Tormenting Soft Skin
This installment of Kita Reiko's serialized Room of Pleasurable Cruelty follows the narrator's increasingly intimate sadomasochistic relationship with Taga-chan. The narrator reflects on loneliness, widowhood,…
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Sacher-Masoch’s Contract of Abuse
Mase Teruo presents Leopold von Sacher-Masoch as the historical source of the term “masochism” and interprets his literary career, marriages, and sexual relationships through a…
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New Styles of Torture
Kita Reiko proposes a distinctly modern, domesticized form of sadistic imagination built from mass-produced objects, clothing, medical technology, insects, and situations drawn from everyday life.…
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The Man’s Sadism and the Woman’s Love
Itojima Hiroshi presents this prize-winning first-person confession as a factual account of constructing a private sadistic life within and alongside an outwardly conventional marriage. He…
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Life Sentence
This confessional fiction presents a male narrator who understands his submission to two women as a permanent "life sentence." During a business trip, he encounters…
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The Spy’s Scattered Blossoms
A Cold War espionage melodrama set in colonial Hong Kong, the story follows merchant and intelligence operative Zhang Daocheng, who is seduced by nightclub dancer…
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How I Was Tormented
A first-person erotic anecdote in which the narrator receives Hamae, the sheltered daughter of a university professor, during a New Year’s visit. What begins as…
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The Bride Has Arrived
This illustrated comic-erotic story begins with a man and a café waitress, Kaoru, discussing a newspaper account of Chinese women allegedly kidnapped, confined in beer…
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The Woman Who Awakened My Sadistic Nature
Shima Shikō presents an autobiographical account of the woman he calls Chizuko, describing both her earlier sexual assault by a construction supervisor and the later…
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When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境)
Itō Seiu gives a compact autobiographical account of how his lifelong interest in depicting women under restraint began during adolescence. He recalls tracing newspaper illustrations,…
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Body-Odor Diary
A short first-person fetish narrative centered on the smell of a woman’s worn underwear. The narrator receives a soiled pair of panties from his absent…
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