Fuzoku Kitan
October 1961
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Issue Details
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Summary
The October 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around an unusually explicit special feature on same-sex desire, framed by extensive bondage photography, illustrated restraint fantasies, imported Western fetish material, erotic fiction, and reader correspondence. The opening gravure, The World of Bewitching Beauty: Women and Men, presents a sequence of staged female bondage photographs in traditional interiors and garden settings, emphasizing folded-body ties, post restraints, rope harnesses, tights, schoolgirl imagery, and architectural settings such as verandas and pillars. This is followed by Seven Scenes of Vehicle Torment, an illustrated fantasy portfolio that transfers bound women into amusement rides, helicopters, automobiles, boats, trucks, and cable cars, and then by a short Western photographic sequence of female domination.
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Table of Contents 14 items
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The World of Bewitching Beauty: Women and MenGravure
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Seven Scenes of Vehicle TormentPictorial
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Play GirlsPhotographic feature
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Homosexuality Is Not a Rebellion Against Nature
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Under the Fig Tree
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My Love Is Over
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The Spiritual Love of Lesbos and Techniques of Love
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Female Doctor Forced into Bondage
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The House of Iris and the Perverse Prostitute Belvera
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Wandering in Ecstatic Torment, Part 6: The Abnormal Crowd
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Reader Salon
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Fuzoku Kitan: Notices
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Agency Photograph List
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Publisher Information and Call for Reader Submissions
Highlights
- The opening gravure The World of Bewitching Beauty: Women and Men presents a long sequence of Japanese bondage photography using verandas, pillars, tatami rooms, gardens, tights, schoolgirl dress, and compact folded-body restraints. (PDF pp. 4–22).
- Seven Scenes of Vehicle Torment transforms modern transportation and amusement machinery into bondage scenarios, with women restrained on rides, helicopters, automobiles, boats, trucks, and cable cars. (PDF pp. 23–31).
- The issue's central special feature, Illustrated Desires of Men with Men and Women with Women, explicitly treats homosexuality and lesbianism as major subjects of erotic and psychological discussion rather than peripheral curiosities. (PDF pp. 35–64).
- Under the Fig Tree combines male homosexual fiction with illustrations and extended dialogue, making male-male desire one of the issue's principal narrative subjects. (PDF pp. 38–48).
- My Love Is Over explores female same-sex attachment through an extended narrative of attraction, intimacy, jealousy, and emotional separation. (PDF pp. 49–56).
- The Spiritual Love of Lesbos and Techniques of Love shifts from fiction toward a quasi-sexological discussion of lesbian identity, relationships, sexuality, and social experience. (PDF pp. 57–64).
- Female Doctor Forced into Bondage reproduces Western fetish illustrations centered on women binding, suspending, tormenting, and dominating other women. (PDF pp. 65–72).
- The House of Iris and the Perverse Prostitute Belvera uses European material to discuss sadomasochistic prostitution, female domination, and continental M/S culture. (PDF pp. 73–79).
- Wandering in Ecstatic Torment, Part 6: The Abnormal Crowd is a substantial later first-person narrative concerned with compulsive sexuality, encounters with strangers, shame, memory, and attempts to understand abnormal desire. (PDF pp. 80–92).
- Reader Salon collects questions and testimonies about homosexuality, masturbation, cross-dressing, bondage, sexual techniques, and fetish interests, documenting the magazine's active reader community. (PDF pp. 93–97).
Contributors
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