Kitan Club

October 1973

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Summary

Kitan Club’s October 1973 issue is a large, densely illustrated fetish magazine organized around staged photography, first-person confessions, SM fiction, cultural commentary, reader correspondence, and commercial photographic catalogues. Its opening pages move from advertisements and title matter into an extended photographic portfolio of women in bondage, restraint, humiliation, gagging, suspension, and forced poses. The visual material establishes the issue’s recurring emphasis on the body as both erotic object and theatrical subject, while festival, domestic, ceremonial, and quasi-medical settings provide contrasting stages for control and display.

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The first half combines memoiristic and confessional writing with visual inserts. Contributors discuss bondage technique, solitary women, mature women, human-animal sexuality, female dominance, pregnancy, gender presentation, and the eroticization of domestic relationships. Serialized fiction supplies darker narrative forms, including SM Corporation, The Gate of Shiran, Great Eruption, and Hiroshi Goes, which recast coercion, punishment, military hierarchy, criminality, and investigation as fictional or quasi-reportage scenarios. A long feature on humiliating bodily examination extends these interests through inspection, command, forced posture, and military language.

Later sections broaden the magazine’s cultural range without abandoning its central concerns. Rope and Leather and Paris Impressions compare Japanese and European erotic conventions, while European Pornography Travelogue surveys sex shops, clubs, live shows, films, magazines, censorship, and the commercial organization of sexual culture. The Tenjin Festival feature and the subsequent Glamorous Lady sequence return to heavily staged photographic narratives involving rope, suspension, bathing, apparatus, spectatorship, and female domination. Pregnancy and maternal bodies receive sustained attention in the autobiographical feature Recollections: Portraits of Pregnant Women.

The closing third is increasingly participatory and catalog-like. A long serial study of excretory play combines commentary with photographic case profiles, followed by reports on enemas, rubber play, chastity belts, scatology, marriage, fetish relationships, and media representations of bondage. Curio Salon gathers short reader submissions and specialized features, while pages 256–265 advertise extensive mail-order photographic collections concerning bondage, pregnancy, enemas, and other fetish subjects. Readers’ Correspondence then documents a geographically dispersed community exchanging experiences, requests, advice, photographs, and contacts. The final editorial page solicits manuscripts, photographs, illustrations, and reports, making the issue’s identity inseparable from participatory publishing and the circulation of fetish imagery.

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Table of Contents 25 items
  1. The Beauty in Handcuffs and Leg Irons by Yukiko Rika
    21
    Summary

    An extensive staged photographic portfolio showing women in handcuffs, leg irons, rope bondage, suspension, gagging, forced poses, and humiliating tableaux. Festival, domestic, and theatrical settings turn restraint into a deliberately composed visual spectacle.

  2. How to Dominate Me by Isamu Setouchi
    22
    Summary

    A first-person account of a man’s methods of selecting, binding, gagging, posing, and disciplining women. Photographs and captions present the memoir as both personal testimony and quasi-instructional visual demonstration.

  3. A Letter from a Woman Living Alone by Kyoko Murata
    30
    Summary

    A recurring correspondence column presents letters and editorial responses concerning solitary women, marriage, pregnancy, domestic sexuality, self-bondage, and unusual sexual experiences. Illustrations and a gallery-like panel are integrated into the column.

  4. I Like Women Who Are Fully Mature by Michio Sawada
    34
    Summary

    An autobiographical sexual narrative about attraction to mature and married women, massage, domestic intimacy, nudity, display, and voyeuristic fantasy. Large photographs and drawings accompany the account of marital and extramarital desire.

  5. SM Corporation by Shinjiro Akitsu
    38
    Summary

    The opening episode of a serialized SM fiction about a criminal organization, police pursuit, kidnapping, interrogation, restraint, and coercive training. Dialogue-heavy scenes and illustrated plates dramatize captivity and punishment.

  6. On the Sexuality of Women and Dogs by Nobumasa Miyata
    48
    Summary

    A commentary and personal narrative responding to reader discussions of women, dogs, marriage, jealousy, training, and human-animal sexuality. The piece frames its subject through correspondence, domestic power, and provocative illustration.

  7. The Gentlemen I Took in Hand by Rumi Kasuga
    52
    Summary

    A woman’s first-person account of controlling a male partner through commands, collars, leashes, crawling, feeding, grooming, bondage, and humiliation. Numerous posed photographs document the narrative’s female-dominant power relationship.

  8. I Want to See a Pregnant Woman Naked by Josei Kazehara
    63
    Summary

    A short commentary on fetishistic fascination with the pregnant body, especially the enlarged abdomen, observation, and the desire to photograph or view pregnancy.

  9. Mini Mikurin and Ilynx by Norifumi Tokita
    64
    Summary

    Prize-winning experiential fiction set around a beauty salon, where hair, wigs, cosmetics, masks, clothing, and bodily transformation become vehicles for erotic role-play and shifting gender presentation. The later pages add family memory, discipline, and a reader-submission notice.

  10. Supplement to a Bibliography of Women’s Sumo by Hirako Omatsu
    76
    Summary

    A bibliographical and cultural-history survey of women’s sumo in newspapers, books, folklore, performance, and popular entertainment. It distinguishes documentary traces from sensationalized or fabricated reports and includes a large drawing.

  11. The Gate of Shiran by Furyu Gokudo-ken
    80
    Summary

    A serialized period novel of coercion, bondage, punishment, humiliation, and gendered authority. Historical staging and visual plates turn domination into theatrical period fiction.

