Johnny Rapid
{{short description|American pornographic actor (born 1992)}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2024}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox adult biography
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| birth_name = Hylan Anthony Taylor
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1992|08|26}}
| birth_place = Conyers, Georgia, U.S.
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| children = 2
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| years_active = 2010–present
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| website = {{Official URL}}
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Hylan Anthony Taylor (born August 26, 1992), better known by his stage name Johnny Rapid, is an American gay pornographic film actor.{{Cite web |last=Jeffries |first=Gabby |date=2015-01-21 |title=Johnny Rapid arrested after alleged fight with girlfriend over threesome |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2015/01/21/gay-porn-star-johnny-rapid-arrested-after-alleged-fight-with-girlfriend-over-threesome/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US}} Since 2010, he has appeared in over 200 pornographic scenes for Men.com studio, and now runs his own website.
Early life
Hylan Anthony Taylor was born on August 26, 1992,{{Cite web |title=portal-garockdale.tylertech.cloud/JailSearch/JailingDetail.aspx?JailingID=4658125 |url=https://portal-garockdale.tylertech.cloud/jailsearch/ |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/httpsportal-garockdale.tylertech.cloudjailsearchjailingdetail.aspxjailingid4658125 |archive-date=2024-03-23 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=portal-garockdale.tylertech.cloud}} in Conyers, Georgia, near Atlanta.{{Cite web |last=Ríos |first=José Manuel |date=2024-03-21 |title=Prison Shower: Qué sucedió con actores de película gay explícita |url=https://www.homosensual.com/lgbt/gay/prison-shower-actores-pelicula-gay-explicita-rafael-alencar-johnny-rapid/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=Homosensual |language=es-MX}}
As a teenager, he was a car enthusiast, and a boxer.{{Cite web |last=Fap |first=Thomas |date=July 31, 2016 |title=Johnny Rapid : l'hétéro qui a couché avec le plus de gays au monde ! |url=https://www.lavoixdux.com/2016/07/31/johnny-rapid-lhetero-qui-a-couche-avec-le-plus-de-gays-au-monde/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828084954/https://www.lavoixdux.com/2016/07/31/johnny-rapid-lhetero-qui-a-couche-avec-le-plus-de-gays-au-monde/ |archive-date=August 28, 2018 |access-date=July 26, 2020}} He graduated from Rockdale County High School in 2010, where he was a member of the school's wrestling team.{{Cite web |date=January 18, 2015 |title=Gay porn star, Newton resident arrested after assaulting girlfriend |url=https://www.covnews.com/rockdale-archives/gay-porn-star-newton-resident-arrested-after-assaulting-girlfriend/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725232933/https://www.covnews.com/rockdale-archives/gay-porn-star-newton-resident-arrested-after-assaulting-girlfriend/ |archive-date=2023-07-25 |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=The Covington News}}{{Cite web |last=Fils |first=Manny |date=2009-01-19 |title=Bulldogs finish in 3rd place at state duals Wrestlers come back from early 16-0 hole |url=https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/bulldogs-finish-in-3rd-place-at-state-duals-wrestlers-come-back-from-early-16-0/article_3174435c-5f12-573a-97c1-4301b0bfcb16.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323164139/https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/bulldogs-finish-in-3rd-place-at-state-duals-wrestlers-come-back-from-early-16-0/article_3174435c-5f12-573a-97c1-4301b0bfcb16.html |archive-date=2024-03-23 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=Rockdale Citizen & Newton Citizen |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Archive |date=2009-05-29 |title=Pinning a pair of wins |url=https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/pinning-a-pair-of-wins/article_24056382-44ba-5502-84f7-24527d5a5539.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322212406/https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/pinning-a-pair-of-wins/article_24056382-44ba-5502-84f7-24527d5a5539.html |archive-date=2024-03-22 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Rockdale Citizen & Newton Citizen |language=en}}
When he was 16–17, he got his girlfriend pregnant, who then gave birth to their daughter.{{Cite web |last=James |first=Michael |date=2024-03-09 |title=Gay Porn Star Johnny Rapid Opens Up About His Past |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/gay-porn-star-johnny-rapid-opens-up-about-his-past/229123 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=Star Observer |language=en-US}}{{Citation |title=Johnny Rapid Interview (Prison, Consent, and The Adult Industry) |date=2021-07-29 |work=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSzIq43D_E&t=817s |access-date=2024-03-23 |publisher=Reno Gold |language=en}}
At 18 years of age, he lost his job in the middle of summer, and decided to act in porn films to make money quickly.
