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Rocco Siffredi points to two reasons why he was inspired to create his first academy for women.
“Very simple,” Siffredi says. “First, because more and more porn belongs to woman, not only in front of the camera but also behind as producer, director and content creator.
“So let’s do something which involves all kind of girls—some porn stars and some girls came from only their first time in porn. Let’s try to figure out how this whole thing goes.”
The result is what is shaping up to be an epic first installment of Rocco Siffredi Hard Academy: Women Edition, which will debut this year on EvilAngel.com.
The AVN Hall of Fame superstar created an international buzz during the principal photography last summer over 10 eventful days in Budapest, Hungary.
“This is the first porn academy for women and we never had so much visibility on social media like this one—not double, not triple, maybe 50 times more than any academy with me. Everybody in Italy was talking about this academy,” Siffredi, who wrote and directed the reality-show style project, tells AVN.
He produced and directed seven editions of Hard Academy featuring men before this—beginning in 2016.
“Personally, I liked the fact that I decide to do this academy completely under my son’s point of view,” Rocco continues.
“He was the one who said we have to let the girls just have fun as they do in TikTok, as they do in normal life. Let’s not put too much pressure on them on them sexually. Let’s shoot them having fun and slowly switch into having sex.”
Siffredi’s eldest son, Lorenzo Tano, who took the reins of the iconic Rocco Siffredi Productions in the past year, captured the footage with the same raw energy as any reality-style competition show on network television. All the contestants lived together in a house while also competing in a series of lighthearted games.
“The girls had so much fun for the whole academy,” Rocco says, adding that eight of the 12 contestants—all of whom were Italian—decided to get tattoos commemorating their experience with watchwords that he teaches such as “irony,” “humble” and “passion.”
“And I didn’t ask them to do it,” he notes.
Siffredi explains that those three key words have been the foundation for some of the wisdom he tries to impart during each of his academies.
“I always say to the boys every time, be passionate—don’t take yourself too serious. Make joke of yourself, don’t take it too serious and be humble. Don’t think you know everything. Try to learn something. Those are three magic words to do this business for almost 40 years,” Rocco tells AVN.
“2025 I will be exactly 40 years in the business. For being in it so long, you have to have two out of three—or at least one out of the three.”
Siffredi explains that this edition of the academy provided the opportunity for his production team to fine-tune a live streaming experience that will be the primary format for all the future academies.
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