History of SM Thought

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SMの思想史 : 戦後日本における支配と暴力をめぐる夢と欲望 (Japanese)

Description

The "History of SM Thought: Dreams and Desire Around Domination and Violence in Post War Japan" is an in-depth analysis of SM ideas in both Japan and the West through the lens of post-war adult magazines.

Author

Azumi Kawahara

Publication Dates

2024

Publishers and Editors

Seikyusha

Chapters

Introduction

Forward

Chapter 1: First generation magazines -- "Kitan Club," "Ningen Tankyu" and "Amatoria"

Chapter 2: Second generation magazines and censorship -- "Fuzoku Soshi" and later

Chapter 3: From illness to play -- the modernization and depathologizing of sadism

Chapter 4: The act of "confession" -- a movement of documenting one's sexual life

Chapter 5: Shin Azuma and Shozo Numa's dispute over pants and slacks

Chapter 6: Masochism and post-war nationalism -- Shozo Numa's "The Domesticated Yapoo"

Chapter 7: Livestock and the human body -- Soichi Doro's "Last Night's Devastation"

Chapter 8: Present day rejection of sex -- Yuko Furukawa's "Prisoner's Clothes" and masochistic love

Afterward

Interesting points

Azumi Kawahara is a lecturer of Fukuoka Women's University, International College of Arts and Sciences Department of International Liberal Arts, since 2020.