SM Mania

September 2007

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Summary

SM Mania’s September 2007 issue is a large Japanese adult magazine organized around serialized erotic fiction, bondage photography, fetish illustration, reader participation, and commercial SM culture. Its formal contents pages appear near the front, followed by intense-color photographic portfolios and illustrated features before the issue settles into a long sequence of fiction and visual narrative. The publication’s editorial identity is emphatically transgressive, combining pulp storytelling with staged images of rope bondage, suspension, confinement, medicalized settings, voyeurism, humiliation, and fetish objects.

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The opening section includes the photographic portfolios Abusive/Disciplinary Infirmary, Sacred Prison of Love, and Obedient Female Body Deepening Theory, followed by galleries and illustrated features. Internet SM World documents an early-web ecology of international BDSM websites, image galleries, fetish communities, and commercial retailers. The issue also includes work by artists such as Namio Harukawa, Shirō Kasama, Akira Minomura, and Jukō Maeda. These visual sections shift between monochrome erotic drawing, staged photography, profile pages, and directory-style collages.

The central and later portions are dominated by serialized fiction. Stories such as Shura no Bisōka, Unrestrained Flesh, The Beast’s Trial of Love, Debauchery Like an Arrow, The Happiness of Flesh for Sale, Saffron’s Feminine Scent, Childhood Sex-Mania Syndrome, The Resting Place of the Stud Dog, and The Sexual Beast of the Bad Grove repeatedly use marriage, friendship, employment, hospitals, schools, criminal groups, and domestic life as frameworks for coercive fantasy. Many installments are illustrated with substantial plates, while several employ cameras, videotapes, tattoos, collars, ropes, cages, medical equipment, or animal metaphors as recurring devices of control.

Reader messages, submission solicitations, reader giveaways, model profiles, SM club notices, telephone-service advertisements, mail-order catalogs, and publication notices extend the issue beyond fiction. They document a participatory and commercial subculture in which readers supplied confessions, stories, photographs, and videos, while publishers sold magazines, DVDs, art books, equipment, and telephone-based services. The closing pages are publisher advertisements and a bondage-themed back cover, leaving the issue with a strong sense of SM Mania as both an erotic magazine and a networked publishing enterprise.

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Table of Contents 19 items
  1. Abusive/Disciplinary Infirmary
    3
    Summary

    A staged bondage-photography portfolio set in a school or infirmary-like environment, using chairs, desks, ropes, blindfolds, gags, stockings, and clinical props to construct a disciplinary visual scenario.

  2. Sacred Prison of Love
    11
    Summary

    A photographic bondage portfolio that shifts from rope restraint to elaborate suspension and inversion in a traditional Japanese room, emphasizing immobilization, exposed bodies, blindfolding, and staged helplessness.

  3. Namio Harukawa Aesthetic Gallery: Pleasure Beneath the Buttocks by Namio Harukawa
    19
    Summary

    A monochrome erotic illustration by Namio Harukawa, presented as a single-page aesthetic gallery item focused on explicit bodily display.

  4. The Wet Fleshly Marquis by Shirō Kasama
    23
    Summary

    An illustrated fetish feature combining red-accented monochrome drawing, restrained female figures, animalistic fantasy, and monstrous or coercive attendants. The sequence is pictorial rather than conventionally essayistic.

  5. Obedient Female Body Deepening Theory
    27
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presenting an obedient female body through rope restraint, fixed and suspended poses, wooden frames, candles, furniture, and assisted bondage tableaux.

  6. Internet SM World
    35
    Summary

    An illustrated directory of international BDSM websites, image galleries, fetish communities, and commercial resources. It combines Japanese descriptions, URLs, screenshots, and sample images, documenting early-web circulation of SM imagery.

  7. The Flight of the Sensual Beasts
    43
    Summary

    A continuing illustrated erotic sequence featuring staged bondage, group participation, domestic and social settings, and sequential visual storytelling with red and pink accents.

  8. Shura no Bisōka
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative involving a student, a teacher, and an older domestic figure, developing from voyeurism and stolen clothing into filming, restraint, exposure, humiliation, and shifting control within family and school relationships.