  12. Haruko Mandala by Riko Shiba
    90
    Summary

    A reflective, heavily illustrated feature about the construction of Haruko as an idealized and abused female image through fiction, modeling, photography, bondage, and artistic direction. Its concluding page turns toward sympathy, consolation, and survival.

  13. Great Eruption by Seiki Koba
    98
    Summary

    The fifty-first installment of a military and erotic narrative involving female soldiers, rank, riding, inspection, spectacle, animals, and humiliating discipline. Military hierarchy and pageantry organize the story’s eroticized bodily display.

  14. A Physical Examination Stained with Humiliation by Akiko Suzuka
    106
    Summary

    An extended first-person account of being stripped, restrained, measured, questioned, and inspected in a military or quasi-medical setting. Commands, forced postures, shame, and invasive examination are reinforced by three large illustrated inserts.

  15. Rope and Leather by Rika Karyu
    121
    Summary

    An essay comparing Japanese and Western approaches to leather, rope, nudity, performance, and restraint, prompted by a Parisian bondage show. A large bound-figure illustration extends the cultural comparison visually.

  16. Recollections: Portraits of Pregnant Women by Momoko Fukui
    122
    Summary

    A long personal and photographic meditation on pregnant bodies, breasts, childbirth, nursing, twins, beauty, aging, memory, and the publication of pregnancy images. It closes with an explicit completion marker.

  17. Hiroshi Goes by Hiroshi
    134
    Summary

    An investigative erotic-crime narrative following Hiroshi through police consultations, surveillance, hidden microphones, organized violence, bondage, and sexualized abuse. Dialogue, interviews, and visual inserts create a hybrid of reportage and serialized fiction.

  18. European Pornography Travelogue by Kameji Haseda
    150
    Summary

    A first-person survey of European sex shops, cabarets, live shows, films, magazines, pornography companies, censorship, and commercial sexual culture. It compares Nordic, West German, French, American, and Japanese practices through travel observation and photography.

  19. Paris Impressions by Akira Shinko
    162
    Summary

    A short cultural essay compares Parisian and Japanese pornography, SM magazines, fashion, erotic display, and commercial presentation. It considers exoticism, embarrassment, and the reader’s response to foreign sexual imagery.

  20. The Woman Who Came to the Tenjin Festival by Tetsuzo Tsukamoto
    164
    Summary

    A photo-heavy narrative of a woman staged in festival and outdoor settings for rope bondage, blindfolding, gags, suspension, forced poses, and photographic display. The later pages reflect on props, lighting, spectatorship, and changing fetish imagery.

  21. The Glamorous Lady by Chusaku Kiyama
    186
    Summary

    An illustrated narrative and visual essay about female dominance, male submission, bathing, colored water, mirrors, bondage, humiliation, photography, and fetish performance. Its internal scenes include staged models, a crushed little man, packing, and the cicada on the big tree.

  22. Awaiting the Summons of Lady Chizuyo Takahashi by Yuji Mitsubayashi
    201
    Summary

    A one-page confession of service to a dominant woman, framed by obedience, domestic discipline, bondage, and a formal pledge surrendering personal autonomy. A photograph reinforces the contract-like text.

  23. A Study of Excretory Play
    202
    Summary

    A serial study of excretory play combining commentary with a long photographic case sequence. It discusses toilets, enemas, urine, defecation, nudity, humiliation, restraint, photographic direction, and the ambiguous boundary between performance and coercion.

  24. Curio Salon
    236
    Summary

    A broad miscellany of short reader reports, fetish essays, correspondence, visual rankings, film commentary, and photographic sales catalogues. Topics include hotel play, teasing, rubber, pregnancy, scatology, chastity belts, marital SM, bondage in film, and mail-order image collections.

  25. Readers’ Correspondence: Tankibo by Various readers and correspondents
    202
    Summary

    A substantial correspondence department in which readers discuss SM, bondage, cross-dressing, fetish clothing, photography, clubs, relationships, and reactions to earlier issues. Letters from across Japan demonstrate a geographically dispersed participatory community.

Highlights

  • The opening photographic portfolio presents an extensive sequence of staged bondage, gagging, suspension, humiliation, and forced posing, including the contents-listed beauty in handcuffs and leg irons. (PDF pp. 5–21).
  • How I Dominate Me combines a first-person male memoir with repeated photographic demonstrations of restraint, discipline, gagging, and staged display. (PDF pp. 22–29).
  • SM Corporation begins a serialized fictional world of criminal organization, captivity, interrogation, and coercive training. (PDF pp. 38–47).
  • Recollections: Portraits of Pregnant Women is a sustained autobiographical and photographic meditation on pregnancy, childbirth, maternal bodies, and visual culture. (PDF pp. 122–133).
  • European Pornography Travelogue surveys European sex shops, clubs, films, magazines, live shows, censorship, and the commercial organization of sexual entertainment. (PDF pp. 150–161).
  • The Tenjin Festival feature uses Osaka festival imagery as the setting for an extended sequence of rope bondage, suspension, blindfolding, gags, and photographic spectatorship. (PDF pp. 164–185).
  • The serial study of excretory play combines prose analysis with a large photographic case sequence involving toilets, enemas, humiliation, and staged bodily performance. (PDF pp. 202–235).
  • The final pages document an active reader community through correspondence, classified exchanges, photographic catalogues, submission notices, and editorial afterword material. (PDF pp. 256–276).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: