Japan seems to have no problem mixing disarmingly cute and utterly deprave. I mean, look at Higurashi. Well, in this case we have a book called Your Heart and Body Are My Plaything (Shintai mo Kokoro mo Boku no Mono). The subtitle, of course, is, "My first S&M Guide."

The guide is marketing itself as a way forc ouples to try and get closer to one another by exploring all the possibilities of an S&M relationship. Whatever your view on S&M might be, it certainly does bring the two people together -- there's a lot of trust involved in it, and if it hits you right, it can really bring you two together.

From some of the photos of pages, it goes into stuff like bondage, anal play, blindfolds, and all the other kinky stuff you'd find on those "alternative image boards." Of course, no guide would be complete without the cute, defenseless little girls illustrating all the topics they're talking about. Feel free to poke around the gallery over on Senaka Blog, as I'll spare you running into those images while you're at work.

What's a little disappointing, and I'm sure someone here will agree with me on this, but I'm surprised they don't tackle it from the other end, where the guy is the submissive one. I mean, it's certainly a common thing in their hentai manga and in stuff like Sundome.