Fuzoku Kitan

The May 1960 cover announces a special issue devoted to homosexuality and pleasurable humiliation, pairing the theme with a staged erotic photograph of a woman.

A shunga-style illustration depicts an intimate encounter between two women aboard a boat, emphasizing privacy, voyeuristic absence, and the transgressive pleasure of being away from public eyes.

A shunga-style bathhouse illustration portrays erotic touching between women after bathing, using the private bathing space as a setting for same-sex intimacy.

A photographic feature contrasts a single male-designated tree with a female-designated avenue of trees, identified as scenes from gardens in Britain.

The formal contents page enumerates the issue’s essays, fiction, visual features, and special material concerning same-sex desire, sexual psychology, fetishism, and humiliation.

Hérouard’s two-panel erotic illustration depicts a woman swinging so that her skirt rises and her exposed body descends toward an entranced gentleman below.

An erotic illustration depicts a nude woman presented as a captured mermaid, bound with ropes among wooden beams and posed as an object of captivity.

This visual feature assembles erotic images of women alongside animals, drawing on both illustrative and photographic representations of human–animal fantasy and spectacle.

A photographic sequence shows a woman staged as a captured mermaid, repeatedly restrained with rope, gagged, and posed in submissive positions while awaiting further punishment.

A photographic portfolio depicts a nude woman in tightly bound poses, emphasizing full-body rope restraint and contorted positioning.

This photographic feature presents a woman being bound in a series of staged scenes, accompanied by text about desire, submission, whipping, abuse, and erotic intoxication.

A staged photographic sequence shows a woman in checked clothing tied and forced into painful, humiliating positions on the floor and against furniture.

A photographic portfolio presents a woman in lingerie bound with rope in a series of reclining, seated, and contorted poses, emphasizing the erotic visual appeal of restrained skin and bodies.

This photographic feature explores “chair torment” through staged scenes of a woman gagged and rope-bound to or around a chair in various strained positions.

A darkly poetic photographic vignette portrays a young “mermaid” captured in a fisherman-like net, bound so tightly that she discovers sensual pleasure beyond her former watery world.

A photographic feature depicting a woman subjected to staged restraint and pleasurable cruelty, emphasizing bound positions and the visual drama of domination.

An illustrated survey of erotic and allegedly abnormal sexual motifs in famous paintings, including seduction, coercion, voyeurism, and nude encounters drawn from classical art.

The May 1960 title page for Fuzoku Kitan, presenting the issue as a special feature edition devoted to erotic and sexological themes.

A sexological essay classifies forms of same-sex desire and discusses their psychological, bodily, behavioral, and social manifestations, including gendered presentation and relationships between male and female same-sex partners.

A first-person romantic memoir recounts the experiences of a feminine-presenting man, including his attraction to men, efforts to pursue relationships, and tensions between personal desire and social expectations.

Sensational reportage reconstructs how a homosexual youth’s romantic fixation, family isolation, emotional distress, and escalating plans culminated in the murder of several people, presenting the case through investigative detail and psychological interpretation.

A historical essay surveys same-sex desire among Warring States warriors, focusing on relationships between powerful warlords and their attractive male companions and using anecdotes about figures such as Oda Nobunaga, Mori Ranmaru, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

An erotic narrative about a head clerk centers on male-male anal desire, sexual pursuit, and the social tensions surrounding clandestine homosexual relations.

An erotic narrative follows two white-skinned women whose mutual attraction develops into explicit sexual intimacy, including restraint, spanking, and other disciplinary play, accompanied by illustrated scenes of their encounters.

An essay examines the erotic fetishization of pictorial representations, discussing idealized female imagery in Japanese art and the psychological response such images evoke in male viewers.

A biographical and literary discussion of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Venus in Furs explores the relationship between masochistic desire, female authority, and the written contract of marital abuse, including reconstructed contractual rules and their implications.

A first-person erotic narrative portrays an encounter with a commanding woman and a masochistic male partner, escalating through coercive sexual play, physical punishment, humiliation, and anal-focused acts.

A folkloric and historical survey of people who formed romantic relationships with ghosts and, in some accounts, married them, recounting supernatural unions and their tragic consequences across East Asian stories.

A sensational historical account of torture inflicted on women, describing interrogation, bodily abuse, humiliation, and sexualized violence through reported cases, documentary references, illustrations, and photographs.

A sensational historical feature on women’s self-disembowelment and forced or attempted seppuku, presenting several case narratives alongside discussion of the social, emotional, and bodily circumstances surrounding these deaths.

A sensational crime report surveys American cases in which women were abducted, sexually abused, tortured, and sometimes murdered by sadistic offenders, followed by discussion of investigations, trials, and punishments.

This illustrated study examines sexual tattooing across cultures and periods, discussing tattoos placed on or associated with sexualized parts of the body, their meanings, and their roles in erotic display and sexual psychology.

An erotic fictional narrative follows a tangled marriage in which a brother and sister exchange or assume bridal and groom identities, creating family confusion, coercive expectations, and sustained gender-role reversal.

A historical survey of Meiji-era sexual curiosities recounts sensational newspaper cases and popular erotic amusements involving prostitution, bathhouse and entertainer culture, illicit sexuality, and unusual crimes, illustrated with period images and clippings.

A sensational crime narrative follows a man whose obsessive desire for women culminates in sexual violence, murder, and the consumption of human flesh, blending investigative reportage with grotesque erotic imagery.

A dark erotic story depicts a married woman drawn into coercive sexual encounters and voyeuristic observation before her husband responds with humiliation, domination, and physical punishment.

A sensationalized historical account of Ottoman harem life, focusing on sultans, powerful favorites such as Roxelana, palace intrigue, sexual domination, and stories of confinement, violence, and execution.

A first-person fetish memoir centered on the erotic allure of belts, including scenes of spanking, restraint, voyeuristic observation, and humiliating domestic sexual play across wartime and postwar settings.

A sensational erotic murder-show narrative presented through staged interviews and dramatic scenes involving a woman on an operating table, knives, blood, screams, restraint, and repeated mock or imagined killings.

A sensational erotic narrative in which Kawasaki restrains Yaechiko and carves written messages into her skin with a razor, combining captivity, bodily punishment, and humiliating domination before the story’s criminal consequences unfold.

A dialogue-centered erotic story about newlyweds whose seemingly ordinary conversation exposes troubling sexual fantasies, forbidden desires, and the psychological tensions within their relationship.

A sensationalized criminal case history follows Fukiage Satarō from childhood and adolescent sexual misconduct through repeated assaults, abductions, murders, prison escapes, and eventual conviction, presenting his conduct as an abnormal sexual biography.