The computations are accurate it’s the criteria that needed help.
There were others who were much more popular that didn’t make the cut at all. There were models who had stopped working that made the list. But even at the time, I questioned the results. He even recruited me for the nifty graphic. My predecessor here at The Sword spent a lot of time compiling his list. The next thing will tackle is cleaning up the list and removing the non-working models and make sure your favorites are included: watch this blog! The new time frame will be Januto the present day.Īgain, your thoughts and input are encouraged. One point can be awarded for every vote you award the model you feel has best grooming and enthusiasm.ĥ) Industry ( Cybersocket Web Awards, The Prowler Awards, The Grabbys, The Xbiz Awards) award achieved during 2016 to present.Ħ) The original list was compiled in mid-2015. We can, however, put up a semi-final list in terms of a poll that would encompass those factors.
And everyone has their own opinions on that. While not without merit, there is no universal standard – what works for one model doesn’t work for another.
One point for every scene releasedģ) Number of posts on the major gay blogs – 1 point each: the question that will roll-over is in addition to The Sword, which blogs to includeĤ) The ink/tat/shaving are subjective.
There were some good ideas and a general consensus about quite a few things.ġ) Social media: A point if they use it, no points if they don’t – that way no one is penalized is their studio prevents them, someone reported them and their account was terminated etc.Ģ) Number of scenes released: this will give an even playing field to both exclusives and free agents. The yellow squares are ripe to be ’86’d.Īnd there are many to take their place: Jack Harrer, Calvin Banks, JJ Knight, Woody Fox, Bruce Beckham, Alex Mecum, Markie More, and Gabriel Cross come to mind, for example. This article explores a critical moment of going bareback in the career of arguably the biggest gay porn performer of the 2010s, Johnny Rapid.The graphic below has the originals 50 models. The analysis reveals a decidedly negative reception of Rapid, the promotion of bareback as event, and the quality of the bareback performance itself, all of which I read in accordance with what these narratives have to tell us about bareback at the time. Yet I also take the opportunity-writing several years after this critical moment in Rapid’s career-to reflect on the success of the campaign. I read the case study in line with the concept of time, which has particular resonance with bareback. Through this reflection, I arrive at the conclusion that the time was right for an aging twink performer to be freshened-up by a transition to bareback-similar transitions of which have become widespread across the gay porn landscape in the intervening years between the 2015 Johnny Rapid Goes Bareback event and the present day, thanks in no small part to advancements in HIV prevention technologies. Johnny Rapid began his porn career at the start of the 2010s as a fresh-faced 18-year-old, shooting scenes with Boys First Time and Bukkake Boys before signing with Men as an exclusive and releasing his first scene in November 2011. At time of writing, toward the close of the last decade (November 2018), Rapid was just five scenes short of his 200th scene with the studio, and while his age was beginning to count against him, remained a major player-ranked Men’s “most liked” performer with more than 6,800 audience ‘thumbs up’.
Footnote 3 Rapid’s success in 2018 appears to have been buoyed by his highly publicized bareback debut a few years earlier (in 2015, in a series known as Johnny Rapid Goes Bareback), which forms the focus of this article and raises questions that are still relevant at time of revision and publication (in June/July 2021).įootnote 1 He was also named as the second most searched for gay porn star in Pornhub’s 2017 “Year in Review” annual analytics report (beaten to the top spot by relative new-comer William Seed, also a Men exclusive) Footnote 2 and was the 2017 recipient of Str8UpGayPorn’s Best Gay-4-Pay Performer award.