Steven Wolfe (born December 31, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Sins, is an American
pornographic actor
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dist ...
, director, and
YouTuber
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Influence
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.
Sins is known for his shaved head and muscular physique. He is consistently among the most popular male talent pornography searches.
He has received many accolades for his work, including three
AVN Awards for Male Performer of the Year nominations as well as multiple nominations.
Sins has also been the subject of many
meme
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s across social media.
Early life
Sins was born Steven Wolfe
in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
,
on December 31, 1978.
He has described himself as "very shy" while growing up.
After graduating from the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a public research university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. As of fall 2021, the university enrolled 7,044 undergraduates and 1,865 postgraduates, for a total enrollment of 9,009 students. The univ ...
,
he got a job working six days a week in construction.
He noticed the early signs of
male pattern baldness
Pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia (AGA)) is a hair loss condition that primarily affects the top and front of the scalp. In male-pattern hair loss (MPHL), the hair loss typically presents itself as either a receding front ha ...
when he was around 24 years old, and has kept his head
shaved ever since. In 2006, at the age of 28, he quit his job and moved to Los Angeles to pursue the pornographic film industry full time.
Career
![Sins Logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Sins_Logo.png)
Sins' first pornographic endeavors were through
Craigslist
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Craig Newmark ...
ads.
Brazzers
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has described him as a "go-to guy" for the studio,
having performed in 1,054 scenes as of April 1, 2019.
He performed in about 2,300 videos in his career as a pornographic actor.
On June 10, 2015,
Pornhub
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launched a
crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crow ...
campaign through
Indiegogo to produce the first
adult film in space.
Sins and fellow actress Eva Lovia were slated to perform in the film.
If the project were successfully funded, the two would have received six months of rigorous preparation for the launch, including
zero gravity
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Weight is a measurement of the force on an object at rest in a relatively strong gravitational fie ...
, velocity, and temperature training.
When asked about the opportunity, Sins said, "It's beyond just doing it for the money, or the money shot for that matter. It's about making history."
The campaign raised $236,086 over 60 days, failing to reach its goal of $3.4 million.
In early 2017, Sins and pornographic actress Kissa Sins (his then-wife) launched their
YouTube
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channel SinsTV, which chronicles their day-to-day lives and features sex advice.
As of May 2021, the channel has accrued 1.73 million subscribers. A video of Sins trying out various Turkish snacks briefly became the top YouTube video in Turkey.
In July 2018, images of Sins alongside several other porn stars were painted on the side of a bus that traveled around
Kerala
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in India.
The
mural
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Word mural in art
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was part of a marketing campaign aimed to boost college tour rides.
Later that year, Sins received the award for Most Popular Male Performer by Women at the annual
Pornhub Awards
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,
for which winners were determined by users' streaming data.
As of mid-2020, Sins has stopped making porn videos for large scale studios but continues to produce content under his own production company. He has stated that he may return to working for the large studios in the future.
Personal life
Sins currently resides in Las Vegas. He was previously married to pornographic actress Kissa Sins.
They separated in 2019, but remain close friends.
In October 2017, a picture of Sins was tweeted by a user claiming he was missing after the
Las Vegas shooting.
The tweet was one of many viral hoaxes that emerged related to the shooting.
Awards and nominations
References
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1978 births
21st-century American male actors
American male pornographic film actors
American pornographic film directors
American pornographic film producers
American YouTubers
Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni
Internet memes
Living people
Male actors from Pittsburgh
Male adult models
American male bloggers
Male models from Pennsylvania
Video bloggers