*Kitan Club was a sex magazine specializing in sadism, masochism, fetishism, etc., published from November 1947 to March 1975. Aimed at readers interested in sexual preferences that deviate from heterosexual norms, such as S&M and fetishism,

Kitan Club was not only a source of reading material but also an anonymous forum for written correspondence. Because it was a place for interaction among readers, it became one of the few communities of S&M enthusiasts before the rise of private S&M circles in the 1960s. Readers of the magazine also included Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Ranpo Edogawa, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and Shuji Terayama.