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Kitan Club

November 1974

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Cover of Kitan Club, November 1974

Issue Details

Volume
28
Issue
11
PDF pages
183

Summary

The November 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary accounts of organized SM play, fiction, personal testimony, fetish essays, serialized narratives, and studies of specialized erotic practices. Its editorial identity is strongly participatory: models, photographers, practitioners, readers, and writers repeatedly cross the boundary between observation and performance, giving the issue the character of both an erotic magazine and a record of an active SM subculture.

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The opening section is dominated by photographic kinbaku imagery, including monochrome and color studies of rope bondage, gagging, contorted positions, suspension motifs, rubber garments, and close attention to bodily expression. This leads directly into the major S-Research Society feature, The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く, in which Tsukamoto Tetsuzō recounts a bondage session involving Yajima Yasuko and Kawamoto Kōzō. The article combines photographs with detailed first-person commentary on tying technique, the model’s responses, interpersonal trust, spectatorship, and the aesthetics of discomfort and restraint. Its length and documentary tone make it a central feature of the issue.

The middle portion broadens into fiction and experiential writing. A student-torture story is followed by Under the Midday Sun, the serialized M-faction profile Porno Actress, the experiential piece One Night in a Freak-Show Hut, the long-running serial novel Great Eruption, and the M-Group work The Female Prisoner. Later essays move toward interpretation and confession: Sadism Seen in Graffiti treats sadistic imagery as a subject of observation, while The Day My Wife Junko and I Burned and The Conduct of Love Slave Pero use personal or quasi-confessional forms. Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget adds another autobiographical fetish narrative before the historical SM serial The Gate of Purple Orchids.

The later pages shift toward focused fetish studies. The discussion A Swaying Bridle examines gagging or bit-related restraint, Women’s Sumo Notes treats female wrestling as an erotic and observational subject, and My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter gives a lengthy technical and experiential account of medicalized nasal stimulation. Throughout, illustrations and photographs remain integral rather than decorative, reinforcing Kitan Club’s characteristic mixture of documentation, fantasy, technique, confession, and community discourse.

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Table of Contents 17 items
  1. Image Gallery
    3–26
  2. Toward the Longed-for Love-Slave Wife by Kumiyama Takeshi
    29
  3. The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    30–63
  4. The Female Student Torture Incident by Oda Musaku
    64–65
  5. Under the Midday Sun by Fumiyama Kiyoshi
    66–77
  6. Porno Actress by Oniyama Kensaku
    78–92
  7. One Night in a Freak-Show Hut by Kōe Tatsuo
    93–97
  8. Great Eruption by Chiba Seiki
    98–105
  9. The Female Prisoner by Saji Mazō
    106–119
  10. Sadism Seen in Graffiti by Muranaka Moritarō
    120–127
  11. The Day My Wife Junko and I Burned by Miura Keiichi
    128–131
  12. The Conduct of Love Slave Pero by Sha Denzaburō
    132–140
  13. Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget by Takemichi Seiya
    141–143
  14. The Gate of Purple Orchids by Fūryū Gokudōken
    144–155
  15. A Swaying Bridle by Shinkawa Hiroo
    156–170
  16. Women's Sumo Notes by Omatsu Hirahiko
    171–175
  17. My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter by Satō Matsuo
    176–185

Highlights

  • The opening image gallery presents an extended sequence of monochrome and color bondage photographs, including rope harnesses, gags, rubber garments, floor ties, and highly contorted poses. (PDF pp. 3–26).
  • The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く is a major S-Research Society documentary feature combining Tsukamoto Tetsuzō's narrative with photographs of Yajima Yasuko being tied by Kawamoto Kōzō. (PDF pp. 28–61).
  • The serialized M-faction profile Porno Actress combines erotic illustration and prose in a sustained treatment of pornography, submission, and female performance. (PDF pp. 76–90).
  • Sadism Seen in Graffiti treats sadistic expression as a cultural and visual phenomenon rather than solely as fictional fantasy. (PDF pp. 118–125).
  • Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget is an autobiographical fetish essay accompanied by an explicitly themed illustration. (PDF pp. 139–141).
  • A Swaying Bridle develops an extended discussion of gagging, bits, restraint, and their erotic meanings, illustrated with bondage photographs. (PDF pp. 154–168).
  • Women's Sumo Notes examines female wrestling and bodily contest as an erotic spectacle, with accompanying illustrations. (PDF pp. 169–173).
  • My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter is a detailed late-issue exploration of medicalized nasal stimulation, including diagrams and photographs of catheter equipment and technique. (PDF pp. 174–183).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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