The Return of Tokyo Undressed

This is a really, really good thing.

Some of you may remember that back in early August I wrote a distressed post about two Japanese blogs that I’ve found particularly meaningful over the years, and how they had stopped updating after the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. Both Pink Tentacle and Tokyo Undressed each had made at least one intense update after the disasters, but then went dark.

In sex blogging, it’s quite common to see sex blogs come and go, no pun intended. In fact, among the very few of us still around after over a decade of sex blogging, we still have a hard time not taking it personally when sex bloggers pack up stuff we’ve linked to and loved, and leave us standing there with our metaphorical dicks (and our hearts) in our hands, looking at dead links left behind by people that didn’t get famous, got caught in their secret lives, were targeted by stalkers or bitter exes, used our linkjuice to try and ‘go straight’ and ‘become legitimate’ or broke up or ‘found God’ or whatever.

But obviously none of this was the case with Tokyo Undressed, and that made it even harder for me to accept its silence in so many ways. For me eros, art and creative love is life. It’s kind of spiritual. When these things go dark I feel like part of my heart is dying.

I’m so glad I checked the RSS tonight to see that the energy, brilliance, beauty and strangeness of Tokyo Undressed has returned. TODAY! I admire and adore Rikki Kasso, and to me Kasso’s return to the blog signals a bright and hopeful holiday and New Year for this San Francisco girl’s love and view of Tokyo. It’s been a painful and terrible year for so many of us. No more loss, tears or turmoil, please. Now go look at Tokyo Undressed and maybe feel like something finally turned out okay.