Kitan Club
June 1974
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 6
- PDF pages
- 181
Summary
The June 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large photographic opening, first-person SM testimony, reader-derived material, serialized erotic fiction, illustrated fantasy, marital case studies, and reports connected with organized SM circles. Its editorial identity is strongly participatory: rather than presenting bondage solely as fantasy, the issue repeatedly frames it through named couples, amateur research groups, personal collections, confessions, and recollections of actual play. Rope restraint, gagging, humiliation, marital submission, masochistic self-discovery, and the transformation of ordinary domestic relationships into structured SM relationships recur throughout.
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Table of Contents 31 items
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Melancholy and Solitary Beauty: Photo Specialunpaginated
Summary
A large monochrome photographic portfolio showing multiple women in rope bondage, gags, pillar restraints, floor positions, and partial suspension in Japanese interior settings.
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Color Photo Section: Twelve Posesunpaginated
Summary
A color portfolio extending the opening visual material through staged rope bondage poses photographed in domestic interiors.
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The Beauty of Cruelty
Summary
A brief illustrated introductory piece reflecting on the aesthetic attraction of cruelty and restraint within the issue's SM framework.
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Melancholy and Solitary Beauty: Hiroko Takamura
Summary
An extended photo-and-text feature centered on Takamura Hiroko, documenting a succession of rope restraints, gags, leg positions, floor bondage, and staged SM play.
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Stepmother: The Fateful Encounter of S and M
Summary
Erotic prose fiction exploring a relationship structured around sadistic and masochistic attraction, with psychological tension between familial roles, desire, and domination.
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Image Gallery: Garden's Rare Flower
Summary
An erotic illustration of a restrained woman posed astride a garden object, accompanied by the surrounding fictional narrative.
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My Collection: Collecting Female Breast Impressions
Summary
A collector describes making and preserving impressions of women's breasts and explains the personal fetish, encounters, and collecting practices associated with the archive.
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Image Gallery: Meal Preparation Suspended
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An illustrated bondage fantasy inserted into the surrounding collector narrative.
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Chain Fundoshi: Ending the Keeping of a Slave Wife
Summary
A short first-person piece centered on a chain fundoshi and changing relations between a dominant husband and submissive wife.
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Image Gallery: Scream of Soft Flesh
Summary
A single-page illustration depicting a woman in elaborate fetish restraints and accompanied by a brief narrative fragment.
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SM Play Report: Tormenting a Rubber-Clad Doll
Summary
An extensive illustrated report follows a married woman dressed in rubberized clothing through an organized SM session, combining participant commentary with photographs of restraint, sensory restriction, and group play.
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The Magic of Electricity
Summary
A pulp erotic-fiction installment involving captivity, electrical torment, international characters, and escalating sadomasochistic danger.
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Image Gallery: Experiment with a New Torment Device
Summary
An elaborate fantasy illustration presents a captive woman restrained in a mechanical torment apparatus.
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Image Gallery: Ghastly Hospitality
Summary
A bondage illustration places a restrained woman in a threatening fantasy scene built around exaggerated forms of hostile hospitality.
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Prostration Before the Goddess: The Birth of a Masochist
Summary
The narrator recalls formative experiences that led to a self-recognition as a masochist, connecting school memories, humiliation, fetishistic fascination, and later adult desire.
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Image Gallery: The Finest Hospitality
Summary
A historical-style erotic illustration uses a dominant woman and restrained man to invert conventional gender authority.
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From Kept Wife to Play Wife, from Play Wife to Slave Wife
Summary
A wife describes how her marriage moved from conventional domestic life into deliberate SM play and finally into a self-understood slave-wife relationship.
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The Sun Sets on Bāgura, Part Two
Summary
A travel and erotic-adventure installment follows the narrator through encounters away from Japan, blending observations of place, sexuality, nightlife, and SM-inflected fantasy.
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Image Gallery: Rope, Chain, and Whip
Summary
A captive woman is shown bound with rope and chain beside a whip, compressing several recurring SM implements into a single fantasy image.
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Image Gallery: Black Cat
Summary
A surreal erotic illustration pairs a reclining woman with a black cat, adding an ominous symbolic element to the surrounding narrative.
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Image Gallery: Memories of Cohabitation
Summary
An illustration of a domestic bondage encounter evokes remembered intimate life within the accompanying prose.
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My Body Ripens
Summary
A woman's autobiographical reflection recounts the development of bodily and sexual awareness and her growing involvement with SM experience.
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Great Eruption, Installment 68
Summary
A continuing comic-erotic adventure set partly in London combines travel observations, sexual farce, bondage motifs, and the exaggerated tone of a long-running serial.
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Female Prisoner, Part Four
Summary
A long captivity narrative develops through dialogue, coercive control, confinement, and the psychological relationship between captor and female prisoner.
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Image Gallery: Anxious Time
Summary
A restrained woman is depicted in a deliberately precarious and humiliating posture, emphasizing suspense and vulnerability.
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Image Gallery: Joy of Offering
Summary
A dominant woman presides over a submissive male figure in an image centered on ritualized service, offering, and humiliation.
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Confession of My First Binding of a Pregnant Woman: Memories of Kodama Masako
Summary
Setouchi Isamu recalls an early encounter involving the bondage of the pregnant Kodama Masako, illustrated with photographs of the session.
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Thoughts on the Sorrows and Joys of a Slave Wife
Summary
An essay examines several couples and considers what the slave-wife role means emotionally and practically within marriage, including obedience, punishment, devotion, and negotiated household authority.
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Image Gallery: SM Party
Summary
An illustration imagines a bound woman displayed within a private SM-party environment.
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Image Gallery: Pleasure Amid Shame
Summary
A single-page illustration emphasizes the connection between exposure, shame, restraint, and masochistic pleasure.
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The Ultimate in SM Is Group Play
Summary
A married male reader discusses multi-person SM, participation with other enthusiasts, and his belief that group play represents an intensified form of SM experience.
Highlights
- The issue opens with an extensive bondage-photography special, Melancholy and Solitary Beauty, photographed by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō, including monochrome and color portfolios followed by a long illustrated feature centered on Takamura Hiroko. (PDF pp. 3–26, 28–57).
- Satō Mitsuyasu's My Collection documents the unusual practice of collecting impressions of women's breasts, combining personal testimony with discussion of the collection as an SM and fetish archive. (PDF pp. 66–72).
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō's Tormenting a Rubber-Clad Doll is an extended photo-reportage feature on an S Research Group session involving the wife of Ōyama Ryōsuke, emphasizing organized amateur SM play and rubber fetish clothing. (PDF pp. 76–91).
- Prostration Before the Goddess is a prize-winning autobiographical confession tracing the narrator's early memories and the development of a masochistic identity. (PDF pp. 106–115).
- From Kept Wife to Play Wife, from Play Wife to Slave Wife presents Tamamoto Akiko's first-person account of a marital relationship developing into an explicitly structured SM partnership. (PDF pp. 116–121).
- Confession of My First Binding of a Pregnant Woman combines Setouchi Isamu's recollection of Kodama Masako with photographs documenting rope restraint during pregnancy. (PDF pp. 164–167).
- Thoughts on the Sorrows and Joys of a Slave Wife examines several married couples as case studies in female submission, marital authority, and the lived meaning of the slave-wife role. (PDF pp. 168–177).
- The Ultimate in SM Is Group Play closes the surviving issue with a married man's argument for and reflections on multi-person SM participation and organized group activity. (PDF pp. 178–181).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:


