Kitan Club
November 1973
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Issue Details
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- 276
Summary
Kitan Club’s November 1973 issue presents itself as a documentary and literary record of sexual subcultures, combining bondage photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, fetish essays, visual catalogues, correspondence, and publishing notices. Its central editorial mode is a deliberate mixture of sensational display and quasi-documentary framing: photographs, captions, letters, medical vocabulary, bibliographies, and first-person accounts repeatedly claim to record practices, experiences, and communities while also constructing elaborate erotic fantasies.
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Table of Contents 46 items
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The Hyperbola of Abnormal Beauty
Summary
A substantial photographic portfolio of women in rope bondage, suspension, restraint, and staged contorted poses, accompanied by captions naming models and describing bondage arrangements and visual effects.
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Record of Our Married Couple’s Play Trip
Summary
A first-person married-couple account tracing travel, domestic experimentation, bondage, role reversal, bathing scenes, discipline, humiliation, and photographic documentation of the wife’s participation.
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The Nostalgia of the Smell of Straw Rope
Summary
A confessional account of the writer’s early discovery of rope bondage and the gradual formation of a secretive SM and bondage identity through memory, magazines, fantasy, and adult experience.
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The Midday Guest
Summary
A fictional domestic narrative in which an apparently ordinary visit develops into voyeurism, disguise, inspection, exposure, restraint, and coercive sexual staging involving a married couple and a female guest.
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The Slave Wife’s Laughter
Summary
A first-person reader-style account of written commands, domestic discipline, bondage, exposure, punishment, and the construction of an obedient slave-wife role.
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SM East–West Confrontation
Summary
A comparative SM feature presenting East–West styles, female-dominant and male-submissive roles, punishments, pseudonymous participants, terminology, and a cash-prize solicitation for reader submissions.
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The Devil’s Size Test
Summary
A theatrical narrative of military, medical, and quasi-scientific examinations in which bodies are measured, restrained, commanded, humiliated, and classified. Several full-page image plates are embedded in the sequence.
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SM Enterprise
Summary
An illustrated narrative about an alleged enterprise of sexualized coercion, equipment, testing, observation, and bodily discipline, set across commercial, office, medical, and experimental environments.
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Supplementary Bibliography of Women’s Sumo
Summary
A documentary bibliography of women’s sumo and related representations, listing publications, dates, performers, photographs, illustrations, and other sources while noting archival gaps and inviting reader additions.
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Human–Animal Intermarriage Report
Summary
A sensational report on human–animal erotic fantasy and representation, discussing staged photographs, performance, restraint, spectatorship, and the unstable boundary between alleged reality and constructed imagery.
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Shiran no Mon
Summary
A continuing historical erotic novel set in an aristocratic or samurai milieu, involving commands, servitude, treasure, household hierarchy, ceremonial settings, bondage, and ritualized submission.
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Exposing the Beauty of Pregnancy at Term
Summary
A long photographic narrative about a pregnant woman at term, combining letters, reportage, medical and childbirth vocabulary, repeated staged sessions, restraint, bodily inspection, voyeurism, and preparation for delivery.
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Vessel of Bestiality
Summary
An illustrated erotic narrative involving Tamiko and Toyoko, travel, restraint, humiliation, sexual domination, and repeated shifts between photographic and drawn visual presentation.
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Great Eruption
Summary
An unfinished narrative of confinement, water-based restraint, pursuit, coercion, resistance, and escape, accompanied by large illustrations and recurring scenes of bodily control.
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Hospital Walk Notes / Confession of a Woman Possessed by Sensation
Summary
A first-person hospital narrative about bleeding, pain, embarrassment, examination, surgery, recovery, and changing feelings toward doctors, nurses, and medical care.
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The Glamorous Fierce Woman
Summary
A theatrical dialogue-driven narrative of coercion, humiliation, money, threats, sexual bargaining, and shifting power, accompanied by drawings and comic-like visual material.
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Please Give Me a Master
Summary
A personal submission asking for a master and describing an idealized hierarchical relationship involving bondage, obedience, service, domestic discipline, and complete submission.
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Reflections on Inverted Suspension
Summary
A serialized visual essay documenting inverted suspension, ropes, posture, bodily effects, staged sessions, photographic technique, and the social network of couples, models, photographers, and readers surrounding SM image production.
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A Secret Called Colonic Irrigation
Summary
A confessional essay about colonic irrigation, cleansing, self-observation, SM imagery, bodily display, and the transformation of a secret bodily practice into an erotic identity.
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SM Graffiti Notebook
Summary
An illustrated SM column discussing bondage, suspension, piercing, tattooing, sexual display, and the interpretation and circulation of SM imagery.
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Aftermath of Piercing
Summary
A practical and testimonial account of genital piercing, covering insertion, anesthesia, bleeding, healing, hygiene, daily wear, and the couple’s later experimentation, with documentary photographs.
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The Ailing Poppy
Summary
A long fiction installment of family, domestic, institutional, and criminal conflict involving bondage, coercion, humiliation, role reversal, police, hospitals, journalists, and unstable authority.
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The Relationship Between the Looker and the Looked-at
Summary
A first-person essay examining voyeurism, domestic observation, clothing, bodily exposure, fantasy, surveillance, and the deliberate transformation of looking into an erotic practice.
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A Gentleman by Day, a Slave by Night
Summary
A first-person marital testimony contrasting public respectability with private domination, bondage, humiliation, and nighttime enslavement, accompanied by staged photographs.
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The Mad Thief Denki
Summary
An illustrated historical-crime narrative set in an Edo-period milieu of thieves, lodging houses, abduction, betrayal, imprisonment, pursuit, revenge, ropes, knives, and violent retribution.
