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.
I read the case study in line with the concept of time, which has particular resonance with bareback. 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. 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. When inmates were released from prison, they would join the megabanda roaming the country and engaging in criminal activities.This article explores a critical moment of going bareback in the career of arguably the biggest gay porn performer of the 2010s, Johnny Rapid. This has expanded to alcohol, drugs, and prostitutes.Ī system of extortion governed whether an inmate had a comfortable cell and access to supplies for visits and parties. Last September, Insight Crime reported that the power of megabanda prison gang leaders, known as “pranes”, has risen with these bosses overseeing a food and clothing network in the squalid jails. The men were negotiating the transport of 800kg of cocaine to New York.įollowing his 2013 election, President Maduro’s government created a special homicide police unit and the deployment of the armed forces to fight crime.īut it remains an uphill battle, with criminal organisations from Colombia, Brazil and Europe as well as homegrown groups all operating in Venezuela. In 2015, the two nephews of Venezuelas’s President Nicolas Maduro’s wife were arrested in Haiti in a sting by the US Drug Enforcement Agency. “Its long Caribbean coastline, sparsely populated jungles and plains and proximity to other Caribbean drug transit points like Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras and the Dominican Republic have also contributed to Venezuela becoming a major narcotics smuggling route,” Insight Crime reported.Ī relative cries outside prison in Barquisimeto, Venezuela where inmates die of drug overdoses in the crowded jail. Insight Crime described the shared border as “a hub of criminal activity” for drugs, human trafficking and money laundering. The New York Times has reported previously that drug traffickers can “make an airstrip on the flat prairie in a few hours by dragging a log behind a pick-up truck to smooth the ground”. Mexican drug cartels, if viewed as a combined entity, control most of the cocaine entering the US via a number of trafficking routes.Ī report last November by, an analysis group of Latin American organised crime, described Venezuela as “a key transit country” for drug shipments to the US and Europe. Last year, reported that Mexico was experiencing one of its worst moments in the field of drug trafficking, with authorities unable to keep up. In a decade of drug violence, about 26,000 have gone missing.
The cartels of Tijuana, Juarez and the Gulf have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Mexicans.