SM Select SMセレクト
Tokyo Sanseisha's monthly SM magazine (1970–1990), credited with starting the 1970s wave of SM titles, where the name Nureki Chimuo first appeared in print.
SM Select was a monthly magazine from the Tokyo publisher Tokyo Sanseisha. Its start is dated slightly differently by each source: the historian Kawahara Azumi gives November 1970, Japanese Wikipedia’s list of the publisher’s magazines gives January 1971 (while its history section says 1970), and the official Dan Oniroku chronology places it in 1971. The same Wikipedia list says it ran until June 1990.
Japanese Wikipedia credits the magazine with starting the boom in SM magazine launches of the early 1970s. Dan Oniroku’s official chronology says it passed 100,000 copies in 1972, by which time SM magazines were sold openly in ordinary bookshops, and that Dan wrote for it alongside its rivals. Tokyo Sanseisha later founded a literary prize in his name.
The magazine is also a landmark in rope history. Kawahara, drawing on the memoir of founding staff member Senda Hiroshi, writes that Suma Toshiyuki (Minomura Kō) first tied for its bondage photo shoots; when he moved to the rival S&M Collector, Senda turned to Iida Toyoichi. Iida’s report on a 1972 shoot, printed in the February 1973 issue, was the first text signed Nureki Chimuo, and by 1974 he was tying for the magazine about four times a month. A sister title, Shōsetsu SM Select, closed in November 1987.