There are not many guys in the porn industry that are instantly recognizable. If you are a woman that looks decent and regularly pumps out content, then you are probably going to have people seeking out your content. If you are a man? You are really just there to show off the women. That is why Rocco Siffredi stands out. This is one of the few male pornstars that people actually recognize. Let’s take a little look, shall we?
Who is Rocco Siffredi?
Rocco Siffredi is not his real name. Although, it is closer to his real name than most other porn stars out there. Rocco was actually born Rocco Antonio Tano in Ortona, Italy.
His porn career started when he was 21. In 1985, he was put in touch with a famous porn director and ended up starring in his first-ever porn film. Although, he didn’t stick around in porn for all that long. For some reason, he decided that he wanted to go off and be a model. This went on for a while, before the world of porn managed to lure him back in.
Rocco, apparently, managed to end up starring in a lot of porn movies over the years because of how many women wanted to work with him. Several people have claimed that Rocco managed to make some women comfortable enough to carry out performances they wouldn’t have done with any other actor. That and Rocco absolutely loved anal sex. Most of his movies feature that in some form. Check them out sometime.
In this time period, he has starred in well over 1,100 porn movies of various lengths. This means that he is one of the prolific male actors in the porn industry.
His Acting Style
One of the reasons people enjoy watching Rocco Siffredi porn movies is due to his overall acting style. As we said before; this is a guy that absolutely loves anal. Although, he has a personality to him that just draws people in. He is never over the top with his acting. It is very emotional and physical.
This means that the porn scenes he has starred in are going to be a whole lot more believable than your average porn scene. It is probably one of the main reasons why this guy has gone down as a legend. His style of porn is unlike any you have seen before. Hell, there has even been songs about the way in which Rocco acts. That is just how much he resonates with people.
Retirement from Porn Acting
Rocco has actually retired from porn acting a couple of times.
The first was back in 2004. At the time, he had just started to raise his own family. His wife had also acted in porn films (sometimes alongside Rocco), and he believed that this was not a great environment to raise children in. After all, which kid wants to know that their parents are heading to work to shag other people to pay the bills? You could probably get away with this when the children are younger but, as they get older, they are going to start asking questions.
The problem is that Rocco started to miss the world of porn. Not so much the income that he was making, but the actual sex part. When he retired from porn acting, he realized that he had a sex addiction. A serious one.
This sent him on a downward spiral where he started to sleep with a lot of people. While it was fine for him to be doing that when he was in porn, doing it outside of porn meant that he was cheating on his wife, and he was afraid to lose her.
After talking it through with his wife, he ended up back in the world of porn in 2009 and stayed as an actor in 2015. This is when he felt that he had ‘healed’ from his addiction enough, and he wanted to start building up the family with his wife. He has not acted since, and he is unlikely to ever act again based upon some of his more recent statements.
What is Rocco doing now?
It is hard to track down exactly what Rocco is doing. He seems to have retired from the public eye a little bit. No doubt because it is his way of ‘healing’ from his past. Obviously, we know that he is not acting in the world of porn now, and this is unlikely to ever happen.
We do know that Rocco has managed to dive into a bit of porn directing. While he hasn’t really directed anything major, we do know that a lot of the directing he has been doing has been focused on trying to find a new star like himself. Although, he has yet to find it. Although, let’s be honest, can you really find somebody that is better than this absolute porn legend? Rocco is a once in a generation type of person.
That being said, Rocco has managed to appear in several TV advertisements and reality shows. His name is such a big name, even outside the world of porn, that he has managed to gain gigs in these areas. Although, bear in mind that most of the work he has done in recent years has (mostly) been focused on the Italian markets. Although, he has also starred in a non-porn French movie or two. We doubt that he is going to venture beyond the Italian acting scene, to be honest.
Conclusion
Rocco Siffredi is a true porn legend. Even if you didn’t know him at the time, it is highly likely that you have seen a porn movie he has starred in. He is an absolute porn god of 1990s to early 2000s porn. While he is no longer performing, his name is one that you are going to see pop up for years and years to come. You can bet your absolute bottom dollar that if an Italian porn star becomes famous, he is going to draw almost constant parallels to Rocco Siffredi. Although, he is never going to live up to that legend status!
