Steven Wolfe (born December 31, 1978), better known as Johnny Sins, is an American adult film performer,

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, and

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. He is consistently among the most popular male talent

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searches and is known for his shaved head, muscular physique, and blue eyes, often considered a sex symbol as well. His accolades include multiple

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wins and nominees. He has been the subject of

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, which center on the large variety of occupations his pornographic characters have worked.

Early life

Sins was born Steven Wolfe in

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on December 31, 1978. His father used to work in a steel mill. He has described himself as "very shy" while growing up. After graduating from the

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, he began working in construction. When he was around 24 years old, he noticed that he had started

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, and has kept his head shaved ever since. In 2006, at the age of 28, he quit his job and moved to

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to pursue a career in the pornographic film industry full time.

Career

Sins' first pornographic endeavors were through

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has described him as a "go-to guy" for the studio, as he has performed in more than 1,000 of their scenes as of April 2019. On June 10, 2015,

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launched a

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campaign through

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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

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, velocity, and temperature training. 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 fellow porn star Kissa Sins launched their

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channel SinsTV, which chronicled their day-to-day lives and featured sex advice. Following their brief separation in 2019, Sins became the sole operator of the channel, which later focused on his

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s and

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s; as of January 2024, the channel has gained over 2.1 million subscribers and more than 109 million views. A video of Sins trying out various Turkish snacks briefly became the top YouTube video in

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. In 2018, Sins received the award for Most Popular Male Performer by Women at the annual

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, for which winners were determined by users' streaming data. He has been appearing in the mainstream scene occasionally since 2020. He shifted his main attraction focus to

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. As of March 2025, he has performed as a pornographic actor in almost 3,062 videos. He appeared in an Indian television advertisement for men's sexual health, parodying a popular Hindi television serial, with

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. Sins said he was not used to filming on a crowded set.

Image

Sins has been the subject of

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s about the number of jobs he has portrayed in porn, the most well-known being a

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and a

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Personal life

Sins resides in

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, and is married to fellow porn star Kissa Sins. They separated in 2019 for a brief period but reconciled in 2020. Both Kissa and Johnny found each other while working together in a

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and have since developed a strong relationship with each other. In October 2017, a picture of Sins was

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by a user who falsely claimed that Sins was missing in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting. The tweet was one of many viral hoaxes that emerged related to the shooting. In July 2018, as part of a marketing campaign aimed to boost college tour rides, a

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of Sins and several other porn stars was painted on the side of a bus driving around the Indian state of

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Awards and nominations

References

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