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Play Report with My Lover
Summary
A male first-person report on sexual play with a girlfriend, including negotiated restraint, role-play, props, positions, and a numbered photographic sequence.
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Proposal Concerning Swimming Pools
Summary
A public-health essay criticizing polluted urban swimming pools and proposing improved sanitation, water treatment, maintenance, and facilities.
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Dear Editor
Summary
A reader letter about earlier submissions, photographs, publication, readers’ reactions, and the editorial handling of sexual-play reports.
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An Invitation to Play with Yuko’s Breasts
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An illustrated photographic report centered on Yuko, a proposed play session, and a sequence of staged photographs, followed by a reflective contribution concerning two women and fetish-oriented imagery.
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Orders to Slave Kōrin Yūji
Summary
A command-oriented domination scenario involving discipline, bodily display, master-slave role-play, and staged submission.
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Gray and Rose
Summary
A clothing-fetish essay linking color, bloomers, underwear, fashion, memory, gender presentation, and erotic imagination, accompanied by garment drawings.
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Memories of My Youth
Summary
A retrospective memoir of sexual curiosity, early experiences, marriage, domestic life, and animal-related themes, accompanied by a large photograph.
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Resident of the Bestiality District
Summary
A sensational personal account framed as testimony from an animal-sex milieu, combining animal-human sexuality, subcultural identity, and cartoon-like illustration.
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Sentence of Execution
Summary
An illustrated punishment fantasy involving interrogation, confession, restraint, sentencing, and sexualized humiliation.
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Bicycle Play
Summary
An outdoor erotic scenario involving cycling, exposure, urination, pursuit, capture, and role-play.
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Entertaining the Guest
Summary
A domestic hospitality scenario transformed into rope restraint, waiting, service, humiliation, and sexual role-play.
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The Appeal of Partner-Exchange Play
Summary
A discussion of partner exchange, couple negotiation, jealousy, group sexuality, and photographic staging.
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A Word to the Editors
Summary
A reader and prospective model writes about submitted photographs, publication hopes, appearance, and further contact with the magazine.
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From the Editorial Department
Summary
Editorial commentary on models, photography, reader responses, changing tastes, production, and forthcoming magazine material.
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The Pleasure of Commuting on a Crowded Train
Summary
A provocative personal scenario of crowded public transport, bodily proximity, embarrassment, voyeurism, and urban sexual fantasy.
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Nutritive and Evacuative Enemas
Summary
A medicalized discussion of nutritive and evacuative enemas, tubes, fluids, cleansing, nursing procedure, and bodily effects, accompanied by a procedural photograph.
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The Charm of Women’s Feet
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An essay on women’s feet, toes, soles, nails, walking, fashion, and visual appraisal, illustrated with close-up photographs.
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Me and Moxibustion
Summary
A first-person account of moxibustion, heat, pain, abdominal treatment, bodily sensation, and the connection between therapeutic procedure and erotic response.
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Distributed Photographic Materials
Summary
A large commercial catalogue of bondage, pregnancy, childbirth, enema, medical, suspension, punishment, and other fetish photographs, listing image numbers, descriptions, prices, quantities, and ordering information.
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Reader Correspondence
Summary
A broad reader department of letters and editorial replies concerning SM, bondage, photography, pregnancy, relationships, bodily practices, fetishes, submissions, and earlier issues.
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Afterword
Summary
Closing editorial remarks on readers, photographs, SM material, submissions, and editorial policy, followed by calls for confessions, memoirs, experiences, illustrations, photographs, and other contributions.
Highlights
- The Hyperbola of Abnormal Beauty, a large photographic portfolio credited to Tetsuji Tsukamoto, presents staged rope bondage, suspension, restraint, and contorted female poses. (PDF pp. 7–21).
- The married-couple play travelogue combines domestic testimony, travel narrative, photographs, bondage, role reversal, and negotiated submission. (PDF pp. 22–29).
- SM East–West Confrontation links photographs and commentary with female dominance, male submission, terminology, genealogy, contests, and reader participation. (PDF pp. 42–47).
- The Devil’s Size Test uses military and medical examination imagery to stage bodily measurement, humiliation, discipline, and coercive testing. (PDF pp. 48–61).
- The women’s-sumo bibliography documents books, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and other ephemeral sources relating to female wrestling and fetish print culture. (PDF pp. 70–74).
- The pregnancy-at-term feature combines first-person reportage, medical vocabulary, staged photographs, restraint, voyeurism, and childbirth imagery. (PDF pp. 98–127).
- The serialized inverted-suspension feature documents ropes, suspension equipment, staged sessions, photographic exchange, and Japanese SM networks. (PDF pp. 166–186).
- The final correspondence and catalogue sections show the magazine’s commercial and participatory infrastructure, including reader letters, model applications, prices, and photographic distribution. (PDF pp. 265–276).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akio Sasaki
- Chie Kosugi (probable)
- Chieko Kai
- Chizuyo Takahashi
- Editorial Department
- Hirohito Hakata (reading uncertain)
- Ichiro Funahashi
- Ikuko Saka
- Issaku Yamada (reading uncertain)
- Junichi Aoki
- Kan (attribution uncertain)
- Kichi Kanda (reading uncertain)
- Kiyoshi Murai
- Mariko Kitagawa
- Mizuaki Akino
- Rumi Kasuga
- Sachiko Tanaka
- Tachibana Fusayo (reading uncertain)
- Tatsuo Nomura
- Teruo (given name only; uncertain)
- Tetsuji Tsukamoto (photography)
- Various readers and correspondents
- Yōko Naeki (surname reading uncertain)
- Yuko Komatsu
