Kitan Club
October 1974
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 10
- PDF pages
- 171
Summary
The October 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader-oriented SM essays, and discussions of technique and fantasy. The front section is dominated by photographs of women in rope bondage, ranging from simple first-binding poses to gags, suspension, breast bondage, floor restraint, paired models, and more elaborate positional compositions. Several models are identified individually, and photographer Tsukamoto Tetsuzō receives prominent credit. The portfolio moves from monochrome studies into color plates, establishing rope, posture, embarrassment, and the photographed body as the issue’s central visual vocabulary.
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Table of Contents 18 items
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Image Gallery
Summary
A photographic portfolio presenting staged erotic scenes of women in Japanese-style rope bondage, including floor restraints, partnered binding, gagging, blindfolding, and suspension.
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The Flavor of Masochism Seeping Out
Summary
Arita Yoshitada reflects on photographs of Fujita Akiko, praising their unpolished, intensely authentic quality and interpreting her concealed face, exposed body, and apparent restraint as expressions of deeply felt masochistic desire.
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Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen
Summary
A photographic erotic reportage follows a trip to Echizen, where the author arranges and documents an extended series of staged kinbaku scenes involving a nude female model, travel settings, domestic interiors, rope restraints, and varied poses and techniques.
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Again: Black Breasts
Summary
Suwa Ōji Ken revisits the reception of “Black Breasts,” reflecting on editorial responses, reader expectations, authorial self-criticism, and the tension between experimental erotic writing and commercially acceptable material.
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Female Prisoner
Summary
A serialized captivity narrative follows a female prisoner subjected by guards to prolonged restraint, forced feeding, physical punishment, humiliation, and increasingly elaborate bondage while staff and supervisors treat her suffering as institutional routine.
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Becoming Lady Sayoko's Toilet
Summary
This first-person erotic fantasy depicts a male submissive who becomes Lady Sayoko’s personal toilet, accepting degrading bodily service and escalating commands within a relationship structured by female authority, fetishized waste, and humiliation.
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Great Eruption
Summary
A serialized erotic SM fiction follows Queen Meri as she exerts cruel control over an English couple through interrogation, bondage, gagging, forced positions, and other humiliating punishments. The narrative emphasizes coercive power, female authority, and elaborate staged scenes, and concludes as an unfinished installment.
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Memories of My Wife and Enemas
Summary
A first-person memoir describes a wife’s recurring enemas and the couple’s eroticized domestic routines, including specialized equipment, restraint, bodily preparation, and the narrator’s growing interest in the practice.
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Muddy Sea of Folly
Summary
This installment of a serialized SM novel follows illustrator Iwemi as his relationship with Ginko and the manipulative Sasaki escalates into coercion, financial leverage, staged erotic photography, physical punishment, and repeated humiliation, eventually reversing conventional gendered power expectations through male submission.
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The Gate of Purple Orchids
Summary
A serialized historical erotic novel set in the Edo period follows the sadistic abuse, restraint, humiliation, and sexual exploitation of Masako by Kuroba and other men, blending melodramatic intrigue with elaborate bondage scenes.
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From Flower and Snake
Summary
An essay examines the film adaptation and erotic imagery of Flower and Snake, discussing its staging, atmosphere, bodily display, and psychological implications before turning to a first-person account of attending an SM research meeting and reflecting on contemporary SM interests.
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Conversation on a Rainy Night
Summary
A first-person account of a rainy-night encounter describes a woman’s bondage, sensory restriction, embarrassment, and psychological response, accompanied by photographs and related reflections on masochistic experience.
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A Wonderful Person to Me
Summary
The author reflects on his admiration for a woman associated with SM publishing and imagery, combining personal confession with discussion of her character, sexuality, illness, and the emotional meaning of their relationship.
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Two Scarlet Peonies
Summary
An erotic narrative follows a married couple and a female partner through an elaborate rope-bound photographic session, emphasizing marital intimacy, negotiated submission, and the aesthetic staging of bondage.
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Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment
Summary
Ogura Yūki presents pregnancy photographs and commentary framing the exposed, bound, and visibly pregnant female body as an object of fascination, shame, and humiliation within fetish publishing.
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Palm-Fiber Rope Story
Summary
A fictional bondage narrative follows a captive woman subjected to elaborate palm-fiber rope restraints, interrogation, corporal punishment, and escalating sadistic control.
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Waiting by the West Window
Summary
Arao Keiko’s confessional account describes widowhood, sexual vulnerability, and coercive encounters involving shaving, bondage, photographic display, and humiliating control by men outside her marriage.
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Genealogy of Torture Illustrations
Summary
This illustrated essay traces the author’s fascination with images of women being restrained, punished, tortured, or humiliated, combining autobiographical memories and sexual-psychological reflection with discussions of historical Chinese and Japanese punishments, bondage scenes, and erotic visual conventions. It also considers how childhood experiences, dreams, family imagery, and medicalized views of the body shape fantasies of female suffering and restraint.
Highlights
- The extensive front image gallery presents multiple models in first-binding poses, gags, suspension, breast bondage, floor ties, paired bondage, and color rope studies, creating a visual catalogue of contemporary kinbaku practice. (PDF pp. 3–26).
- Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō combines travel narrative, SM-subculture reportage, collecting, participant conversation, and an extended bondage photography session with Hori Kiyoko. (PDF pp. 28–61).
- Again: Black Breasts explicitly returns to the magazine's recurring interest in M-women and combines personal recollection with masochistic fantasy. (PDF pp. 62–65).
- Female Prisoner, installment 8 of the M Group's collaborative work, develops a female-dominant captivity scenario and represents the issue's organized group-produced fiction. (PDF pp. 66–77).
- Becoming Lady Sayoko's Toilet is a first-person humiliation confession centered on servitude and bodily-function fetishism. (PDF pp. 78–81).
- Great Eruption reaches its seventy-second installment, illustrating the extraordinary longevity of Kitan Club's serialized erotic fiction. (PDF pp. 82–89).
- Conversation on a Rainy Night documents attendance at an SM Research Society meeting and contributes direct evidence of organized enthusiast culture. (PDF pp. 127–137).
- Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment combines pregnancy imagery with themes of exposure, embarrassment, bondage, and bodily vulnerability. (PDF pp. 150–153).
- Palm-Fiber Rope Story treats rope material itself as a specialist subject, reflecting the magazine's technical and fetishistic attention to binding implements. (PDF pp. 154–159).
- Genealogy of Torture Illustrations closes the surviving main text with a historical and visual-cultural discussion of representations of women being tormented. (PDF pp. 164–171).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