  9. Unrestrained Flesh by Kaiyō Kuride
    Summary

    A long erotic story about a reunion with an old friend’s wife that develops into adultery, voyeuristic fantasy, marital manipulation, bondage, filming, humiliation, and sadomasochistic escalation, accompanied by monochrome illustrations.

  10. The Beast’s Trial of Love
    Summary

    A serialized narrative in which Mutsuki is forced into a household marriage and trained as a so-called beast’s wife through collars, ropes, animal metaphors, domestic servitude, humiliation, and coercive sexual control.

  11. Debauchery Like an Arrow by Maki Kaori and Yamazaki Muhei
    Summary

    A serialized psychological erotic narrative set partly in hospitals and psychiatric institutions, involving sexual exploitation, surveillance, medication, humiliation, memory loss, confinement, and uncertainty about the boundary between trauma, fantasy, and reality.

  12. The Happiness of Flesh for Sale
    Summary

    A long illustrated narrative in which financial debt is used to pressure a university student into staged sexual encounters organized by a married couple. The story emphasizes commodification, spectatorship, restraint, humiliation, and scripted abuse.

  13. Saffron’s Feminine Scent by Hanakage Wataru and Sakihata Yūji
    Summary

    A continuing erotic narrative centered on Suiko and several men who watch, restrain, display, and sexually possess her. Jewelry, rings, ropes, clothing, bodily adornment, marriage, and artistic objectification structure the story’s recurring fetish imagery.

  14. Rope-Loving Kikkō Bondage by Hajime Watanabe
    251
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio of kikkō-style rope bondage, including rear binding, suspension, inverted and spread positions, gagging, restraint furniture, outdoor scenes, and a cage. Promotional captions frame the sequence as an escalating bondage performance.

  15. This Month’s Pleasure/Torment Angels
    267
    Summary

    A three-model photographic profile featuring Natsumi Izumida, Kiyomi Matsuura, and Minana Kinoshita, with portraits, measurements, biographical data, and eroticized descriptions linked to the issue’s color portfolios.

  16. SM Mania Reader Presents
    269
    Summary

    A reader-giveaway page offering bondage equipment, gels, vibrating devices, and adult videos while soliciting readers’ opinions about the issue’s stories and desired future features.

  17. Childhood Sex-Mania Syndrome by Kazuki Mikawa
    Summary

    A serialized hospital- and school-centered fiction about coercion, abuse of authority, voyeurism, blackmail, sexual exploitation, and the destructive consequences of unequal relationships. Later chapters connect private abuse with political influence, money, and corruption.

  18. The Resting Place of the Stud Dog
    Summary

    A continuing erotic novel involving Yukie and several men, structured around coercion, bondage, humiliation, jealousy, revenge, tattooing, forced nudity, and economic or social power. Its illustrations reinforce the narrative’s themes of captivity and ownership.

  19. The Sexual Beast of the Bad Grove by Ayame Yūki
    Summary

    A continuing fiction about a married woman subjected to confinement, forced filming, group domination, threats, humiliation, and repeated sexualized violence by men associated with a delinquent or criminal group. Cameras and videotape function as instruments of control and spectacle.

Highlights

  • The formal contents identifies the issue as SM Mania, September 2007, and lists its major fiction, photography, illustration, and community sections. (PDF pp. 21–22).
  • The opening color portfolios combine school and medical-room imagery, rope bondage, suspension, blindfolding, gags, and traditional Japanese interiors. (PDF pp. 3–19).
  • Internet SM World records an early-web directory of international BDSM image sites, communities, fetish resources, and commercial retailers. (PDF pp. 36–43).
  • The issue’s serialized fiction repeatedly merges coercive sexual fantasy with hospitals, schools, marriage, criminality, animalization, voyeurism, and commercial spectacle. (PDF pp. 53–384).
  • Akira Minomura’s SM Gallery provides a four-page grayscale bondage-illustration portfolio within the issue’s visual-art program. (PDF pp. 187–190).
  • The model-profile, submission, and reader-giveaway pages show how readers and performers were incorporated into the magazine’s editorial community. (PDF pp. 265–267).
  • The closing imprint and mail-order pages document monthly publication, nationwide bookstore distribution, publisher infrastructure, and associated adult books and DVDs. (PDF pp. 383–386).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: