Japanese erotic torture - 🧡 Suspension, Torture, and the Roots of Japanese Erotic Bondage

Based on a folktale about an onibaba demon hag who killed pregnant women to eat their fetuses, the piece is startling even today in its depiction of suspension and torture.

During the Edo period 1603-1868 , suspension was an officially accepted means of torture to extract confessions from suspected criminals.

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In 1921, he succeeded in suspending and photographing his heavily pregnant wife, Sahara Kise, who also modeled for many of his other sexual bondage and torture photographs.

Inada Kyuzo Shisuke: Woman Suspended from Rope, by Yoshitoshi 1867 source: yoshitoshi.

Japanese authorities banned the print shortly after its release.