Career
Rapid started his pornography career with Boys First Time and Bukkake Boys studios. He then signed with Men.com as an exclusive, and released his first scene with them in November 2011.{{Cite journal |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |date=2022-02-01 |title=Going Bareback: Time and Aging in a Gay-for-Pay Porn Career |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09897-8 |journal=Sexuality & Culture |language=en |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=373–396 |doi=10.1007/s12119-021-09897-8 |issn=1936-4822 |pmc=8286046 |pmid=34305388 |via=Springer}}
He has starred in a documentary called I'm a Porn Star (2013), in which he talks about his life as a porn star, also describing his fantasies of rough sex and fast cars.{{Cite book |last=Mercer |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-mKDwAAQBAJ&q=Johnny+Rapid |title=Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity |date=2017-03-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78672-091-7 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Paul G. |date=2020-04-09 |title=Girl's Shoes in Gay Pornography |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/4/9/girls-shoes-gay-porn/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}{{Cite web |date=2014-02-10 |title=Johnny Rapid Discusses Family, Car Fetish in I'M A PORN STAR |url=https://www.queermenow.net/blog/johnny-rapid-im-a-porn-star/ |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=QUEER ME NOW |language=en-US}} Rapid won the Cybersocket Web Award for Best Pornstar in 2014.{{Cite web |last=Street |first=Sharan |date=2014-01-28 |title=2014 Cybersocket Web Awards Announced AVN |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/technology/2014-cybersocket-web-awards-announced-549877.html |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=AVN}}
In January 2015, Rapid publicly offered $2 million to Canadian singer Justin Bieber to shoot a pornographic scene with him.{{Cite magazine |last=Lynch |first=Joe |date=2015-01-15 |title=Justin Bieber Offered $2 Million to Do Gay Porn |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/justin-bieber-offered-2-million-gay-porn-6443431/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}} The singer never answered. Rapid went on to play Bieber in a gay porn parody by Men.com.{{Cite news |last=Tharrett |first=Matthew |date=September 26, 2018 |title=Gay Porn Star Who Offered Justin Bieber $2 Million For Sex Will Play Him In "Pop Star" Parody |url=http://www.newnownext.com/gay-porn-justin-bieber-johnny-rapid/09/2016/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702072523/http://www.newnownext.com/gay-porn-justin-bieber-johnny-rapid/09/2016/ |archive-date=July 2, 2020 |access-date=June 29, 2020 |publisher=NewNowNext}} He also played the role of Ash Ketchum in Men.com's gay porn parody of Pokémon Go in 2015,{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Curtis M. |date=2016-09-01 |title=The Gay Pokémon Go Porn Parody You Didn't Know You Wanted Is Here |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pok%C3%A9mon-go-gay-porn-parody_n_57c85cb1e4b078581f119ec8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908160325/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pokémon-go-gay-porn-parody_n_57c85cb1e4b078581f119ec8 |archive-date=2023-09-08 |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=HuffPost |language=en}} and the Flash in parodies of The Flash and Justice League{{Cite book |last=Peppard |first=Anna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XoEEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Johnny+Rapid%22&pg=PA280 |title=Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero |date=2020-12-08 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-1-4773-2163-8 |language=en}} released by Men.com in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
In 2017, he was one of the most sought after actors on Pornhub in the gay porn category.{{Cite web |date=January 9, 2018 |title=2017 Year in Review – Pornhub Insights |url=https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2017-year-in-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726155106/https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2017-year-in-review |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |access-date=August 2, 2018 |website=www.pornhub.com}} Partnering with Men.com in 2019, he launched a new website "JohnnyRapid.com" devoted entirely to him.{{Cite web |last=Knowles |first=Betty |date=2019-11-22 |title=New Site Launches from Johnny Rapid AVN |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/gay/new-site-launches-from-johnny-rapid-854743.html |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=AVN}} By April 2021, Rapid's prolific pornographic film work included doing 300+ scenes with over 180 different male pornographic actors.{{Cite web |date=February 1, 2020 |title=Countdown To 200 Cocks: Here Is The Complete List Of Every Single Man Who Has Fucked Johnny Rapid |url=https://str8upgayporn.com/johnny-rapid-gay-porn-cocks/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101155713/https://str8upgayporn.com/johnny-rapid-gay-porn-cocks/ |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |access-date=27 October 2020 |website=Str8upgayporn.com}}
