing male beauty, youth, hierarchy, and literary evidence.

A first-person woman recounts marriage, illness, breast surgery, bodily shame, altered identity, medical treatment, and the emotional consequences of losing her breasts.

A woman describes masculine appearance and behavior, artistic life, relationships with women, gender identity, and the use of an artificial phallus in a personal testimony.

An illustrated commentary considers the buttocks as an erotic and aesthetic object, comparing bodily ideals, nude art, cultural difference, and conventions of shame.

A woman’s essay compares female and male responses to nude photography, art exhibitions, bathhouses, and commercial erotic imagery, emphasizing spectatorship and culturally produced shame.

A serialized erotic story of clandestine meetings, coded messages, secret clubs, disguise, coercion, bondage imagery, and shifting power between two central figures.

A social report describes xianggong, the commercial organization of male prostitution, clientele, prices, recruitment, poverty, exploitation, and historical precedents in Chinese urban entertainment.

A postwar reportage feature examines mixed-race children, occupation-era relationships, prostitution, poverty, racial stigma, family secrecy, and the uncertain future of vulnerable children.

An autobiographical military memoir recalls army life, travel, military authority, encounters with Korean people, and the narrator’s reflections on class, gender, and national identity.

A discursive illustrated essay links flowers, fruits, vegetables, colors, fertility, gendered beauty, and botanical symbolism to erotic imagination across Japanese and Western traditions.

A dramatic hotel narrative follows a mother and daughter through debt, business pressure, sexual rivalry, pregnancy, deception, class tension, and the economic vulnerability of women.

A male correspondent describes masochistic submission, restraint, and humiliation, followed by a visual sequence of women bound with ropes, poles, and other devices.

A sexological essay treats sweat, skin secretions, puberty, menstruation, perfumes, hygiene, and alleged gendered or racial differences in odor as erotic signals.

An illustrated maritime detective serial investigates murder, concealed evidence, conflicting testimony, and sexual or personal relationships among men aboard a ship.

A married narrator examines extramarital attachment, marital dissatisfaction, guilt, jealousy, domestic responsibility, and the moral consequences of infidelity.

A first-person account recounts bondage, blindfolding, whipping, forced nudity, humiliation, artistic depiction, and the transformation of pain and restraint into remembered erotic experience.

A comparative history of adultery, incest, sexual offenses, private revenge, legal punishment, exposure, mutilation, execution, tattooing, and gendered sexual regulation across cultures.