In 1914, Kazue OTAKE, a former member of the Seito-sha (The Bluestocking Society), launched a magazine titled Saffron (1914-1915). The magazine was a doujinshi (coterie magazine) with six female co-editors, and it was unintentionally discontinued after a total of six issues. Despite its short life span, the magazine carried many works on the theme of lesbianism, which were rare in its contemporaries. In this paper, I analyze three works about female same-sex love in the magazine Saffron and discuss the arguments for same-sex love that appear in them in connection with contemporary discourse. Around 1913, when the "new women" symbolized by Seito-sha became a "social concern," the issue of same-sex love among the "new women" was widely covered by the press. These texts deny or reject the physicality of female same-sex love, which was regarded as a problem at that time, and present a new pattern of intimacy as the ideal of same-sex love, which is described as spiritual affection between female intellectuals. Furthermore, the ideal same-sex love was linked to women's liberation, and its social value was found in a positive contribution to the feminist movement. Saffron's arguments for same-sex love, which regard it as spiritually valuable, inevitably include the risk of desexualizing lesbianism. However, given the state of discourse at the time when the physical aspect of same-sex was a major issue, it appears to be an unavoidable choice for lesbianism recognition. Although Saffron was discontinued after only six issues, its ideals of lesbianism have not ceased. It was taken over by female writers such as Nobuko YOSHIYA through the translation of Edward Carpenter done by Saffron members.