Japan’s most popular gay porn star, Koh Masaki, passed away on May 18th at the age of 29. His death was announced by his partner, Tien Tien (aka Sky Liu), and was attributed to complications stemming from peritonitis. Masaki appeared in more than 100 porn movies since beginning his career in 2009. A gogo boy of international fame, the 100% gay and completely out Masaki became famous beyond his porn work in Japan after being featured in Ayumi Hamasaki’s music video, How Beautiful You Are, for the first male-on-male kissing scene in the Japanese music industry.

A gorgeous man who was unabashedly proud of his work as a porn star and model, his tragic death begs the question: how do you appropriately cover his passing, and career? The blogosphere is divided with some only posting G-Rated shots while others honor his legend with hard-core photos from his movies. It’s a tough call to make. Dead eye candy isn’t quite the turn-on you’d think it might be, but then glossing over the nudity for which he was so well known seems to dishonor his life too. I suppose Boo Hoo would be the definitive source for that call, but I’ll go with splitting the baby in half, and then post a seldom seen on this blog picture of a cute kitten (along with Koh and his life-partner).

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