He made his debut in both bisexual and straight porn in 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-22 |title=Gay Porn Star Johnny Rapid Makes Straight Porn Debut |url=https://www.queermenow.net/blog/johnny-rapid-straight-porn-debut-gay-porn-star/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=QUEER ME NOW |language=en-US}}
Joseph Brennan has written a paper titled Going Bareback: Time and Aging in a Gay-for-Pay Porn Career discussing the event of Johnny— "arguably the biggest gay porn performer of the 2010s"— making his bareback debut in 2015, focusing on Str8UpGayPorn’s coverage of Rapid.{{Cite web |last=Zach |date=2021-09-08 |title=U.S. Government Publishes NIH Research Paper Analyzing The Effects Of Johnny Rapid's Bareback Debut On His Career As An "Aging Twink" |url=https://str8upgayporn.com/johnny-rapid-bareback-debut-gay-porn/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |work=STR8UPGAYPORN }}
Personal life
= Arrest for battery =
In December 2014, Rapid was arrested in Rockdale County, Georgia, and charged with battery for allegedly hitting and choking his girlfriend after she refused to participate with him in a sexual act with a 14-year-old girl.{{Cite news |date=2015-01-08 |title=Gay porn star, Newton resident arrested after assaulting girlfriend |url=http://www.rockdalenews.com/archives/21637/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150808031013/http://www.rockdalenews.com/archives/21637/ |archive-date=2015-08-08 |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=The Rockdale News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Hennie |first=Matt |date=January 20, 2015 |title=Gay Atlanta porn star arrested for battery |url=https://www.projectq.us/gay-atlanta-porn-star-arrested-for-domestic-violence/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022025101/https://www.projectq.us/gay-atlanta-porn-star-arrested-for-domestic-violence/ |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |website=Project Q}}{{Cite web |last=Hennie |first=Matt |date=January 22, 2015 |title=Gay Atlanta porn star says arrest a bunch of 'lies' |url=https://www.projectq.us/atlanta/gay_atlanta_porn_star_says_arrest_a_bunch_of_lies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303072026/http://www.projectq.us/atlanta/gay_atlanta_porn_star_says_arrest_a_bunch_of_lies |archive-date=March 3, 2019 |access-date=July 26, 2020 |website=Project Q}}
According to Gay Star News, Rapid's girlfriend later contacted the officer writing the report in an "attempt to get [him] to forget the whole thing, that she's lying, that she made the whole thing up."{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=Joe |date=2015-01-20 |title=Gay porn star Johnny Rapid arrested after 'attempted threesome with 14-year-old girl' |url=http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-porn-star-johnny-rapid-arrested-after-attempted-threesome-14-year-old-girl200115 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121235517/http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-porn-star-johnny-rapid-arrested-after-attempted-threesome-14-year-old-girl200115 |archive-date=2015-01-21 |website=Gay Star News}}{{Cite web |last=St. Amand |first=Jason |date=2015-01-20 |title=Porn Star Johnny Rapid Wants Bieber, But May Get Jail Instead {{!}} EDGE United States |url=https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/170594 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=EDGE Media Network |language=en}}
= Sexuality and family =
Discreet about his private life, Rapid previously defined himself as heterosexual and thus a gay-for-pay actor; however, in 2024 he came out as bisexual.
Rapid has been married to a woman, and has a daughter and a son.{{Cite web |last=Karr |first=John F. |date=2014-10-07 |title=Behind the booty |url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=arts_&id=224512 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323150522/https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=arts_&id=224512 |archive-date=2024-03-23 |website=Bay Area Reporter}}
In March 2024, he posted a video on Instagram talking about his past. He revealed that he grew up in a broken home, where his mother was on drugs and his father was in jail, so his grandmother took him in. Addressing his arrest, he confessed that he was in an abusive relationship. He mentioned that he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, went to anger management and cognitive behaviour therapy, and started taking medication for ADHD and depression. He talked about struggling with his sexuality, how he refused to admit that he was attracted to both men and women. He also mentioned that he was in a polyamorous relationship.
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
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- [https://www.iafd.com/person.asp?perfid=johnnyrapid&gender=m&johnny-rapid.htm Johnny Rapid] at the Internet Adult Film Database
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