Johnny Soporno's Biography(Photos)

Johnny Soporno lives in Toronto for half the
year and divides the remainder between

Eventually, the unhealthy relationship ended

Amsterdam, Prague, Los Angeles, New York
City, and Miami. He’s a professional

and Soporno began the happy lifestyle he
enjoys to this day. But despite having a

management consultant, a lifestyle coach,
superintendent of the notorious Satan’s

naturally gregarious personality, Soporno
still had to dedicate himself to becoming

School for Girls, co-producer of a late-night
show covering the adult entertainment

more socially successful.

industry, and a crisis manager. He also
provides a role model for aspiring social

“I’ve always truly loved and appreciated
women, but this doesn’t mean I was always

artists who abhor the gym.

successful at actually seducing them,” he
says, “That came with hard work, trial and

“I have never been particularly ‘good
looking’ and have generally been between

error, braving rejections, modifying my
approaches.”

marginally overweight and clearly obese since
my teenage years,” Soporno says, “But I

He also underwent an intensive study program

always found it was much easier to be
attractive and interesting to women than it

that included psychology,anthropology,
socio-dynamics, transcendental meditation,

was to lose weight. If I hadn’t been as
effective with women, I would have shed all

neuro-linguistic programming, and other
“state-management” techniques.

my excess poundage two decades ago.”

While Neil Strauss’s The Game, Eric

However, Soporno now follows a healthier
lifestyle because life is “way too good to

Weber’s How to Pick Up Girls, and Iceberg
Slim’s Pimp provided valuable instruction,

let myself die young!”

Soporno’s transformation was also due to
thick skin, determination, field work, and

He found himself launching a more active
dating life when he was twenty. A jealous

honest self-evaluation. He remembers
“forcing myself to ignore all the

girlfriend objected to Soporno’s platonic
relationships with female friends. “Since I

ego-bruising of being blown off by a whole
city’s worth of unapproachable beauties,

had spent my life making friends with the
coolest and finest people I had met, I

and continually revisiting my mistakes… I
eventually learned on my own how to make

wasn’t able to dismiss all my
‘Y-chromosome-deficient’ friends simply

myself interesting and disarming,
approachable and inviting, and ultimately

because my live-in girlfriend said I had
to,” Soporno recalls, “So I began

pretty compelling.”

sneaking around to spend social time with
them behind her back. I realized that the

One of the ways Soporno makes himself
interesting is through the use of his

cost of this, if I was caught, was losing my
relationship-and that the cost of actually

trademark devil’s horns. Bright-red,
sizable, and proud, the devil’s horns are a